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18 Cards in this Set
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What are the six basic art historical questions?
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facts (title/artist/date), style (visual traits), iconography (subject matter), technical matters (medium), patron/audience, position in a larger context (vs artists other works/other works of that time period)
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composition
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how objects/ images are arranged on the surface of a work
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form
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actual shape of a structure or form
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material & technique
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what the work of art was made of
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texture
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the physical texture of a work of art or the percieved texture of a work of art.
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Color
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Primary-RYB, secondary-GOV, complimentary- O+B; colors across wheel
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space
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the concept of three dimensional space
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mass+volume
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how objects take up space
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line
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can be distinct, free flowing, diagonals, specific (like how men usually have strong, sharp lines and woman have soft, curved lines in art)
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perspective
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creating the allusion of three dimensions on a two dimensional surface.
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foreshortening
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placing an object 45 degrees to the picture plane; the object should be drawn looking squished and disfigured.
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Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ, c. 1500
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proprtion
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relative size of objects and images to each other within the picture plane. (hierarchic proportion- making one object larger to signify importance)
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scale
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the relative size of us looking at the work, ie the size of the whole work
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relief sculpture
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only sculpted on one side
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the art with the three Roman soldiers fighting and the three women in the background, dark colors, everything's in threes...etc
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The Oath of Horatii, Jacques Louis David, 1784
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Formal analysis
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visual cues, such as texture, line, compostion, and color
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historiography
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research and learning; biography, psychoanalyisis, cultural values, other contexts
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Lascaux caves
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caves in France, "hall of bulls" 15,000 bc
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