ARTS2050 Final

Beginning around ______ B.C.E. and continuing over the next four thousand years, the Paleolithic Period, or Old Stone Age, gradually gave way to the Neolithic, or New Stone Age.

9000

is intimately connected with the religious beliefs known as Dreamtime or the Dreaming. Dreamtime includes the distant past, when ancestral beings emerged from the Earth. Their actions shaped the landscape and gave rise to all forms of life within it, including humans. Dreamtime also exists in the present, 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

Aboriginal Art

the physical act of applying paint to a support in bold, spontaneous gestures supplies the expressive content

Action painting

More than any other time in history, the entire range of humankind's artistic past nourishes its present.

Ancient Mediterranean Worlds

By _______ ____, we can identify developed cultures in three important centers: the Northwest Coast of North America, the fertile plateaus and coastal lowlands of Mesoamerica, and the Pacific Coast of South America.

3000 B.C.E

An event or action carried out by an artist and offered as art. In widespread use since the 1970s, performance art is an umbrella term that embraces earlier practices such as happenings and events staged by Dada artists. Performances may range from improvisatory to highly scripted, and from actions of daily life to elaborately staged spectacles

Body Art and Performance

-This is a page form the Qur'an -Interlacing plant forms ornament -It contains Arabic (Kufic) script -The process of writing on this page is considered an act of prayer

Book Art

provided not only clothing (here it would have ben worn around the shoulders as a robe) but also shelter in the form of covering for tents, tipis (also spelled "tepees"). Hides provided a surface on which Plains men recorded their exploits as warriors. Drawn by Lakota warriors, the images here record a battle between the Lakota and the Crow. Clearly visible are the feathered headdresses made from the tail feathers of eagles. Only a proven warrior was permitted to wear one in battle

Buffalo hides

A 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

An international art movement that emerged during World War I (1914-18). Believing that society itself had gone mad, Dada refused to make sense or to provide any sort of aesthetic refuge or comfort. Instead, it created "anti-art" that emphasized absurdity, irrationality, chance, whimsy, irony, and childishness. Deliberately shocking or provocative works, actions, and events were aimed at disrupting public complacency

Dada

Sculptors of the late Classical period had begun admitting female nudes into the public realm-though only as goddesses or mythological characters (Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty and fertility)

Greece

("seven portraits", by the 16th century Persian poet, Hatifi, tells of Bahram Gur's infatuation with the portraits of seven princesses.) A complex, flattened architectural setting with strong colors, floor coverings piled pattern on pattern are tilted toward the picture plane. The setting above resembles the square frame and arched opening of an iwan, the pervasive Persian architecture form that might well have graced a pavilion built for an Indian princess.

Haft Manzar

In the United States, the period following World War 1 saw the flowering of art dedicated to building a better society. The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most vibrant movements of time. It was and is home to many black Americans, of all economic classes. Much of the spirit embodied in the Harlem Renaissance had to do with merging three experiences: the rich heritage of Africa, the ugly legacy of slavery in America (ended barely more than fifty years earlier) and the realities of modern urban life. It lasted only a decade: its momentum was stopped by the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression of the 1930's.

Harlem Renaissance

One of the enduring strengths of Japanese culture is the ability to absorb and transform new ideas while keeping older traditions vital.

Japanese culture

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 ________ people arrived in the Southwest between 1200 and 1500 C.E. after a long migration from their original lands in Alaska.

Navajo

The lands of the Pacific include the continent of Australia and the thousands of islands grouped together as Oceania, "lands of the ocean." Australia was settled by the ancestors of the peoples today known as Aborigines, who arrived by sea from Southeast Asia as early as 50,000 years ago.

Pacific Cultures

The ______ culture that formed to the west was nomadic, organized around the herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains. The horse was brought to America by Spanish colonists and spread throughout Indian cultures over the course of the 18th century

Plains

Artists were united in rejecting the relative absence of form than could be found in optical perceptions of light characteristic of Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

a work of art that the artist has not made but designated.

Ready-mades

An art style of the mid-19th century which fostered the idea that everyday people and events are fit subjects for important art

Realism

Geographically, the closest "exotic" cultures to Europe were the Islamic lands of North Africa. To European thinking, these were part of "the Orient" - a realm imagined as sensuous and seductive, full of barbaric splendor and cruelty

Romanticism

urged the claims of emotion, intuition, individual experience, and, above all, the imagination. Romantic artists gloried in such subjects as mysterious or awe-inspiring landscapes, picturesque ruins, extreme or tumultuous human events, the struggle for liberty, and scenes of exotic culture

Romanticism definition

Excavated figures from the "terra-cotta army" guarding the tomb of the First Emperor of Qin (d. 210 B.C.E.) Xian, China. Terra-Cotta The first Qin emperor, __________, ordered the crafting of a huge terra-cotta army. Discovered in 1974, row upon row the life-sized figures stand in their thousands-soldiers, archers, cavalrymen, and charioteers-facing east, the direction from which danger was expected to come.

Shihuangdi

Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha ("awakened") strove to extinguish desire by cultivating nonattachment, and to that end he proposed the eightfold path of moral and ethical behavior After his death, his cremated remains were distributed among eight memorial mounds called STUPAS (a solid earthen mound faced with stone). 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

Stupas

A movement of the early 20th century that emphasized imagery from dreams and fantasies

Surealism

viewed the city as a sacred site where the gods had created the universe. Mesoamerican pyramids were symbolically understood as mountains

The Aztecs

painters associated with the first major post war art movement, also known as Abstract Expressionists

The New York School

these civilizations - the "worlds" of our title - were preceded by far older human societies about which we know very little. Scattered evidence of their existence reaches us over a vast distance of tens of thousands of years, fascinating, mysterious and mute

The Oldest Art

-geometric patterns -stylized plant forms -decorative script

The following became an important device for Islamic artists as a result of Islamic doctrine forbidding images of animate beings in religious context

Found near ___________, a town near present day Austria, often serves as an emblem of art history's beginnings. Less than 5 inches tall, scholars long assumed that they were fertility figures, used in some symbolic way to encourage pregnancy and childbirth or they testify to a widely shared belief system that evolved over time

Willendorf

nature spirit embodying ideas of fertility and abundance. In Indian thought, it was held that women were able to cause trees to blossom or bear fruit. Here, the yakshi enlaces her arms in a mango 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

Yakshi

temples or shrines raised on a monumental stepped base

Ziggurats

A most important work of this time, The Dinner Party is a collaborative work with the help of hundreds of women and several men. Arranged around a triangular table are thirty-nine place settings, each one created in honor of an influential woman, such as Egyptian ruler Hatshepsut and the novelist Virginia Woolf. The names of an additional 999 important women are written on the floor

feminist art

Zen priest-painters used a painting technique called ________, "splashed ink" as a metaphor to express sudden enlightenment

haboku

The Pueblo cultures of the Southwest acknowledge numerous supernatural beings called kachina (from the Hopi Katsina). Danced by maskers, kachina enter into the community at important time to bring blessings. Hopi and Zuni Indians make doll-size versions of kachina as educational playthings so that children may earn to identify and understand the numerous spirits.

kachina

The word ______ is associated with a type of ceramic vessel developed about 1000 C.E. decorated with geometric designs or with stylized figures of animals or humans, often appeared as paired figures. As grave goods the vessels often seem to have been ritually "killed," either by shattering or, as here, by being pierced with a hole. The act draws a parallel with the human body, which is a vessel for a soul. In death, the vessel is broken, and the soul released

mimbres

Much of the artwork from Africa is lost to us because it was made of ___________ _________ such as wood. Nevertheless, excavations during the 20th century have revealed many fascinating works in stone, metal and terracotta.

perishable material

rebirth

renaissance means