Fine Arts 101

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fine art

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stuff for asethtic satisfaction. intangible level rather then practical

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applied art

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art with functional purpose as well. example: decorated pencil.

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form

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everything about physcail appearnace of art. size, texture, etc.

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sfumato

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refers to the soft spot. smoky appearnce of oil paintings.

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glazing

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layering of many translucent applications of paint.

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who is la gioconda?

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Mona lisa

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Mona lisa info?

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by leonardo davinci. italian rennsiance artist. moderate sized. wood panel. at louvre museum in florence.

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Fountain info?

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Marcel Duchamp, french modern era artist. a "dada" work.

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r. Mutt?

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written on the "fountain"

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what are "ready-mades?"

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made from or incorporates already exisiting objects, usually common place objects

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dada

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an anti-art, anti-meaning, anti-movement. anarchist movement

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nihlism

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an extreme form of skepticism; total rejection of law or tradition

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venus of willendorf?

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prehistoric sculpture. very small.( 4 3/8 inches).. was ample body weight. once was red.

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subject matter?

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figures, objects or shapes that are portrayed in a work of art.

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content

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message or meaning of the work.

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iconography

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story within a work of heart. (religius refrences, etc).

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iconology

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the study of visual symbolism.

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portrait of a queen mother?

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endant mask. from the court of benin, early 16th century. was a pendant. was for royalty.

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meaning of mask

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portrait of a person. not actual mask.

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motif

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subject matter or a pattern or design.

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olokun

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one of the nature things the benine believed in. ruled land, water and wealth.

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staircase, tassel house?

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by victor horta in the art nouveau style. a housse for a man named tassel.

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art nouveu style?

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1890-1914 accross europe and america. reminisent of plants, flowers, insects. lyrical lineraity.

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barcelona chair?

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ludwig miles van der roche. bauhas style. 29" high.

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bahaus style?

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20th century production. building house. design was severly economic. used geometric shapes. "less is more" ended with hitler, he hated modern art.

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the distinction between fine art and applied art rests on intention of?

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utlity (usefullness)

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media?

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refers to material and techniques used to create art bjects

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medium?

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single form of meida

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oeuvre?

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when an established fine art artist makes an occasional functional image. (entire body of artists lifeowrk)

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the pop art movement?

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in america and england in 60's and 70's. recreates images using fine art media.

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The kaufmann house "falling water"

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by frank lloyd wright. built private houses. house placed directly above waterfall. arcitects had doubts, constrcuted from 4 materials (stonce, concrete, steel and glass) sun appears in all rooms.

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style

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an identfiable and recognizable st of visual characterictics. can be artist, group or artists in a period of time, or culture

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2 style categories?

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representational and nonrepresentaional.

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nonrepresentational art?

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does not portray any real person of object. no reconizable subject matter.

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representational art?

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depicts object or people in some recognizable form.

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mount-sainte victoire

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by paul cezzane, a post-impressonal artist. wanted to serach for solidarity, used cylinders. felt linear perspective was a lie. ancestor of cubism.

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a solitary temple amid clearing peaks.

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by li cheng. the mystical give that brings harmoney that combines the myriad things into a harmonius whole,

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confucianiam

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rational, politcal philosophy that involves self discipline

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daoism

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an intuative philosophy that emphasizes individualism, non conformity and return to nature

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the monumental style of chinese landscape painting

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life busy with constraints. spirtual communcaition with nature.

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realism/naturalism

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portrayal of people and objects as they are seen to be in nature. accuracy emphasized.

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photorealism/ photorealist paintings

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extracting realism and precision. photogrpahic vision of reality.

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wheel of fortune

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by audrey flack, a contempory american artist. very large painting. still life photo, uses photogrpahy.

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vanitas

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baroque still life paintings that used objects to symbolize fleeting nature of life and thus desires for wealth and beauty

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momento mori

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a skull symbolizes passing of life and thus greed and vanity.

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trompe- l' oeil

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art rendered w/ realism such that viewer can be fooled. scale same as real subject matter

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abstract art

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depicts objects and figures in simplified, distorted or exaggerated ways. representational.

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the red studio

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henry matisse. a french modern era artist. LARGE. oil on canvas.

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fauve movement

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first 20th century art movement. critics called it violent.

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cubism and pablo picaso

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objects flattened then reassembled.

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les demoiselles d'avignon

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by pablo picaso. during the modern era. cubistic. 1907. follows what cezzane started.