arts2050 final exam content
Sistine chapel was painted in _________ years, in which Michelangelo invented an illusionistic architecture, painted to look like stone.
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the bayeux tapestry is one of ________ separate pieces/episodes
72
(pac cultures) Australia was settled by the ancestors of the peoples today known as ______________________________, who arrived by sea from ________________ as early as ______________________ years ago.
Aborigines; Southeast Asia; 50,000
Page from a copy of the Qur'an contains what language script
Arabic script
This Yoruba ruler is depicting wearing a cone-shaped beaded crown presenting abstracted faces of the king's ancestors.
Ariwajoye I (ruler of Orangun-lla, seated in state, 1977)
artist who was allowed to visit an actual harem, a rare privilege for a man, not to mention a European.
Delacroix
Buddha means
"awakened" one
Haft manzar means __________________ and is the story of ___________________ written by 16th century poet ___________________ inspired Shaykhzada's Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion.
"seven portraits" story of Bahram Gur's infatuation with the portraits of seven princesses poet: Hatifi
haboku technically means ___________ and is a metaphor for..?
"splashed ink" sudden enlightenment
A nkondi begins its life as a plain carved figure, commissioned from a sculptor like any other. To empower it, the ritual specialist .... adds _______________which are linked to....
(to its surface) packets of materials that are linked to the dead and the dire punishments that the nkondi will be asked to inflict
describe baroque art
- full of emotion, energy and movement, favoring ornamentation, as rich and complex as possible - Colors are more vivid than in the Renaissance - greater contrast between colors and between light and dark.
terra cotta army was discovered in what year
1974
By _______________ B.C.E., we can identify developed cultures in three important centers: (which are?)
3000 BCE; 1. Northwest Coast of NA 2. fertile plateaus + coastal lowlands of MA 3. Pacific Coast of SA
what 3 elements became an important device for Islamic artists as a result of Islamic doctrine forbidding images of animate beings in religious context? (book arts)
1. geometric patterns 2. stylized plant forms 3. decorative script
3 media types of African art (besides wood) found in through excavations
1. stone 2. metal 3. terra cotta
Much of the spirit embodied in the Harlem Renaissance had to do with merging three experiences: (which are?) 1. 2. 3.
1. the rich heritage of Africa 2. the ugly legacy of slavery in America (ended barely more than fifty years earlier) 3. the realities of modern urban life.
bowl w a mountain sheep DATE
1000-1150 CE
(Curtis' 1907 photo, Navajo Zahadolzha Masker) The Navajo people arrived in the Southwest between __________ and_________________. after a long migration from their original lands in _______________.
1200-1500 CE; Alaska
the Sistine chapel has a high-vaulted ceiling __________ ft long and ______ ft wide
128 x44
landscape, which is the example of haboku technique, was created in what year>
1495
By 1500 Inca rule extended for some ________________ miles along the ______________- Coast.
1500 pacific
The Kwakwaka'wakw transformation mask with both open and closed forms, was published in Robert Bruce Inverarity's book, Art of the Northwest Coast Indians, in the year of.... _______________? why?
1950 inspired Seahawks logo
Basquiat was born in Brooklyn of _______________________ heritage, speaking English, Spanish and French. He drew his energy from street life, the punk scene, the early years of hip hop, and the __________________ images that then were appearing on subways, storefronts, and almost every urban surface.
Basquiat; Afro-Carribean graffiti
The invention of painting the dramatic way with light and dark was the invention of ___________________.
Caravaggio (note: Set on a diagonal, the slab seems to project forward from the picture plane and into our space, involving us in the action.)
_________________ was An international art movement that emerged during World War I (1914-18). Believing that society itself had gone mad, [the movement] refused to ___________________ or to provide any sort of aesthetic refuge or comfort. Instead, it created "_________________" that emphasized absurdity, irrationality, chance, whimsy, irony, and childishness.
Dada make sense; "anti-art"
The bodhisattva _________________ was believed by Chinese to reside high on a mountain and offer special protection to all who traveled the sea.
Guanyin (Carved from wood, Guanyin sits in a position known as the pose of royal ease.)
Shaykhzada's Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion is from a manuscript of poet Hatifi's ____________________
Haft Monzar (seven portraits)
The Great Wave of Kanagawa is a woodblock print (w ink and color on paper) created by.... ?
Hokusai
__________ and _______ Indians make doll-size versions of kachina as educational playthings so that....
Hopi and Zuni children may learn to identify and understand the numerous spirits.
Picasso looked for inspiration from ancient traditions of __________________ and _________________.
Iberia and africa
this piece features "Two Marquesan men showing the different stages of the lifelong tattooing process." what is the title, year? media: ________________ __________________ engraving after original drawings by Wilhelm Gottlieb ____________________ (3 words)
Inhabitants of the Island of Nuku Hiva. 1813. Hand-colored copperplate engraving after original drawings by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau.
which painting/artist is this referring to? A famous "sensational" painting shown in the "Salon des Refuses" ("showing off thosewho have been refused"),
Luncheon on the grass (1863) Manet
the rose window is dedicated to ___________, who is portrayed at the center of the stain glass piece
Mary, mother of Jesus (depicted at the center as the queen of heaven! radiating from her are windows portraying doves and angels, biblical kings, symbols of French royalty, and prophets.)
____________________describes a region that extends from north of the Valley of Mexico(the location of present-day Mexico City) through the western portion of modern Honduras.
Mesoamerica
the second wave in the great wave of kanawago represents the shape of?
Mount Fuji
Edward Curtis is associated w which piece? include year and media?
Navajo Zahadolzha Masker; 1907; photograph *the ZA HAD OL' ZHSAUCE lol*
_____________ is an African culture that inspired works with characteristic smooth surfaces and d-shaped eyes, including "Head, fragment of a larger figure"
Nok
In the niches along the sides of the Sistine chapel ceiling is the _______________________ and _______________________ gifted with prophecy.
Old Testament prophets; Ancient Greek sybilswomen
Ariwajoye I was the ruler of what
Orangun-lla
The process of writing on this page is considered an act of prayer
Page from a copy of the Qur'an (Ahmad al-Suhrawardi, calligrapher. 1307. Ink, colors and gold on paper)
Basquiat first attracted attention in his teens with brief graffitied phrases-critical, cryptic, poetic, philosophical-tagged _________________. Many of the sayings were spray painted on walls near art galleries and directed at the __________ world. People noticed.
SAMO; art world
Luncheon on the grass was a famous "sensational" painting shown in the "_____________________" (which means "__________________________________"). The artist, ________________ was the most controversial artist of his time.
Salon des Refuses; "showing off those who have been refused" Manet
the Great stupa is found in what part of the world
Sanchi, India
found in Bukhara and painted in 1538
Shaykhzada's Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion
A complex, flattened architectural setting with strong colors, floor coverings piled pattern on pattern are tilted toward the picture plane. describes which piece?
Shaykhzada's Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion (1538; from a manuscript of Hatifi's Haft Manzar)
The first Qin emperor who ordered the crafting of a huge terra-cotta army was named
Shihuangdi
Nigerian-British artist, ______________________, is known for installations featuring ____________ mannequins dressed in 18th or 19th century-style clothing made of colorful ________________________ cloth. Shonibare explores issues of _____________ influence and _______________-influence.
Shonibare, MBE headless cultural cross
real name of buddha was
Siddhartha Gautama
example of post-impressionsim
Te Aa No Areois (Gauguin, 1892)
pyramid of the sun can be found in what part of Mexico
Teotihuacan
__________________________ is like a long picture book-20 inches high and 231 feet long-telling the story of the conquest of England by William of Normandy in 1066.
The Bayeux Tapestry
buddhas remains are found in....
The Great Stupa *Pilgrims come to be near the energy that is believed to emanate from the Buddha's remains and visit the stupa by ritually walking around it
_________________________________ was made up of painters associated with the first major postwar art movement, also known as ______________________
The New York School // Abstract Expressionists
symbolism of meetings of the Maori ppl taking place within the meeting house = ".. Meetings thus take place within the god, which is to say within the __________________, _________________, and _________________ of him. "
protection, sanction, authority
3-worded last name of the artist who created the copperplate engraving "Inhabitants of the Island of Nuku Hiva."?
Tilesius von Tilenau
Fountain (Duchamp) is _______________ piece that's part of the _________________ movement
ready-made; dada
Navajo spirits were called
Yei
(Curtis' 1907 photo, Navajo Zahadolzha Masker) The Navajo called their spirits _____________, meaning ___________________________. Spirit masks such as this one might have appeared at the climax of a particular elaborate _____________________ ceremony, during which their powers had been invoked through a ________________________.
Yei Holy People healing sand painting
the Sistine chapel ceiling painted by Michelangelo depicts what along the central spine ?
a series of nine pictorial spaces, depicting scenes from Genesis, from the creation of the world through the story of Noah and the Flood.
The linear patterns of hatching and cross-hatching are characteristic of much ______________________ art.
aboriginal
Djalambu is example of what kind of art
aboriginal art (aboriginal art is intimately connected with the religious beliefs known as Dreamtime// the Dreaming....... central form is a log coffin which reps a "catfish in the river" and often involves hatching/crosshatching)
the physical act of applying paint to a support in bold, spontaneous gestures which supplies the expressive content
action painting example: Pollock's Number 1 (1949), enamel & metallic paint on canvas
Pollock's Number 1 is an example of _______________ painting, which was popularized by the first major postwar art movement, ______________________
action painting; The New York School/ abstract expressionism
what was the Sistine chapel named after
an earlier pope named Sixtus
Machu Picchu is set high in the ________________ Mountains overlooking a ....... ?hairpin turn in the Urubamba river thousands of feet below.
andes mountains hairpin turn in the Urubamba river thousands of feet below.
the Bayeux tapestry shows a scene of shows a group of _____________________, who fought on foot, making a stand on a hill against a Norman cavalry assault.
anglo-saxons (conquest of England by William of normandy)
________________ often serves as an agent to bring about some desired state of affairs, usually through contact with ________________________
art in africa; spirit powers
the technique of creating a sculpture by grouping or piecing together distinct elements. An assembled sculpture may be called an assemblage.
assembling
The lands of the Pacific include the continent of ______________________ and the thousands of islands grouped together as ___________________, "lands of the ocean."
australia; oceania
Colors of __________ art are more vivid than in the Renaissance, with greater contrast between colors and between light and dark.
baroque
las meninas is an example of ____________ art
baroque
st teresa in estasy is an example of what kind of art
baroque
_______________________ is full of emotion, energy and movement, favoring ornamentation, as rich and complex as possible. Colors are more vivid than in the Renaissance, with greater contrast between colors and between light and dark.
baroque art
a saintly being who helps others attain enlightenment
bodhisattva
(pac culture/aboriginal art)' The central form of ab. art is a _________________________ , which is understood to represent a _______________ in the river. The linear patterns of __________________ and _____________________ are characteristic of much Aboriginal art.
central form: log coffin = catfish in the river hatching cross-hatching
Buffalo hides provided not only ___________________ (here it would have ben worn around the shoulders as a robe) but also _________________ in the form of covering for tents, ________________
clothing (here it would have ben worn around the shoulders as a robe) shelter; tipis
Brilliant _________________________ appears with the angry wave rearing up with claws of foam, with the second wave in the foreground echoing the shape of _________________________, which appears calm and serene, its sloping sides leading up to a majestic snowcapped peak. The Great Wave at Kanagawa has become an icon of Japanese art, famous around the world.
contrast mount fuji
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is an example of what kind of art
cubism
movement developed in the early 20th century that abstracted the forms of the visible world into fragments or facets drawn from multiple points of view, then constructed an image from them which had its own internal logic. A severely restricted palette (black, white, brown) and a painting technique of short, distinct "touches" allowed shards of figure and ground to interpenetrate in a shallow, shifting space.
cubism
(aboriginal art) Dreamtime includes 1) the _______(2)____________, when ancestral beings emerged from the Earth. Their actions shaped the _____________________ and gave rise to all forms of life within in, including humans. and 2) Dreamtime also exists in the _____________________, and each individual is connected to it. With age a person draws closer to the realm of ancestors, and at death the spirit is reabsorbed into the Dreaming.
distant past ; landscape present
Djalambu media?
earth pigments on bark
terra cotta army: thousands of life-sized figures repping soldiers, archers, cavalrymen, and charioteers-facing _____________, the direction from which danger was expected to come.
east
a technique in which colored yarns are sewn to an existing woven background
embroidery
realism was an art style of of the mid-19th century which fostered the idea that _______________________ are fit subjects for important art.
everyday people and events
A most important work of this time (______________ art), The Dinner Party is a _____________________ work with the help of hundreds of women and several men. Chicago demanded artistic equality for media (ceramics, weaving, needlepoint, embroidery) associated with "women's work".
feminist art / feminism collaborative
(Gaugin, artist of Te Aa No Areois) To this lightened palette (of post-imp art) he added his own innovations: ________________ forms and __________ color areas, a strong __________________, _________________ color harmonies, a taste for the exotic, an aura of ______________, and a quest for the "______________________"
flattened forms and broad color areas; strong outline; tertiary color harmonies aura of mystery "primitive"
"Cake Man is essentially about _______________, the burden of carrying wealth and never having enough. Even though it weighs you down, you still want more"
greed
Gauguin (Te Aa No Areois) believed that European art had been in thrall for too long to the legacy of ________________ and _______________, and he looked to the art of _______________, Islam and Asia to renew it.
greek and Rome; Egypt
Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli) turned to stories of ______________________ gods and goddesses for subject matter
greek and roman
painting technique used by zen priest painters as a metaphor for sudden enlightenment
haboku "splashed ink"
eliminating theart object and staging events
happenings
The Women of Algiers portrays three women and their servant in a __________________, the women's apartment of an Islamic palace.
harem *** Delacroix had apparently been allowed to visit an actual harem, a rare privilege for a man, not to mention a European.
In the United States, the period following World War 1 saw the flowering of art dedicated to building a better society... this time, known as the ________________________ was one of the most vibrant movements of time. It was and is home to many black Americans, of all economic classes.
harlem renaissance
(1880 -hide painted w scenes of warfare") Clearly visible are the feathered ___________________ made from the tail feathers of ____________________. Only a proven warrior was permitted to wear one in battle.
headdresses; eagles
1880 -hide painted w scenes of warfare") __________________ provided a surface on which Plains men recorded their exploits as warriors. Drawn by _______________ warriors, the images here record a battle between the Lakota and the _______________.
hides; Lakota; Crow
Ariwajoye I is depicted in his sculpture with a beaded veil obscuring his face b/c?
his subjects are not allowed to gaze directly on a sacred being.
The _______________ was brought to America by Spanish colonists and spread throughout ____________________ cultures over the course of the 18th century.
horse; indian
in his painting of the Sistine chapel, michelango created a _______________ architecture, where it was painted to look like ______________
illusionistic stone
_______________________ arose in opposition to the academic art of the day. In subject matter, Impressionism followed Realism in portraying daily life, especially the leisure activities of the middle class.
impressionism
Performances may range from ______________________ to highly ________________, and from actions of ________________ to elaborately staged _________________.
improvisatory // scripted daily life // spectacles
(The Women of Algiers) Geographically, the closest "exotic" cultures to Europe were the _______________________________. To European thinking, these were part of ___________________, a realm imagined as sensuous and seductive, full of barbaric splendor and cruelty.
islamic lands of North Africa; the Orient
Much of the artwork from Africa is lost to us bc???
it was made of perishable material such as wood.
Shaykhzada's Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion shows a setting which resembles the square frame and arched opening of an ______________, the pervasive Persian architecture form that might well have graced a pavilion built for an Indian princess.
iwan
An art style of of the mid-19th century which fostered the idea that everyday people and events are fit subjects for important art
realism
The _____________________ cultures of the Southwest acknowledge numerous supernatural beings called ___________________ (named from the ____________ ___________________). Danced by maskers, they enter into the community at important time to bring blessings.
kachina; Hopi Katsina
mimbres often seem to have been ritually ________________, either by shattering or, as in bowl with a mountain sheep, by being pierced with a hole. The act draws a parallel with the _____________________, which is a vessel for a soul. In death, the vessel is __________________, and the soul released.
killed; human body; broken
las meninas was painted for which king?
king Philip IV of Spain
ex of realism
luncheon on the grass (manet, 1863)
on the east gate with yaks hi, the yakshi enlaces her arms in a ______________ tree, which has blossomed at the sound of her laughter. Together with her numerous companions on the other gateways, she showers blessings of abundance on the site and all who enter it.
mango
The Dadaist with the most lasting impact on American Art in the 20th century was ____________________ whose "______________________________" probed the border between art and life in away that later generations have returned to again and again.
marcel Duchamp ready-mades
Chicago demanded artistic equality for _________________ (ceramics, weaving, needlepoint, embroidery) associated with "__________________________".
media; women's work
bowl with a mountain sheep is an example of ....
mimbres
The word ____________________ is associated with a type of ceramic vessel developed about 1000 C.E. decorated with geometric designs or with ________________ figures of animals or humans, often appeared as paired figures.
mimbres; stylized
Mesoamerican pyramids were symbolically understood as _________________.
mountains
The hand gestures of the Buddha, called __________________, indicate preaching.
mudras
Nkondi figure can be closely compared to _________________________ (what art) in regards to both pieces' cultural inspiration and impact gained/intended from the African art
nick cave's soundsuits (as well as Yoruba ruler and Nowo masquerade)
A ______________ begins its life as a plain carved figure, commissioned from a sculptor like any other. To empower it, the ritual specialist adds packets of materials to its surface, materials linked to the dead and to the dire punishments the ______________ will be asked to inflict. Over the years, nails and other materials accumulate, offering visual testimony to the ___________'s fearsome prowess. (all the same word)
nkondi
the Buddha ("awakened") strove to extinguish desire by cultivating __________________ ? to that end he proposed the .....
nonattachment eightfold path of moral and ethical behavior
Baroque art is full of emotion, energy and movement, favoring ___________________, as rich and complex as possible.
ornamentation
aboriginal art is associated w/ which cultures
pacific cultures (australia + oceania)
_____________________________: An event or action carried out by an artist and offered as art. In widespread use since the ______________ , [the term] is an umbrella term that embraces earlier practices such as happenings and events staged by ________________ artists.
performance art (body art) 1970s Dada
cubism -- abstracted the forms of the visible world into fragments/facets drawn from multiple ________________________________ then constructed an image from them which had its own internal logic. A severely restricted )___________________ (black, white, brown) and a painting technique of short, distinct "touches" allowed shards of ____________ and ground to interpenetrate in a shallow, shifting _______________.
points of view ; palette figure space
painter of the Sistine chapel, Michelangelo was called to Rome by _____________________
pope Julius ii
bodhisattva Guanyin sits in position known as ...?
pose of royal ease
_______________________________ = art type where artists were united in rejecting the relative absence of form that could be found in optical perceptions of light characteristic of impressionism.
post-impressionism
mudras indicate....
preaching
aboriginal art)) ..... Dreamtime also exists in the present, and each individual is connected to it! With age a person draws closer to the ______________ of ________________, and at death the spirit is reabsorbed into the _____________________.
realm of ancestors Dreaming
renaissance means
rebirth
____________________ urged the claims of emotion, intuition, individual experience, and, above all, the ______________________. [these kinds of] artists gloried in such subjects as mysterious or awe-inspiring _____________________, picturesque ruins, extreme or tumultuous human events, the struggle for liberty, and scenes of exotic culture.
romanticism imagination landscapes
The Aztecs viewed the city Teotihuacan (where Pyramid of the Sun is found) as a ....?
sacred site where the gods had created the universe
"the orient" was a realm imagined as _______________ and seductive, full of barbaric splendor and ________________
sensuous; cruelty note: the orient is the term for a realm of lands that Europeans during romanticism thought to have "exotic cultures" and thus were often the subject of romantic art (closest exotic culture to Europe was islamic lands of north Africa --> the women of Algiers)
dada involved deliberately _____________ or _______________ works, actions , and events were aimed at disrupting public __________________.
shocking or provocative; complacency
referring to "Interior of a Maori meeting house" .... The house is understood as the body of the __________ father, the supreme deity of the ___________________ people of New Zealand. The ridgepole is his _________________ and the rafters are his __________________. His face is carved on the exterior, where other elements symbolize his embracing ___________. Meetings thus take place within the god, which is to say within the protection, sanction, and authority.
sky Maori spine ribs arms
__________________ and ____________________ are characteristic of works from the culture known as Nok, named after the town in Nigeria where the first examples of its art were found.
smooth surfaced and D-shaped eyes
Kachina dolls were believed to contain ....?
some of the power of the spirit they represented.
birth of Venus is an example of...?
southern/italian renaissance
in las meninas..... Although it shows a formal occasion, the painting of an official portrait, Velazquez has given the scene a warm, "everyday" quality. The theatricality of Baroque is more subtle by the device of ____________________. in other words, las meninas is an example of what artistic technique?
spotlighting
(Machu Picchu) Part of the boulder is subtly sculpted to create a _____________ and chamber. The Inca believed stones and people to be ___________ and ___________
staircase; equally alive and capable of changing into one another.
H renaissance lasted only a decade: its momentum was stopped by the ______________________ of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression of the 1930's.
stock market crash
A solid earthen mound faced with stone contains buddhas remains
stupas
A movement of the early 20th century that emphasized imagery from dreams and fantasies example is ?
surrealism the persistence of memory
Te Aa No Areois (The Seed of Areoi) was painted about a year into Gauguin's first long stay in ________________
tahiti
the Kachina Doll portrays a kachina named ____________________________ The spirit wears a ____________________________ around its waist and a _________________ mask. "In their right hands they carried a _________________________, which they shook with vigor when they danced, and in the left hand, a bundle of __________________________, tied up in corn husk."
tamtam kushokta white Hopi blanket; coyote
( Machu Picchu) Builders leveled off the site to create a small plateau and constructed ____________ for houses and agriculture.
terraces
associated with haboku (splashed ink), this is one of the enduring strengths of Japanese culture
the ability to absorb and transform new ideas while keeping older traditions vital
"Mesoamerica" describes a region that extends from north of..... through the western portion of ....?
the Valley of Mexico; modern Honduras.
Possibly the most famous of all Surrealist works is Dali's ___________________________. His renderings of super-realistic forms is precise and meticulous, yet the forms could not possibly be real..... Perhaps in this work Dali's fantasy, his dream, is to triumph once and for all over ______________________.
the persistence of memory time
Te Aa No Areois means...
the seed of areoi
Nok was named after ?
the town in Nigeria where the first examples of this kind of art were found (Nok: terracotta sculptures of human heads, human figures, and animals. **One of the identifying characteristics of Nok sculptures is the triangular or oval-shaped eyes on human faces.)
example of romanticism
the women of Algiers
explain title of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...... it was not Picasso's title but was given to the painting years later by a friend of his. It translates as "__________________________________" and refers to the ________________ of Avignon Street, a notorious district of ________________________, Picasso's hometown.
the young women of Avignon prostitutes Barcelona
Arranged around a triangular table are ____________________ place settings, each one created in honor of an influential woman, such as Egyptian ruler _________________ and the novelist ________________________. The names of an additional _________ important women are written on the floor.
thirty-nine; Hatshepsut; Virginia Woolf 999
(ref to Kachina Doll) "In their right hands they carried a _________________________, which they shook with vigor when they danced, and in the left hand, a bundle of __________________________, tied up in corn husk."
tortoise-shell rattle prayer sticks
The act of tattooing was considered sacred by the Marquesans, performed ritually by a specialist, ___________________, who invoked the protective presence of specific deities.
tukuka (Inhabitants of the Island of Nuku Hiva. 1813.)
referring to "Interior of a Maori meeting house" .... The freestanding figures that support the ridgepole from inside portray ancestors with knees bent in the aggressive posture of the __________________ dance, reminding the living of their ___________________ and great ______________________.
war dance courage and great deeds
The Great Wave of Kanagawa is what media
woodblock print (ink and color on paper)
nature spirit embodying ideas of fertility and abundance which is thought to cause trees to bear fruit ?
yakshi
