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| The treatment and use of light and dark; especially the gradation of light that produces the effect of modeling |
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| Atmospheric Perspective (Aerial Perspective) |
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| Produces a sense of depth by imitatin g the atmosphere making objects look paler, more blue, or less distinct as they get farther away |
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Refers to the quality of the surface: smooth, polished, rough, thick, etc.
Increased texture is increased naturalism. |
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| art that imitates reality, doesn't necessarliy mean nature |
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| nonobjective; nonrepresentational; art that doesn't attempt to mimic "real life" |
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| sculptures that invite the viewer to look at from all angles, not on a flat surface |
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sculpture that projects from its background, mostly flat
Difference between high and low relief |
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| the time before the appearance of written language |
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| Paleolithic Cave Paintings |
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- decorative funcitons
- sympathetic hunting magic (assured a good hunt?)
- food creation purposes (assured survival of animals being hunted?)
- initiation rites/social ceremony
ie: Lascaux |
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(8,000-5,000 BCE)
means the New Stone Age, characterized by:
1. domestication of plant and aminals
2. develope a sedentary lifestyle
more stylized and sophisticated, shows human figures, started building architecture |
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| a system of construction in which two vertical posts support a horizontal beam[image] |
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| a prehistoric tomb with a long stone corridor leading to a burrial site |
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Structures built in Mesopotamia
Use a step pyramid style[image] |
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| Vertical lines that separate text most commonly seen in Ancient Egyption hieroglyphs |
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| A sculpture relief in which forms extend out from the background to at least half their depth |
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During the Dynastic Period of Ancient Egypt
(2,700-2,150 BCE)
The age of the pyramids - built during most stable political era in Egypt.
Desert separated by Nile Valley
mastaba tombs, pyramids, |
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early Egyption funerary monuments/tombs
ceremony rome above ground, burried bellow
during Old Kindgom |
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"City of the Dead"
for pharaohs
pyramid, funerary temple, palaces
built on opposite side of river from where the living were |
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"rock-cut tombs"
pyramids no longer being built - began attracting thieves
pillars and stuff cut into stone as a decoration |
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Part of the Dynastic Period (1,550-1,070 BCE)
- temples built into the sides of rocks
- axially arranged (N,S,E,W)
- errected in honor of pharaoh/diety and used after death to commemorate and heal |
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- Cycladic Civilization (3,000-2,000 BCE)
cyclades islands
- Minoan Civilization (1,700-1,200 BCE)
on crete
- Mycenaean Civilization (1,700-1,200 BCE)
mainland greece |
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| wet plaster and wet paint on a wall |
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| Based on shift in body weight, noticably in later Greek statues. |
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the highest point of a city
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also known as Twisted Perspective
where the legs and face are going one direction (viewed from the side) and the torso is facing the viewer
think ancient egypt |
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| Greek, "great stone." A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures. |
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| The "middle" Stone Age, between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic ages |
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| Illusionism (Illusionistic) |
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| The depiction of the three-dimensional spatial world on a two-dimensional surface |
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| Greek, "young man." An Archaic Greek statuary type depicting a young man |
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| Lost-Wax Bronze Casting Method |
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| A bronze-casting method in which a figure is modeled in wax and covered with clay; the whole is fired, melting away the wax and hardening the clay, which when becomes a mold for molten metal |
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| In Archaic Greek sculpture, the smile sculptors represented on faces as a way of indicating that the person is alive |
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| A series or row of columns, usually spanned by lintels |
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| The part of the entablature between the architrave and the cornice; also, any sculptured or painted band in a building. |
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| The large reception hall in a Mycenaean palace, fronted by an open, two-columned porch |
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| A half-round column attached to a wall. |
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| Polykleitos and "The Canon" |
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| A rule, for example, of proportion. The ancient Greeks considered beauty to be a matter of "correct" proportion and sought a canon of proportion, for the human figure and for buildings |
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| In ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force |
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| A fixed, stylized method of representation, often determined by religious principles and ideas |
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| The use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contraction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight |
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