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56 Cards in this Set
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Mona Lisa |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- A woman - Famous |
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Artists: Leonardo de Vinci |
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Fountain |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Guys use it to pee |
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Artists: Marcel Duchamp |
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The Court of Benin, Beni Culture |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- A face made of stone |
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Portrait of a Queen Mother |
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Mont Sainte-Victoire |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Mountains |
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Artist: Paul Cézanne |
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Wheel of Fortune |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Skull - Lots of things going on |
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Artist: Audrey Flack |
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Janitor |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- A man - Cleans |
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Artist: Duane Hanson |
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Spooning Couple |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Couple in bed |
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Artist: Ron Mueck |
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The Red Room (Harmony in Red) |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Red |
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Artist: Henri Matisse |
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Lots of people |
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Artist: Pablo Picasso |
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Woo |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Weird face |
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Artist: Tony Oursler |
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The State Hospital |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Aliens |
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Artist: Edward Kienholz |
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The Scream |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Person on a bridge |
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Artist: Edvard Munch |
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You Became a Scientific Profile & Photographic Subject |
What is the name of this Painting? |
- Black people - Red background |
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Artist: Carrie Mae Weems |
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Size of Mona Lisa
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- Moderate sized oil painting on a wood panel - Italian Culture - 30 3/8"x21" (Medium Size) |
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Info of Fountain
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- Replica of the original was lost in the 1917 New York Society of Independents Artists. - French Culture |
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Sizes of Portrait of a Queen Mother
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- From the court of Benin, early 16 century. - Ivory and Iron Inlays. - Beni Culture - 9 3/8" Height (Small Sized) |
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Sizes of You Became a Scientific Profile & Photographic Subject
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- Chromogenic color prints with sand - blasted text on glass. - American Culture - 25 5/8" x 22 3/4" (Medium Size) |
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Sizes of Mont Sainte-Victoire
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- Oil in canvas painting (1902-1904) - 27 1/2" x 35 1/4" (Medium Size) |
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Sizes of Wheel of Fortune
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- Oil over acrylic on canvas (1977-78) - American Culture - 8' x 8' (Large Size) |
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Sizes of Janitor
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- Cast of fiberglass and polyester resin, polychrome, mixed media (1973) - American Culture - Life-Sized Sculpture |
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Sizes of Spooning Couple
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- Cast of fiberglass and polyester resin, polychrome, and mixed media (2005) - Australian Culture - 5 1/2" x 25 5/8" x 13 3/4" (Underlife-Sized Sculpture) |
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Sizes of The Red Room (Harmony in Red)
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- Large oil canvas painting (1908-09) - French Culture - 5' 11" x 8' 1" (Large Sized) |
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Sizes of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
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- A landmark Cubistic painting - Large oil on canvas painting (1907) - 8' x 7' 8" (Large Sized) |
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Sizes of Woo
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- Mixed media: fiberglass sculpture, Sony VPL CS5 projector - American Culture - 33" x 35" x 16" (Small Sized) |
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Sizes of The Scream
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- Casein and reappear on cardboard (Painting, 1893) - Norweign Culture - 35 7/8" x 29 1/8" (Medium Sized) |
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Sizes of The State Hospital
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- Mixed medium sculpture - Cast from life, then artistically altered (1966) - American Culture - 8' x 12' x 10' (Large Sized, Life Sized) |
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Glazing |
a method of oil painting in practice during the Italian Renaissance. |
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Sfumato |
a technique that Leonardo de Vincci invented. Sfumato refers to the soft, veiled, smoky appearance of the oil painting. |
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Dada |
an anti art, anti-meaning, anti-movement. Related to WWII. |
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Form |
the way a work of art looks. Everything about visual and physical appearance of the artwork. |
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Subject Matter |
the figures, objects or shapes that are portrayed in the work of art. |
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Content |
the message or meaning of the work of art. What a work of art says or communicates. |
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Iconography |
the story within a work of art, including the conventional meanings and all levels of symbolic meanings, such as literacy, cultural, and religious references. |
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Iconology |
the study of visual symbolism in art. |
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Style |
an identifiable and recognizable set of visual characteristics. |
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Representational Art |
depicts objects or people in some recognizable form. |
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Media |
the materials and the techniques used to create a work of art. |
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Medium |
the singular form of media. |
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Realism/Naturalism |
the portrayal of people and objects as they are seen to be in nature. |
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Vanitas |
Baroque still life paintings that used objects to symbolize the fleeting nature of life and thus the folly of people's desires for wealth and beauty. |
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Trompe-I'oeil |
art rendered with such exacting realism that the viewer can be fooled into thinking that the subjects are real rather than painted or sculpted. |
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Abstract Art |
depicts objects and figures in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways. |
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Motif |
repeated subjects or pattern |
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