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| Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents a tragic event in the spanish civil war and uses symbolic dream images typical of the style. |
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| anything the artist says it is |
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| Marcel duchamp redefined art as |
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| Futurist artist felt they had discovered the beauty of a new world-that of |
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| The style of art created by Picasso and Braque which reduced everything to geometric schemes |
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| primitive culture in the South Seas |
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| Post Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin critized the conditions of modern life and sought a new life painting |
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| the fleeting effects of light |
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| Impressionism is characterized by a way of seeing - by the attempt to capture |
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| in the romantic view ______ reigned supreme |
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| the Greek orders embodied the democratic ideals |
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| Thomas Jefferson brought the Neoclassical architechtural style to the United States because |
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| Soon after the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii, a new classical style reappeared and the ______ style began to be regarded as decadent. |
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| The sculptor Bernini created the Ecstasy of St Theresa as the center peice of a chapel in rome; it is typical of the baroque style because of its |
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| the pre-columbian cultures of Mexico are distinguished by their architecture and their preference for working in which medium? |
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| Leonardo offered his services to the Duke of Milan only secondarily as an artist; his first role was as |
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| The three great artists of the high Renaissance are Leonardo, Michelangelo, and _________ |
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| The architect Filippo Brunalleschi is credited with having invented |
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| Chartres Cathedral with it's Rose windows is an excellent example of what style of architecture? |
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| Lost since the decline of Byzantium, the Romanesque period marked the return of the art of |
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| the christian manuscripts produced in Ireland incorporated the animal style which reflected native |
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| Hagia Sophia was Justinian's imperial place of worship in constantinople; the name means |
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| the mosaic artists of the byzantine period had little interest in ____, their intention was to create a symbolic, mystical effect. |
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| in china this art technique reached a peak of excellence as advanced as any ever used |
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| one of the most important subjects of greek art is the |
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| legend of the labarynth of the Minotaur |
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| the huge, intricate designs of the Minoan royal palaces probably gave rise to the |
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| one of the most famous megalithic structures found in Salisbury plain, England. |
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| the venus of willendorf is most likely a _______. |
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| In 1934, streamlining was formally embodied in the form of a train called the |
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| in 1919 Walter Gropius founded a design school in germany known as the Bauhaus. Gropius saw the ______ as the salvation of humanity. |
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| Decorative in 1920's style that was reffered to as Art Moderne and primarily used materials such as chrome, steel, and Bakelite plastic. |
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| curvilinear designs based on nature |
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| Qualities of Art Nouveau as found in the glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany |
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| William Morris is considered the father of the arts and crafts movement in england, which emphasized |
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| Frederick law olmsted, designer of new york's central park is also credited with conceiving the idea of |
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| lateral thrust of the interior |
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| Gothic architects used the flying buttresses to compensate for the |
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| the romans were able to create large, uninterrupted interior spaces in architecture because of the development of |
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| The three Greek architectural orders are the Doric, Ionic and the |
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| available materials and methods |
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| the "look" of a culture's building and communities depends on the distinct landscape characteristics of the site, and the |
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| one of the most beautiful works of jewelery ever made |
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| The griffin bracelet from the oxus treasure horde is thought to be |
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| the terms woof, weft, and warp would be most commonly used by |
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| glassbowing has its origins in the first century B.C.E. and is thought to have been developed by the |
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| some methods of creating ceramic objects include throwing on the potter's wheel, coiling, and |
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| originally, when an individual produced functional objects by expert handiwork, we would have said they worked in |
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| the african kingdom of benin |
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| by the late fourteenth century CE, Brass casting had reached a high level of refinement in |
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| the natural stance known as contrapposto, a favorite of renaissance artists, was first demonstrated by the greek sculptor |
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| naturalism in greek sculpture was in part the result of investigations in the field of |
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| as examples of subtractive scuplture, wood and stone are the most common material for |
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| when a sculpture is created in the additive process, the artist |
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| as seen in tv buddha, nam june paik is best known for expanding the traditional limitations of artistic media by creating |
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| early animated cartoons were made up of literally thousands of hand drawn "stills" which when run at the speed of ____ appear to the viewers eye to be seamless action. |
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| the standard vocabulary of filmmaking |
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| the first great master of film editing was D.W. Griffith who in "the birth of a nation" essentially invented |
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| in the face of such a "miracle" as photography, the art of portrait painting |
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| the images could not be preserved |
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| the camera obscura was invented in the 16th century as a means of capturing images from the natural world. Its major drawback was that |
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