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33 Cards in this Set
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Hall of Bulls Lascaux, Francec. 15,000-13,000 BCE
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(Well Scene)Rhinoceros, wounded man and disemboweled bisonLascaux, Francec. 15,000-13,000 BCE
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Bison with Turned HeadLa Madeleine, Francec. 12,000 BCE
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Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)Austriac. 28,000-23,000 BCE
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Marching WarriorsGasulla Gorge, Castellón, Spainc. 7,000-4,000 BCE
Mesolithic |
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StonehengeSalisbury Plain, Wiltshire, Englandc. 2,550-1,600 BCE
Neolithic |
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Stylus |
Instrument for writing Basis for the word 'style' |
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Subject |
Content or what is represented religious historical mythological genre portrait, landscape. Still life, narrative non narrative, |
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Iconography |
The study of subject matter (writing of images) |
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Symbolic |
objects Carrying a particular meaning |
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Style |
How the art looks |
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Stylistic period |
Regional or personal |
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Elements of style (10) |
Composition, medium, technique, line, form, texture, light, color (hue intensity value) space, figure style |
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What is the goal of an art historian? |
Date - When Artist - Who Provenance - Where Subject - what Historical context why |
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Historical context |
The concerns of the people who made it. For example: Geography, climate political organization religious, philosophical beliefs and technological advances |
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Picture plane |
Surface upon which an artist arranges the elements of composition |
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Ground line or ground plane |
In 3D space the where the objects rest |
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Conceptual Art |
Depicting the meaning of an image rather than exact replica of reality. |
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Illusionistic |
Depicting a realistic recreation of life in art |
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Foreshortening |
Perspective applied to humans or animals |
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atmospheric perspective |
Objects that are close are crisper overhead sky is blue. |
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Paleolithic |
Old Stone Age 15,000 Art appears upper paleolithic |
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Mesolithic |
Middle Stone Age |
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Neolithic |
New Stone Age |
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Origins of art |
Time peri |
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Stylistic questions 6 |
Subject Composition Figure style Medium technique Purpose |
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Animism |
The belief that all life is produced by a spiritual source. All objects are alive and have souls. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. |
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Tectiform |
Geometric lines and dots. Researchers unsure of their meaning |
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Painterly |
characterized by qualities of color, stroke, and texture rather than of line.
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Sympathetic magic |
Salomon Reinach Suggested sympathetic magic is a primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought.
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Neolithic revolution |
Agriculture revolution |
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Heelstone |
The Heel Stone is a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge earthwork,
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Bluestone |
bluestone" in Britain is used in a loose sense to cover all of the "foreign" stones at Stonehenge. It is a "convenience" label rather than a geological term,
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