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