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evokes intense emotional responses from viewers.
Bernini |
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exaggerated and theatrical type of chiaroscuro where selected forms emerge strongly highlighted from a pervasively dark background
Velazquez |
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| Generes of painting (landscape, still ife, genre painting) |
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landscape- focuses on the landscape
still life- objects that arent in motion captured as life like paintings
Genre painting- paintings with a certain theme
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Thickly applied pigment
van Gogh's "The Starry Night" |
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| The creation myth of the Aztec (migration and the battle of Coatepec |
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aztecs were located on an islandd city in the middle of a lake.
footprints in art symbolize migration
myth of Coatepec- woman got pregnant by putting dust in chest, 400 siblings go to kill the mom but the son is born fully armored and kills all the siblings |
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| Templo Mayor (Great Temple of Tenochititlan) |
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| largest Aztec pyramid that was in the center of the city |
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| method of casting metal by a process in which a wax mold is covered with clay and plaster then heating the wax and leaving a hollow form where metal is poured |
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| culture that incorporates masks and uses wooden sculptures that had exaggerated features |
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Sea god with mudfish feet that could stand on water
Yoruba god |
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figure that people keep in their room that displays the most desired marks of beauty so that the spirit spouses would be encouraged to enter the sculpture
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art movement emerged in france in the late 17th early 18th century
flowing lines and elaborate decoration
Fragonard |
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based on the principles of simplicity and symmetry
David's "Oath of the Horatii" |
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| loose, fluid brushwork, strong colors, dranatic contrasts of light and dark |
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| print made from a design drawn on a flat block with greasy crayon. oil-based ink applied to a wet stone and when printed adheres only to the greasy areas of the design |
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| fascination with middle eastern cultures that inspired 19th cent european fantasies of exotic life |
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| attempt to represent subject matter as truthfully as possible |
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| positive photo print on a light sensitized copper plate |
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tendency to emphasize the physical process of artistic creation. questions the naure of art and adapts new techniques
"The Joy of Life" Matisse |
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French based movement about feeling and expression through painting
Monet |
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borrrowing from primitive art and putting it into modern art
Picasso |
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| breaking of objects into parts to analyze them |
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| i know what a goddamn collage is |
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advance technology and urban modernity celebrated
similar to cubism |
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ordinary objects turned into art
"Fountain" Duchamp |
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| art as a practical socially relevant endeavor with a focus on industrial production |
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| a beam or structure that is anchored at one end and projected horizontally beyond its vertical support |
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release the creative potential of the unconscious mind
dali's "The Persistence of Memory" |
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paint spontaneously dribbled on the canvas
pollack |
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mix between painting and sculpture
Rauschenberg |
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art made from popular culture
warhol |
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| silk or polyester is used with a special machine and stencils to create art |
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| women become involved in fine art like the "dinner party" by judy chicago |
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incorporating a preexisting image into a new creation
collages |
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