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Duane Hanson
Super Market Shopper
1970
Polyester Resin and fiberglass |
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| the quality, production, expression, or realm of what is beautiful, or of more than ordinary significance |
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Titian
Venus of Urbino
c. 1536
oil |
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| How do art historians seek to understand the meaning of art from the past? |
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1. assesment of materials
2. analysis of structure
3. identification of subject or symbolism
4. integration within cultural context |
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| Basic Formal Elements of Art |
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Jackson Pollock
Number 1, 1950
1950
oil, enamel, and aluminum paint |
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Mark Rothko
No. 14, 1960
oil |
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Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
1889
oil |
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Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
1913
Bronze |
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Polykleitos
Canon
c. 450 B.C.E.
marble |
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| What are some of the aims of art? |
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| realism, naturalism, idealism, abstraction |
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Piet Mondrian
Composition 192/Tableau No. 11 1921-25 with Red, Blue, Yellow, and Gray
Oil |
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Virgin and Child and Angels
Chartres Cathedral
France
1170
Stained glass |
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Woman/Venus from Willendorf
Austria
c. 24,000 B.C.E.
limestone |
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The Great Pyramids
Gizeh, Egypt
Menkaure (2490-2472 BCE), Khafre (2520-2494 BCE), and Khufu (2551-2528 BCe) |
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Asher B. Durand
Progress
1853
Oil |
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Edward Munch
The Scream
1853
Oil |
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| The Bronze Age was characterized by ______. |
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| Cycladic, Minoan (Crete), and Helladic (mainland) |
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Kamares Ware Jar
Crete Greece
c. 1800-1700 BCE |
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Snake Goddess
Crete
c. 1600 BCE |
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| The Late Bronze Age dates |
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Aerial View of Palace at Knossos
Crete
1700-1400 BCE |
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Plan of the Palace at Knossos
Crete
1700-1400 BCE |
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the cup bearer from the procession fresco
Knossos
1700 BCE |
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Stairwell in the palace of Knossos
Crete
1700-1400 BCE |
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Basement storage, storage vessels
Palace at Knossos
1700-1400 BCE |
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Knossos Throne Room
Crete
1700-1400 BCE |
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Bull leaping from the Palace at Knossos
Crete
1450-1400 BCE |
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Queen Nefertiti
Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton
1360 BCE
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Marine style pilgrim flask
Crete
1500 BCE |
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| The Late Bronze Age Dates |
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Lion Gate
Mycenae
1250 BCE
Limestone |
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| Plan of the Citadel of Mycenae |
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Cyclops
Reputed builder of the walls of Mycenae |
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relief panel of the lion gate
Mycenae
1250 BCE
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3 methods of spanning a passageway
1. post & lintel
2. corbeled arch
3/arch |
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Palace at Pylos
reconstruction of the hall |
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Iktinos and Kallicrates
Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Parthenos
Acroplis, Athens, Greece
447-438 BCE
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Horsemen
of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze
Marble
Currently located in the British Museum, London |
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Euphronios Krater
515-510 BCE |
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Macchu Picchu, Peru
c 1450
Excavated in 1911 by Hiram Bingham |
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legendary king of knossos
son of zeus
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| englishman who excavated the palace at Knossos in the early 20th century |
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| a mythological beast with the head of a bull & the body of a man that fed on human flesh until Theseus, the Athenian youth killed it |
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body of a lion
head and wings of an eagle |
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painting on lime plaster
dry or wet
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figures projecting from a background of which they are apart
degree is designated as high, low (bas), or sunken |
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| the large reception room in the Mycenaen palace |
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| courses of stone or brick which each projects beyond the one beneath it |
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| an independent city-state in ancient Greece |
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| any art that emphasizes rational order, balance, harmony, and restraint |
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| the idea that art not only reproduces nature, but perfects and improves upon it |
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Menkaure and Khamerernebty
Gizeh, Egypt
c. 2490-2472 BCE
Graywacke |
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The Battle of Marathon
the Persian expedition against the Athens was repelled |
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| The Persians sack the Athens in retribution |
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| Sparta defeats Persians at Platea |
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Athens creates the Delian League for Liberation of greek cities from Persia
Establishes treasury on Delos |
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Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs
c. 447-438 BCE
Marble |
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Bust of Perciles
Roman marble copy
c. 429 BCE original |
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The temple of Athena Parthenos
447-438 BCE |
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| Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian Orders |
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Athena Parthenos
c. 447 BC
gold, ivory, and marble |
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Side detail of Panathenaic Festival procession
447-432 BC
marble |
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Horsemen detail in the Panathenaic festival procession
447-438 BC
marble |
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| Reconstruction of a Classical Panathenaic Procession |
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folding of Athena's peplos
447-438 BCE
marble |
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Helios and his horses
438-432 BCE
marble |
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three goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite
438-432 BCE
marble |
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480-350 BCE
(the middle period of ancient greek civilization) |
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| a style represented by columns |
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| a spiral, scroll-like characteristic of the ancient greek Ionic capital |
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| a triangular space at the end of a building |
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| established many reforms in Athens during the Archaic period and initiated democracy |
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