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BHAKTI |
Bhakti, in Hinduism, refers to devotion and the love of a personal god or a representational god by a devotee. Spread faith in the south.
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GITA GOVINDA |
A cycle of rhapsodic poems about the love between God and humans expressed metaphorically through the love between the young Krishna and the cowherd Radha.
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UNTITLED- YOUR GAZE HITS THE SIDE OF MY FACE
BARBARA KRUGER 1981 POSTMODERN ART |
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SPIRAL JETTY ROBERT SMITHSON 1970 EARTH ART |
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AUTUMN RHYTHM JACKSON POLLUCK 1950 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM |
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OBJECT (LUNCHEON IN FUR) MERET OPPENHEIM 1936 SURREALISM |
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COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE MARIANNE BRANDT 1924 CONSTRUCTIVISM (BAHAUS) |
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FOUNTAIN (READYMADE) MARCEL DUCHAMP 1917 DADA |
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IMPROVISATION 28 VASILY KANDINSKY 1912 EXPRESSIONISM |
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WOMEN FROM AVIGNON PABLO PICCASSO 1906 CUBISM |
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THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS AUGUSTE RODIN 1884-1889 LATE 19TH CENT FRENCH SCULPTURE |
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STARRY NIGHT VINCENT VAN GOGH 1889 POSTIMPRESSIONISM |
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IMPRESSION SUNRISE CLAUD MONET 1874 IMPRESSIONISM |
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OLYMPIA EDUARD MANET 1863 MID 19TH CENT FRENCH ART |
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A BURIAL AT ORNANS GUSTAVE COURBET 1849 REALISM |
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SNOWSTORM: HANNIBAL CROSSING THE ALPS TURNER 1812 ROMANTICISM |
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THIRD OF MAY GOYA 1814 ROMATICISM |
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OATH OF THE HORATII DAVID 1784 NEO-CLASSICISM |
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EXPERIMENT ON A BIRD IN AN AIRPUMP JOSEPH WRITE OF DERBY 1765 ROMANCE OF SCIENCE |
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CORNELIA POINTING TO HER CHILDREN AS HER TREASURES ANGELICA KAUFFMANN 1785 NEOCLASSICISM |
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PILGRIMAGE TO CYTHERA JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU 1717 ROCOCO |
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POWER FIGURE ANONYMOUS 19TH CENT ART OF AFRICA |
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MAORI MEETING HOUSE RAHARURI RUKUPO 1843 ART OF THE PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) |
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ZEN ROCK GARDEN ANONYMOUS 1480 JAPANESE |
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THE GREAT WAVE HOKUSAI 1831 JAPANESE EDO PERIOD |
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THE FORBIDDEN CITY ANONYMOUS 15TH CENT CHINESE ART (MING) |
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WHIRLING LOG CEREMONY HOSTEEN KLAH 1925 NATIVE AMERICAN |
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PYRAMID OF TENOCHTITLAN 1500 AZTEC ART |
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POET ON A MOUNTAIN TOP SHEN ZOU 1500 CHINESE ART |
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MARYLIN DIPTYCH ANDY WARHOL 1962 POP ART |
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO FRANK GEHRY DECONSTRUCTIVISM ARCHITECTURE 1993-1997 |
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MASQUERADE |
A party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
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DIVINATION |
the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. |
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DIVINER |
of, from, or like God or a god. |
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BISJ POLES |
Bisj poles can be erected as an act of revenge, to pay homage to the ancestors, to calm the spirits of the deceased and to bring harmony and spiritual strength to the community. |
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INCA MASONRY |
Able to fit the stones together without use of a filler.TheInka Integrated architecture into natural sites. |
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VIDEO & FILM |
artform which relies on moving pictures in a visual and audio medium. Video art came into existence during the late 1960s and early 1970s as new consumer video technology became available outside . Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast; installations viewed in galleries or museums; works streamed online, distributed as video tapes, or DVDs; and performances which may incorporate one or more television sets, video monitors, and projections, displaying ‘live’ or recorded images and sounds;. |
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ART & FEMENISM |
“FirstWave” Feminist works such as Judy Chicago’sDinner Party celebrates women andmedia such as needle point and ceramic tilesthat have been connected to women. “Second Wave”Feminist Art, such as works by Barbara Kruger, deconstruct the “malegaze” and stereotypical roles assigned to women. |
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PERFORMANCE ART |
an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance. |
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HAPPENINGS |
A main component of Happenings was the involvement of the viewer. Each instance a Happening occurred the viewer was used to add in an element of chance so, every time a piece was performed or exhibited it would never be the same as the previous time.
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ACTION PAINTING |
Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in whichpaint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. |
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AUTOMATISM |
automatism usually refers to the accessing of material from the subconscious or unconscious mind as part of the creative process – as seen in the art of the surrealist movement. |
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BAHAUS |
was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. |
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SOUND POEM |
Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words". sound poetry is intended primarily for performance. |
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POINTILISM |
a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye. It was developed by Georges Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of color. |
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TAJ MAHAL ANONYMOUS 1631-1648 INDIAN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE |
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AVANT-GARDE |
new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them. |
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PLEN-AIRE PAINTINGS |
refers to creating a work of art outside. |
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SUBLIME |
of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe |
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ROCOCO |
VIVID BRUSHSTROKES ALLUDING TO THE PLEASURES OF THE ARISTOCRATS ONE SEES IN THE WORK |
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TEA CEREMONY |
The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha (抹茶), powdered green tea. |
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ZEN |
a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition. |
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LITERATI PAINTINGS |
The literati painting or wenrenhua (文人畫) is the ideal form of the Chinese scholar-painter who was more interested in personal erudition and expression than in literal representation or an immediately attractive surface beauty.
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