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art final
ch 9-14
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/17/2011

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Self portrait as the allegory of painting
Definition

gentileschi- boroque

pendant symbolized imitation

portrays herself as real woman and artistic genius

Term
Mummy portrait of a man
Definition

faiyum, egypt

encaustic-waxy substance from tree-most famously used in classical greece

one of oldest not done on cave wall 

funeral portraits 

remarkable skill with brush

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still like with eggs and thrushels
Definition

fresco-pigment mixed with limewater/ planter mixed with pigment 

in pompeii

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detail of a fresco cave wall in ajanta india
Definition

bodhisattve

fresco secco-adding plaster with pigment to existing wall

an enlightened being 

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glorification of saint ignatius
Definition

pozzo

baroque

forshortening-looks as through roof has been taken off and you can see into heaven

trompe l'oe-painted away

Term
Primavera
Definition

botticelli-renaissance

8 wood panels long 

tempra painting 

Term
Braids
Definition

andrew wyeth

eggs tempera

palette of warm colors against the black background

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The annunciation 

 

Definition

The master of flemalle-campin

oil on wood 

tryptych- 3 panels- moving altar pieces


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A wall, Nassau
Definition

winslow homer

watercolor-one of most expressive painting medias

in reference to tourist coming to island-blocking beauty

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The great wall of los angeles
Definition

judith baca -activist painter and muralist

synthetic media-acrylic-used to make plastic

immune to weathering 

more than a mile long

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The table
Definition

juan gris 

what is real and wut is false

collage-mixed media

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Monogram
Definition

rauschenberg

combine painting-high relief collage

Term
le boulevard du temple
Definition

daguerre

daguerreotype-positive image on polished metal plate-france


Term
camera obscura
Definition

camera is latin word for room

camera obscura room used to copy nature accurately 


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Maria edgeworth
Definition

richard beard-opened first british potrait studio

she was one of first customers 

Term

The birth of a nation

battle scene

 

Definition

griffith-first great master in film editing

invented vocab of film making 

Term

Tv bra for living sculpture

 

Definition

nam jun paik-performance art-short lived

literal realization of the boob tube

charlotte moorman

Term

Burning of atlanta

scene from gone with the wind

Definition

the popular cinema

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THe Greeting
Definition

Bill Viola-video artist 

Term
Still from rage and depression
Definition

william wegman

video

implies we can never trust wut we see

Term
The matter of time 
Definition

Richard sera-american sculture

relation of scultpure to both time and space

composed of 8 seperate pieces

waterproof steel


Term
from the white chapel at karnak
Definition

senwosret

relief sculpture

egyptians decorated walls of their temples 

Term
Panathenaic procession
Definition

parthenon

maidens and stewards

greeks used as a means of decoration

high relief-project toward- this still considered low relief


Term

The rape of the Sabine Woman

 

Definition

giovanni de bologna

sculpture in the round-demans movement

changes dramatically as viewer walks around it

horror of scene lends sculpture its power

Term
King Menkaure and His queen
Definition

egyptian-idea to unify material and spiritual world 

stone funerary figures

gaurentee immortality

Term
Kouros
Definition

greek-more naturalistic style-more at ease and more life like

Term
Hermes and Dionysos
Definition

praxiteles-greek-most famous of his day

shifted wieght of body even more drastically 

contrapposto-couter balance-greater sense of naturalism and movement

Term
Case of Bottles
Definition

robert arneson

glazed ceramic-modeling


Term
Tomb of emperor shih huang ti
Definition

6000 life size ceramic figures of soldiers 

Term

Court of Benin

 

Definition

nigerian, edo

brass casting 

brass head of and oba-king of a dynasty-8th century

put at altar

generalized images that emphasize the dress-symbol of authority

Term
The Burghers of Calais
Definition

auguste rodin

cast in several pieces then welded together

commemorate 6 of its leading citizens 

Term
Legs in Sink
Definition

robert gober

fragments of everyday dometic life

open ended 

suggesting adolecent awkwardness-2 left feet

Term
Insurrection
Definition

kara walker

installation

primary took is silhoutte-populatized in courts of europe

reflect political context of the mediums origin-translated into master-slave relationship in 19th C antebellum south

light projections from the ceiling

Term

A frontal Passage

 

Definition

Turrell

uses space and light to disorienate vision

part of larger series called wedgework

Term
Spiral Jetty
Definition

Robert smithson-minimalist 

earthworks-first time someone used earth for art

great salt lake

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Sun tunnels
Definition

nancy holt

great basin desert, utah

aligned with rising and setting of the sun during summer and winter solstice

holes duplicate arragement of stars on 4 constelations 

Term
Lightning Field
Definition

walter de maria 

new mexico 

field filled with lightning rods-more predominant

Term
Moses Window
Definition

abbey church of saint dennis

stain glass window used to tell different stories in bible


Term

Revelers

 

Definition

Euthymides

designed to store provisions such as wine or oil 

mostly used red clay

almost always decorate with low relief greek figures


Term
Rotunda Chandelier
Definition

Dale chihuly

blown glass-took glass from basic objects to art 

each part individually created and put together

installation pieces

Term
Unicorn in Captivity
Definition

fiber

tapestries hung on walls of mansions and castles to soften and warm the stone

traced back to weaving


Term

Tar Beach

 

Definition

Faith ringold

roof where her family would sleep on hot summer nights

acrylic on canvas boardered with painted and quilted cloth


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