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05/03/2012

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paleolithic
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shamanism, hunt, dreams
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mesopotamia
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power, authority, kingship, memory
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egypt
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stability, composite view, afterlife
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minoan
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ocean, trade, bull leaping
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archaic greece
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smile, heroes, pottery
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classical greece
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male beauty, innovation, golden ratio
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hellenistic greece
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emotion, noble savage, movement
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etruscan
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terra cotta, sarcophagi, statues on roofs of temples
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roman
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veneration of ancestors, cement, administrators
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early christian
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mosaic, good shepherd, catacombs
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byzantine
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golden brown splendor, mosaic, pantokrater, icon
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islam
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iconoclasm, second commandment, calligraphy, 5 pillars
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hiberno-saxon
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animal style/interlace, illuminated manuscrips, fear of empty space
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romanesque
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pilgimages, dark, solemn,
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gothic
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new light, soaring, stories in glass
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14th century
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black death, 100 years war, the body & background return
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international gothic
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elegant, intricate, aristocratic taste
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southern renaissance
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linear perspective, balance, neoplatonism, leadership
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northern renaissance
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oils, realism, symbols
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mannerism
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cluttered, contorted, lurid colors
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baroque
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zoom in, theater, chiaroscuro, action
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rococo
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indifferent, elegant, pastel, liaisons, idyllic
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neoclassicism
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return to antiquity, justify new power, encourage virtue
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romanticism
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sublime, heroic, criticism
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realism
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first avant-garde art, criticism, common man
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impressionism
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deconstructs light, color & perspective, space and form
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symbolism
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fantasy, mythology, subconscious
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expressionism
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occult, moving towards abstraction, new visual language
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cubism
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analytic then synthetic, POV
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futurism
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progress, technology, war, movement
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dada
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serious joke, readymade, what is art?
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surrealism
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dreams, dada, strange perspectives
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abstract expressionism
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gestural and chromatic, action painting
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pop art
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mass production, consumerism, animation
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minimalism
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purity, simplicity, essence
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feminist art
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the gaze, women in control, equality
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culture wars
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who controls art?, controversy, different understandings
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new media art
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installation, performance art, variety, postmodernism
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