Old stuff
Prehistoric architecture built in with post and lintel, 2500 BC, England
What is Stonehenge?
Art that was playful and entertaining, loved by aristocracy.
What is Rococo Art
Mundane tasks and everyday scenes, no idealized themes.
What is Realism?.
Art from Comic Strips and Commercial ads.
What is Pop Art
Drawing of animals and hunting scenes on cave walls.
What is Lascaux Caves
The Book of the Dead, Pallete of Narmer and Standard of Ur all share this design trait(s)
What are registers or hierarchy of scale?
Used epic, dramatic scenes from history or novels in their artwork.
What is Romanticism
Tried to place a 2d world on a 2d surface so dissasembled their subjects and then put them back together again.
What is Cubism
Artists credited for inventing Cubism
Who are Picasso and Braque?
Encaustic relgious icon of woman on a throne, child in her lap and saints flanking her.
What is Theotokos and Child between the Saints
Revival of Classical ideals of Humanism with new ideas of perspective
What is Renaissance Art
Sketchy landscapes done in plein aire.
What is Impressionism?
Art of dreams and the subconscious mind
What is Surrealism
Non-Western style that influences Impressionism
What is Japonisme?
Burial object found in China, cylidrical, made of jade with hole. 3000 BC
What is the Jade Cong?
The concept of "order over chaos" begins here
What is Ancient Greece?
Religious, often charged with movement and emotion and tenebrism
What is Baroque Art?
Tried to show a fast moving machine propelled age.
What is Futurism
Artist known for making balloon dogs and Pink Panther
Who is Jeff Koons?
Beautiful, hand-painted, gilded books that were created during the medieval time.
What are illuminated manuscripts
Culture where women are considered equal to men, as seen on sarcophagi
Who are the Etruscans?
Analysis of the subject through color, texture, often bold or contrasting colors.
What is Post Impressionism?
Art made from everyday objects, like a urinal
What is Dadaism?
Contemporary artist who uses the themes of nirvana with digital imagery
Who is Mariko Mori?