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Art Survey: Exam 3
For Gingr Vaughan's Art Survey Class; Exam 3
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Art History
11/11/2009

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Definition

 

Rodin: The Thinker

 

 

Western Philosphy

the Universe is knowable, the universe has order and follows laws
GREEK- plato/aristotle  DUALISM

mathetmatics and science

Term
2
Definition

Amida Nyoria Buddha

 

Eastern Philosophy

Buddhism

Enlightement, Reincarnation

 

 

Term
3
Definition

Gauguin: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

 

westerm philosophy

emphasis of THE BODY

Term
4
Definition

Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc: Mayan

 

Religion

Native American

Term
5
Definition

Transformation Mask (North American)

 

Religion

Native American

Term
6
Definition

Shiva

 

Religion

Hindu

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7
Definition

Water and Moon Bodhisattva

 

Religion

Buddhist

Term
8
Definition

Deesis mosaic: Hagia Sophia

 

Religion

Early Christian

Term
9
Definition

GIOTTO: Enthrowned Madonna

 

Christian

Gothic (years?)

Term
10
Definition

VAN EYCK: Ghent Altarpiece

 

Christian

15th Century Northern

Term
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Definition

GIOTTO: Lamentation

 

Christian

Gothic

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12
Definition

GHIBERTI: Jacob and Esau

 

Christian

Jewish

Renaissance (years?)

 

Term
13
Definition

MASACCIO: Expulsion

 

Christian Religion

Renaissance (years?)

Term
14
Definition

BOTTICELLI: Madonna and Child

 

Christian

Renaissance (years?)

 

Term
15
Definition

LEONARDO: Last Supper

 

Christian

High Renaissance (years?)

One point perspective

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Definition

MICHAELANGELO: Pieta

 

Christian

High Renaissance (years?)

Term
17
Definition

RAPHAEL: Madonna della Sedia

 

Christian

High Renaissance (years?)

Term
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Definition

CARAVAGGIO: Deposition

 

Christian Religion

Baroque (Years?)

Term
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Definition

GANGUIN: Yellow Christ

 

Baroque (years?) or 20th century

Term
20
Definition

FUNERAL MASK OF TUTENKHMUN

 

Mortality/Immortality

Egyptian

Term
21
Definition

Judgment of Henefer

 

Mortality/Immortality

Egyptian

Continuous Narrative*

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22
Definition

Greek Funerary Stele

 

Mortality/ Immortality
Christian?

Term
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Definition

ETRUSCAN SARCOPHAGUS

 

Mortality/Immortality

Christian?

Term
24
Definition

MASACCIO: Holy Trinity (lower section)

 

Mortality/ Immortality

Christian

Term
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Definition

Taj Mahal, India

 

Mortality/immortality

Islamic

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Definition

Reliquary Guaridan Figure

 

Mortality/Immortality

Term
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Definition

Aids Quilt Section

 

Mortality/Immortality

Term
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Definition

RYDER: Death on a Pale Horse

 

Mortality/ Immortality

Term
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Definition

MALLAIS: Death of Ophelia

 

Mortality/Immortality

Term
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Definition

FLACK: Wheel of Fortune (vanitas)

 

Mortality/Immortality

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Definition

LAWRENCE: Tomb Stones

 

Mortality/Immortality

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Definition

BISHNDAS and NANHA: Barbur-Garden of Fidelity

 

Highly Conceptual Art

Islamic Art Nature

Term
33
Definition

TYI WEARA HEADRESS

 

Natural World

Islamic Art & Nature

 

 

Term
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Definition

ZHANG RUOAI: Flower and Bird Paintings

 

Symmetry

Asian Art and Nature: idealized, dealing with an eternal, conceptual approach to nature

Term
35
Definition

MARUYAMA: Heron on Tree Trunk

 

Asian Art and Nature:

Idealized and to deal with an eternal, conceptual approach to nature

Term
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Definition

Pompeian Mural of Garden

 

Ancient World

Ancient people did not conceive the Natural World as being an entity apart- it simply was the WORLD.

Term
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Definition

CONSTABLE: Sky and Trees

 

Romanticism, Protestants

- Pantheism and the Sublime

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Definition

AUDUBON Purple Grackle

 

19th Century Science and ART:

The scientific advances of the 19th Century led to an increased interest in the Natural World and its diversity. John James Audubon was a naturalist and painter who depicted birds in their natural habitats. He published the BIRDS of AMERICA which depicted exquisite life-sized paintings of 700 species of birds. Darwin cited Audubon in his Origin of Species.

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39
Definition

MONET: Water Lilies

 

Natural World

the subject is LIGHT

Impressionism

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40
Definition

CEZANNE: The Brook

 

Natural World

expressed interested in form, emotion and ideas.

Post-Impressionism

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41
Definition

VAN GOGH: Poplars at St. Remy

 

Natural World

Form and emotion and ideas
Post-Impressionism

 


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Definition

SEURAT: La Grande Jatte

 

Natural World

Form, emotion, and ideas

Post-Impressionism

Term
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Definition

ROUSSEAU: The Dream

 

Natural World

Early 20th Century CONCEPTS of NATURE reflected in ARt

Nature as Fantasy

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Definition

GOLDSWORTHY: Dandelions...

 

Natural World

Late 20th and 21st Century Concepts of NATURE reflected in ART

Term
45
Definition

TURNER: Fighting Tameraine Towed to Her Last Berth

 

Constructed World

Confluence of Nature and Technology

 

"con"=with

confluence=influencing off one another(leeching)

Term
46
Definition

BALLA: Dog on a Leash

 

Constructed World

The Modern Dynamism

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Definition

BOCCIONI: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

 

Constructed World

Futurism

 

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Definition

CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE: Running Fence

 

Constructed World

The Earth as SUBJECT AND ART OBJECT

Term
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Definition

JORDON: Intolerable Beauty

 

Constructed World

Our ability to CREATE and to DESTROY with our TECHNOLOGY

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Definition

GREGGIO: Koyaanisqatsi

 

Constructed World

our ability to create and to destroy with out technology

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