Intro To Visual Art

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Subliminal Messages

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Messages you aren't supposed to know you've seen.

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Abstract

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Originally meant reduced to its most basic elements.

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Donatello's David

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The First Life-Sized nude sculpture in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire.

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The Presence of Jesus

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What was a single lighted candle a common symbol for in Renaissance Art?

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Convex Mirror

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A common Symbol for God.

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Eadweard Muybridge

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Who revolutionized motion photography?

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American Civil War

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The first war to be extensively photographed.

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Paleolithic

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Old Stone Age

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Relief Sculpture

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Sculptures with the figure still attached to the wall or rock.

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Ziggurat

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A Mesopotamian Temple

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Stilé

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An elongated commemorative marker

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The Pyramids

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Meant to be the fortress tombs of the pharohs

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Polytheism

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Worshipping many gods

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Black Figure and Red Figure

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Two Basic descriptions of Greek pottery

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Kore Figure

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A Greek sculpture of a young women

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Kouros Figure

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A Greek Sculpture of a young woman

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Archaic Phase

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Greek Phase of art includes art older than 480 BC

Angular human features. Not very life-like.

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Classical Phase

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Greek Phase of art includes art between 480 and 325 BC

More realistic human features than older Greek Phases.

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Hellenistic Phase

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Greek Phrase of art includes art between after 325 BC

Most realistic and life-like phase of Greek art

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5th Century Bronze

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One of the most revered art forms are sculptures from Greece in this time period.

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Bronze

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Most Greek sculptures are in this medium.

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Marble

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Most Roman sculptures are in this medium.

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Dorik, Ionik, and Corinthian

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The three orders of Greek architecture

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Etruscan Art

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Most surviving art is associated with their burials

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Concrete

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What Roman engineers used in large building projects

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Equestrian

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A statue featuring a mounted rider

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Pompeii

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A tragedy that left a Roman town relatively intact

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Catacombs

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Where early Christians were buried because they didn't have access to graveyards

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Byzantium

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The city Emperor Constantine Fled to

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Constantinople

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The Name Emperor Constantine gave to the city of Byzantium

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Gothic

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An insulting term that became the accepted name for these large churches

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Triptic

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A three-part painting that's usually a portable altarpiece

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Botticelli's The Birth of Venus

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An example of pretending a subject is Biblical and not Pagan

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The Pieta

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Michelangelo's first major work and also the only one he signed.

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The Sistene Chapel

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Famous for Michelangelo's Paintings on the ceiling and wall.

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An Attribute

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An object that allows us to identify someone. Like Poseiden's Trident.

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The Hour Glass

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A Renaissance attribute for Death.

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Micholangelo Caravaggio

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Renaissance Painter who had support from the church but was a pedophile.

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Artemisia Gentileschi

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One of the first women artists in Europe to achieve fame.

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Religious Prints

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The Church would buy these in bulk and distribute them free of charge

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The Wealthy, The King, and The Church

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People who could by art before Print Making

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William Hogarth

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An English Painter who criticized the rich.

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The Fire Arm

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Replaces the sword as a power symbol in art during the 18th century.

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Neo Classical

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A French Style that used the legends of ancient Rome to symbolize issues about the revolution of 1789

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Fransisco Goya

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A Spanish painter whose work was often violent and disturbing images of warfare.

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Realist painters like Gustave Courbet

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Often Criticized for making their art too "Real"

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Thomas Eakins

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An American painter and educator whose progressive practices got him in trouble.

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Edward Degas

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An aristocratic French artist who preferred the company of prostitutes and actors.

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Georges Surat

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Known for inventing pointillism.

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Art became about the Artist

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A shift in subject matter in Art around the start of the 20th century