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44 Cards in this Set
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Content |
the subject matter of a work of art; what the art is about |
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Contextualism |
An Approach that examines a work of art as the product of a particular time, place and culture |
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What is art the product of? |
Its creator and the cultural, political, economic and social forces that shaped that artist |
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is it possible to have the same content, same subject matter, but different context |
yes |
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What is representational art? |
art that Seek to reproduce the world around us |
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What is abstract art? |
art that is less “realistic” |
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What is non-representational art? |
art that does not seek to reproduce the world around us |
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What is an illusion? |
greater degree of reality |
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What are the primary colors? |
Red, yellow, blue |
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What are complementary colors? |
colors that are directly opposite from one another |
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What do complementary colors do? |
they intensify each other |
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What is Hue? |
the name of the color |
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What is Value? |
how light or how dark a color is |
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What is Saturation/Intensity? |
how pure a color is |
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What is a highly Saturated/intense picture? |
Bright |
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What is a low saturation? |
dull |
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What is Linear perspective? |
A way of depicting space which imitates how a person sees |
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What are the two things linear perspective does? |
1) Formsseem to be smaller as they recede from us 2) Parallellines seem to converge until they meet at a point in the distance. This point is called the vanishing point. |
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What is the vanishing point? |
the point where the parallel lines seem to converge |
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What is the foreground? |
Thearea of a image or scene of vision, often at the bottom, that appears to beclosest to the viewer |
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what is the middle ground? |
Thepart of an artwork that lies between the foreground (nearest to the viewer) andthe background. |
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What is the background? |
Thepart of a image orscene that appears to be farthest away from the viewer, usually nearest thehorizon. This is the opposite of the foreground. |
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What is atmospheric perspective? |
art that depicts objects in far distance in bluish grey hues and with less clarity than nearer objects (sky near horizon is lighter) |
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What is Foreshortening? |
art in which objects appear larger the closer they are to the picture |
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What is Symmetry? |
art that forms on either side of imaginary vertical or horizontal axis correspond to one another in size, shape and placement |
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What is perfect symmetry? |
mirror images |
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What is Asymmetry? |
Compositions where 2 sides do not match |
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In Asymmetry, what two things are heavier? |
Large size and bright colors |
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In asymmetry, what is lighter? |
objects high on picture plane |
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What do contour Lines do? |
Lines that defines a shape and separates one object form another |
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What is rhythm? |
when one or two elements are used repeatedly to create a feeling of movement |
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what is composition? |
the way visual elements- line, shape, light, color, texture, space- are organized are arranged |
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What is Scale? |
size in relation to "normal size" |
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What is Proportion? |
size relationship between part of whole, usually human body |
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what is Hieratic scale (hierarchy of scale)? |
representing the sizes of figures according to their importance, rather than how they would objectively appear in reality |
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What is the Theory of Sympathetic Magic? |
the belief that image and object represented is the same and that affecting image will also affect object |
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Whatre the small boob statues referred to as? |
Fertility Symbols and Venus figurines |
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What country is Catal Huyuk located in? |
Turkey |
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Where is the horse heads image from? |
Chauvelt Cave |
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how many different animal species are represented in the Chauvet Cave? |
14 |
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TRUE OR FALSE: Catal Huyuk had no streets and the entrance was through the roof |
TRUE |
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TRUE OR FALSE: In Catal Huyuk the dead were buried in mass graves |
False, they were buried under platforms in residential spaces |
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In what time period was Catal Huyuk |
the transition from nomad to settler |
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What was big in Catal Huyuk? |
painting and scultpture |
