Chapter 15 & 2
The archaeologist who discovered the temple of Knossos on the island of Crete was___?
Arthur Evans
Who was the prthenon for?
Athena
The artist___created the Pop Art-like construction entitled The Liberation of Aunt Jemima in 1972. The painting announces the necessity of change for the Africian American in this society.
Betye Saar
Demeter (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Ceres. Goddess of grain; agriculture. Mother of persophone
what did Andy Warhol create that was condidere "Pop art?"
Marilyn Monroe Diptych
The painter who worked in a style known as "color field painting" in which there is no subject but merely one or two large squares or rectangles of varying color on a field of color was...
Mark Rothko
Who created the painting "Green on Blue?
Mark Rothko
Ares (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Mars, God of war, weapons of war
Greek artists represented both human form and architecture in harmonious proportions derived from what?
Mathematics
Athena (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Minerva, Goddess of wisdom, weaving, protectress of Athens, owl, dove
Poseidon (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Neptune. God of the sea, horses, bulls, and earthquakes. Trident
Who is the young women w/ wings (Victory)
Nike
Who was known for "Commercial art?"
Norman Rockwell
How was Dionysus born?
Out of Zeus's thigh
The major surviving architectural monument of the Minoans is the...?
Palace of Minos at Knossos
What is the second function of Joseph Campbells myth/ religion?
Present single cosmological image that will inform, and center the individual in relation to his/ her environment. (Cosmological or "scientific" )
What is the first function of Joseph Campbells myth/ religion.
Reconciling Consciousness to the Preconditions of its own existence, "Life eats life"
Second generation of greeks?
Rhea and Cronus
Who created the Spiral Jetty?
Robert Smithson
What is Cronus's roman name?
Saturn
Who was the first to look at civilization on Crete?
Sir Arthur Evans
Who reconstructed the Grand Staircase?
Sir Arthur Evans ("Matriarchy")
The period between the end of WW1 (1945) and the fall of the soviet Union (1991) was known as thw what?
The Cold War
Third Generation of greeks?
The Olympians
During the 1960's and early 1970's many millions of people, particularly college students, took to the streets to protest what?
The Vietnam War
Which one of Judy Chicagos work changed the way people looked at her art?
The dinner party, 1979
Athena was the patron god of athens. true or false?
true
Who was Pythagoras?
was the most important presocratic thinkers, and for him, "number" was at the heart of all things especially music.
The Minoan "Snake goddess" was most likely made by women for __?
women
What was Mark Rothko's painting also known as?
"Color field painting"
How did Botticelli say Venus was born?
"The birth of Venus from the sea foam."
What did art critic Brian Sewell call Edward Kienholz?
"The latest known, most neglected and forgotten american artit.
What are the three basic attitudes found in world mythologists?
-Affirmation of life -Rejection of life -Correction and reconstruction of life
What was Greek culture based on?
-Human Reason (Humanism) -Bringing order to human existence. (order out of chaos) - The ideal (Greek ideal)
Because there is no recoginizable subject in jackson Pollock's Autumn Rythm: Number 30, the work is referred to as non-objective or...?
Abstract expressionism
In the 1960's the Theater of the ___ wss a theater in which the meaninglessness of existence is the central thematic concern.
Absurd
Who made "Christina's world?"
Andrew Wyeth
The work of___embodies the world of cheap and reproducible mass production as evidenced in his Campell Soup Cans and in Th Marilyn Monroe Disptych.
Andy Warhol
The Figurine of a Woman is what kind of art?
Cycladic Art
Persephone
Daughter of Demeter, Hades "lover."
Artemis (Twin sister of Apollo) (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Diana. Goddess of hunting, moon, childbirth. Bow and arrow, animals, especially deer
What are the three classical greek orders?
Doric, Ionic, corinthian
Who is the young man with wings?
Eros
Who created the black figure ware?
Exekies
Jackson Pollock was a German Expressionist. True or False?
False
The Parthenon is dedicated to Hera the patron goddess of Athens. True of False?
False
Who was a "Postmodern" Artist?
Frank Stella
The Guggenheim Museum in New York was the creation of the architect...
Frank lloyd Wright
Who is the first generation of the Greeks
Gaia, and Uranos
Apollo (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
God of light and sun, music, medicine, archery. Lyre; bow and arrow
Poseidon was the Greek...
God of the sea
What is the fourth function of Joseph Campbells myth/ religion?
Harmonize and deepen the psyche of the individual as he/ she passes through the major thresholds. From adulthood, old age, through death. (Psychological)
Who created the Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece
Heinrich Schlieman
What was ancient greece called?
Hellas
Ancient greeks referred to themselves as what?
Hellenes
All that is greek before Alexander is called what?
Hellenic
What is the Athenian acropolis mean?
High City
What are the two types of cyclopes in greek myth?
Homer: Polyphemus (much talking) kind, hunter-gatherer. Hesiod: "Hig tech" Makers of Zeus's thunderbolts. There are three of them: Brontes, Steropes, Arges
____ is best known for his "drip" or "action" paintings.
Jackson Pollock
Whose work was also referred to as "Drip Paintings?"
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Who created some of the paintings like "Running Fence," "Wrapped Reichstag."
Jeanne Claude
Who incorporated feminism in a lot of her work that the public refused to reognize ?
Judy Chicago
Hera (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Juno, Queen of the gods, marriage, golden sandals
Zeus (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Jupiter (Jove), King of the gods, Thunderbolt, eagle
What did Eero Saarinen create?
Kennedy Airport Terminal (New York)
Dionysos (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Liber. (Bacchus in both Greek and Roman) God of moisture in nature. Thyrsus (Long hollow stick with ivy leaves on the end)
From the evidence, the chief deities of the Minoan religion were most likely female and ___ is the best known example in sculptural form even though some scholars doubt its authenticity.
The snake goddess
In June 1963 the white singing folk trio "Peter, Paul & Mary" released the Bob Dylan song "Blowing In The Wind" which became a kind of anthem for civil rights. True or False?
True
The philosophy of Existentialism is a recent phenomenon, appearing after WW11. True or False?
True
What is the third function of Joseph Campbells myth/ religion?
Validate and maintain a certain sociological / moral order. (Social) - in this one religions differ greatly
Aphrodite (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Venus, Goddess of love and beauty; fertility. Usually attended by Eros (Cupid); dove, goose.
Hestia (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
Vesta. Goddess of fire nand hearth.
With Priam painter, what comes first black or red figures in pottery?
black
what term first appeared in ancient Greece?
democracy
All of the architectural elements of the Parthenon are executed in perfectly straight, vertical and horizontal lines. True or False
false
Together Demeter and her daughter Persephone are associated in Greek mythology with...
grain and planting
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of
love
Hades (Roman name, Function, attributes)?
pluto. God of the underworld, accompanied by Cerebus.
