Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Fine Arts
Study Images & Lectures
7
Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
09/23/2009

Additional Art/Design Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Venus of Willendorf
Definition
prehistoric art-image if pregnant female, thought to be a fertility image becasue they longed for children
Term
Hall of Bulls
Definition
cave painting, FRANCE mostly of animals, natural pigments
Term
Simon RODEA: Watts Towers
Definition
California self taught, wirey, tall cone shaped, barbed wire looking
Term
Banksey
Definition
Graffiti, street rat, uses stencils
Term
Public memorial
Definition
the names project AIDS memorial Quilt, delivers message in arsthetic way
Term
WHAT IS ART? (3)
Definition
1. aethetics function (when you have to look at it as art
2. human made/human manipulated
3. creativity & leap of imagination
Term
The Last Supper
Definition
linear perspective/vanishing point focuses on Christ, others are facing Him, arch implies HALO, He has most intense warm color
Supporting users have an ad free experience!