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Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
"Origins of Western Art", Athens in the Fifth Century", and "Hellenistic Style"
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
09/14/2010

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Perspective
Definition

A pictorial technique for simulating on a flat, two-dimensional surface, or in a shallow space, the three-dimensional characteristics of volumetric forms and deep space.

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[image]
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Stonehenge

 

England

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[image]
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Ziggurat

 

Mesopotamian

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Ziggurat
Definition
A stepped pyramid in Mesopotamian architecture.
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Stereotype
Definition

Something conforming to a fixed or general pattern.

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[image]
Definition

Ishtar Gate

 

Mesopotamian

(Babylonian)

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[image]
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Sphinx

 

Egyptian

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Fresco
Definition

A process of painting on wet or dry plaster wherein the pigments are mixed with water and become one with the plaster; a medium perfected during the Italian Renaissance.

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Genre
Definition

In the pictorial art and sculpture, the casual representation of everyday life and surroundings. Also a type, style, or category of art.


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[image]
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Acropolis

 

Hellenic

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[image]
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Parthenon

Elgin Marbles/Parthenon Marbles


Hellenic

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Façade
Definition

  Usually the font of a building; also the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally.

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Humanism
Definition

An emphasis in art and thought on individual creativity and capability.

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Idealism
Definition

Perfect forms that exclude blemishes and shortcomings in representing the human figure. 

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Rationalism
Definition

The belief that reason is the source for human understanding of the world. 

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Relief
Definition

A plane that exists three-dimensionally as a projection from a background. Also sculpture that is not freestanding but projects from a surface of which it is a part. When the projection is relatively slight, it is called bas-relief or low relief; when the projection is very pronounced, it is called high relief. 

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Mimesis
Definition

 Greek for “imitation,” as in the imitation of nature.

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Archetype
Definition

 A universal pattern or model.

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Frieze
Definition

The central portion of the entablature between the architrave and the cornice; any horizontal decorative or sculptural band.

 

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[image]
Definition

Altar of Zeus


Hellenistic

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[image]
Definition

Laocoon Group

 

Hellenistic

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Individualism
Definition

A belief in the rights and responsibilities of the individual human being.

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Realism
Definition

A midnineteeth-century style of painting and scuplture based on the belief that the subject matter of art and the methods of representation should be true to life without stylization or idealization.

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Empiricism
Definition

Based on experiments, observation, and practical experience without regard to theoretical conjecture.


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the true reality-value is God
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Ideational Art
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its style is partly symbolic and allegoric
Definition
Idealistic Art
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it lives and moves entirely in the empirical world of the senses
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Sensate Art
Term
its style is and must be symbolic
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Ideational Art
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its emotional tone is pious, ethereal, and ascetic
Definition
Ideational Art
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its style is partly realistic and naturalistic
Definition
Idealistic Art
Term
its aim is to afford a refined sensual enjoyment: relaxation, excitation of tired nerves, amusement, pleasure, entertainment
Definition
Sensate Art
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it is an intermediary between the ideational and sensate forms of art
Definition
Idealistic Art
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it must be sensational, passionate, pathetic, sensual, and incessantly new
Definition
Sensate Art
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it pays little attention to the persons, objects, and events of the sensory empirical world
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Ideational Art
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its world is part supersensory and partly sensory, but only in the sublime and noblest aspects of sensory reality
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Idealistic Art
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it is wholly internal and therefore looks externally simple, archaic, devoid of sensory trimmings, pomp, and ostentation
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Ideational Art
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it has to be eternally changing
Definition
Sensate Art
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its objective is to bring the believer into a closer union with God
Definition
Ideational Art
Term
its style is naturalistic, visual, even illusionistic, free from any supersensory symbolism
Definition
Sensate Art
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