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21 Cards in this Set
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What questions should you ask when observing art?
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How old is it?
What is its style? What is its subject? Who Made it? Who paid for it? |
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How old is it?
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Chronology, physical evidence, documentary evidence, visual evidence, stylistic evidence.
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What is its style?
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Period style, regional style, personal style, provenance.
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What is its subject?
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Narrative, landscape, still life, genre, iconography, symbols, atrributes, personification.
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Who made it?
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Personal style, a single person, a group.
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Who paid for it?
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Patrons.
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Physical Evidence
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What matarial was used, what technique was used? Was there a certain object or building?materials can tell us when it was made.
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Documentary evidence
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offical documents, written documents,dates, narratives.
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visual evidence
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a specific person, hairstyle, clothing, furnature style for a specific time.
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Stylistic evidence
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the way a work looks
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Period style
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a style specific to a certain culture or time.
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Regional style
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a style specific to its provenance.
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provenance
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place of origin
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personal style
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the distinctive manner of individual artists or architects
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chronology
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the dating of art objects and buildings
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genre
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daily life
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landscape
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a depiction of a place
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still life
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an arrangement of inanimate objects
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iconography
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the writing of images
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symbols
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images that stand for other images or encapsulate ideas
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attributes
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characteristics
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