Art Appreciation Key Terms
abstract
Breaking the complexity of nature down to basic elements of line, shape, color, value, etc.
Art Appreciation
Combination of understanding and enjoyment.
Manetho; dynasties
Manetho- King utilized greek language. Dynasties- family
Stele; stelai
Served variety of purposes, publish
Aegean
Where the story of art in Greece begins.
lost-wax method of casting
a. Clay or plaster b. Synthetic rubber mold creating negative impression of original. c. negative mold in 2 parts coated with wax layer. d. cut away view of wax figure showing walls and plaster cone to replace lost wax e. pouring molten metal into mold. f. completed figure as metal rods are being removed.
culture; civilization
collective conventions of a society.
Composite pose
did not show a composite of a person
Pericles
greek rulers
Trompe l'oeil
to fool the eye
Aesthetic impulse
urge to respond to what we find beautiful
Kouros
young man
kore
young woman/girl
Hierarchiacal scale
Like the ruler being the bigger guy
Riverine civilizations
(1) Mesopotamia- the Tigris and Euphrates River (2) Ancient Egypt- the Nile River (3) Harappan- the Indus River
(1)The formal elements of art (2)The principles of design
(1)Line, shape, light, value, color, texture, space (2)unity and variety, balance, emphasis and focal point, proportion and scale, rhythm.
Form, subject matter, and content
-Form: the way a work of art looks; the materials (media) that went into the creation of a work. -medium; media -Subject matter: recognizable subject -content: what a work of art says; its meaning or message.
Sympathetic magic
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arcade
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hieroglyphs
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mosaic
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naos/cella
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tesserae
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Akhenaton and Nefertiti
Akhenaton initiated both religious and artistic revolutions. Nefertiti- A painted limestone bust. Influential woman during her husband's kingship.
Expressive
All about emotion
Composition
Arrangement of the formal elements
Fine arts vs. functional arts
Fine arts: AKA visual arts -The pictorial arts (2-dimensional works of art) -sculpture (3-dimensional works of art) -architecture (fine building) Functional(applied) arts -Form: the way a work of art looks; the materials (media) that went into the creation of a work. -medium; media -Subject matter: recognizable subject -content: what a work of art says; its meaning or message. -iconography (lit. "writing of images"): the study of symbolism in visual art.
Ziggurat
Neo-Sumerian, Ur, pyramid.
Nonrepresentational/nonobjective
No recognizable object is being shown
Post- and - lintel construction
Oldest building form of construction and most basic; also known as trabeated
Democracy
People are in power.
Cuneiform
System of writing that the sumerians came up with.
conventions
The accepted way of doing things in society.
Realism
Very little emotional content
Apotropaic
Wart off evil
classical
of the highest rank
Demos
people
colonnade
platform for the greek temple
aggrandizement
propoganda
representationalism
re-present
weight-shift principle
shifting weight from one side to the other. suggest real movement.
