Experiencing Art Quiz #9
Japanese ukiyo-e prints
"Pictures of the floating world" because they depict scenes of daily life, including landscapes, popular entertainments and portraits of theater actors -- the impermanent, pleasurable aspects of life known as the "floating world"
Rococo Style
A light, playful version of the Baroque Arts moved off of the marble halls of palaces and into fashionable town houses like hotels
Linear Perspective
Artists began an intense study of anatomy and light, and they applied geometry to the logical construction of implied space through the use of
Baroque
Artists used Renaissance techniques to move art in the direction of drama, emotion, and splendor; Art showed great energy and feeling, and a dramatic use of light, scale, and composition
Birth of Venus
Depicts Roman goddess of love just after she was born from the sea
Buddhist
Early Southeast Asian art and architecture was primarily what religion?
Terra Cotta Warriors
Emperor Qin ; Shihuangdi ordered a massive army of life-size clay soldiers made for this protection; These lifelike figures in their huge tomb were discovered in 1974, an extraordinary archaeological find
Albrecht Durer
Further developed the practice of combining instructive symbolism with detailed realism
Taotie mask
Honoring ancestors; eliefs evolving into Confucianism
Literati Painting
Innovative artist refused to paint or teach for the foreign government and created a new style called
Renaissance
Meaning rebirth - description for the period of revived interest in the art and ideas of classical Greece and Rome
Mannerism
Others rebelled against the order and serenity of the High Renaissance and cultivated personal, idiosyncratic, "mannered" styles; thus their style is called
Renaissance
Period of new and renewed understanding that transformed the medieval European world, and laid the foundation for modern society
Albrecht Durer
Practiced printmaking
Shinto
Religion of nature and ancestor worship; Gods dwell in forests, fields, waterfalls, huge stones
Rococo Style
Rocco paintings provided romantic visions of life free from hardship, in which courtship, music, and festive picnics filled the days
Chiaroscuro
Soft blurring of the edges - in Leonardo's words, "without lines or borders in the manner of smoke" --- achieved through subtle value gradations
Calligraphy
Traditional Chinese; The art of beautiful writing; broadly, a flowing use of line, often varying from thick to thin
Still-life painting
What category of painting enjoyed a new vogue in the Netherlands and Spain during the Baroque period?
The Holy Trinity
What was the first painting to systematically use Linear Perspective?
Gianlorenzo Bernini's
Who created "David"
Jan van Eyck
Who created The Arnolfini Portrait
Sandro Botticelli
Who created the Birth of Venus
Priest Sesshu
Who spread the influence of Buddhism and Hinduism after 800 BC?
consistency and flexibility
Why did Flemish painters used tempera paint instead of oil?
Sandro Botticelli
artist that believed that an artwork need not have a Christian subject to be uplifting and beautiful; Combined the Classical Greek idealized human figure with a Renaissance concern for thought and feeling
The Knight, Death, and the Devil
combines christian symbols with familiar subjects in the Flemish tradition of van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait
commemorates a wedding or a betrothal; people depicted have sacred significance (iconography)
Birth of Venus
first large mythological painting since Classical antiquity
Qi Inner
he process for the artist is to gain a clear inner vision of the life-energy of what is to be painted
David
is life-size, viewers become engaged in the action; Depicted David in the midst of his backswing Drama of the struggle
Chinese Porcelain
made from a rare type of clay that when fired becomes pure white; decorated with blue because that was the only color that could withstand the high temperatures necessary to fire