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ARTH 211 Final
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/12/2023

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Term
oba
Definition
ruler of African people
Term
Benin artworks
Definition
usually depicts warriors or represent their queen (Iyoba) or Oba)
Term
Benin
Definition
made lots of masks and made some of the first maps
- positioning
Term
Downfall of Benin
Definition
Got invaded and got lots of their plaques taken usually by the Europeans but we don't see much or know much about them because of the invasion
Term
iwa
Definition
nonmortal god
Term
gelede masks
Definition
Cool masks worn by men in ceremonies as performance
Term
Borque artists
Definition
Lots of self portraits people didn't value artists as much
Term
genre
Definition
a type of painting where very little is happening
Term
rococo
Definition
a painting that is out of style and old-fashioned. women were nade to be looked at men were created to look.
example:François de Cuvilliés,
Hall of Mirrors, the
Amalienburg,
Nymphenburg
Palace park, Munich,
Germany, begun
1734.
Term
neoclassicism
Definition
an outdoor entertainment or rural festival, especially as depicted in 18th-century French painting.
also a theme
Term
The Swing,
Definition
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
men looking at women
Term
exemplum virtutis
Definition
to teach a virtue
Term
Oath of the Horatii
Definition
Jacques-Louis David
in painting teaching the virtue of fighting for country
Term
native american art
Definition
masks for performance
totem poles
Sometimes show families are torn apart by Europeans
Term
realism
Definition
child labor
women rights
Showed everyday life
Term
Impressionism
Definition
really focused on impression their face to give it life
example:Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Bal du
Moulin de la
Galette, 1876, oil
on canvas, 131 x
175cm. (52 x
69in.) Paris,
Musée d’Orsay.
Term
Artifact Piece
Definition
James Luna displays himself identity main stream
did it a ton in different places
Term
the four seasons
Definition
Wendy Redstar, all backgrounds fake
Term
The Guadalupe series
Definition
Yolanda López all doing different tasks at ages
Term
virgin a Guadalupe
Definition
the Guadalupe series got ridiculed for how it looked like the virgin
Term
Runner on my own
Definition
Yolanda lopez
Term
Amalia Mesa-Bains
Definition
lots of vanity areas
with many it the statue Coatlicue in the mirror reminding veiwer of past deeds
Term
Robert
Mapplethorpe
Definition
did many portraits of famous people.
sensual scenes or naked depictions
Term
many identity representations like originals
Definition
birth of Venus example
Term
Some Themes
Definition
Some Themes
• Ceremonies: political, religious, social
• Power: institutional, state, and cultural
• Artistic freedom
• Monuments
• Repatriation, Restitution, Reparation
• The category and definition of ‘art’
• Colonialism
• Gender
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