AESTHETICS
The philosophical study of beauty and its principles is called this.
(What is aesthetics?)
The French art group called les Nabis translated means this in English.
(What is "the prophets"?)
The Dome of the Rock is located in this city.
(What is Jerusalem?)
The Snake Goddess was discovered on this Greek island.
(What is Crete?)
This term describes innovative, experimental works that are "on the cutting edge."
(What is avant-garde?)
Kant believed beauty could only be appreciated when a viewer felt this, meaning pleasure free from desire.
(What is disinterested?)
Albert Bierstadt's landscape paintings were linked to this 19th-century American philosophy.
(What is Manifest Destiny?)
The Dome of the Rock was completed in 691 CE as a shrine for pilgrims of this faith.
(What is Islam?)
The snakes in the Snake Goddess figurine symbolize this concept because snakes periodically shed their skin.
(What is renewal of life/fertility?)
A grave marker, such as those from ancient Greece, is called this.
(What is a stele?)
This Romantic painter depicted beauty, violence, and ecstasy in The Death of Sardanapalus.
(Who is Eugène Delacroix?)
Emperor Augustus promoted his political agenda through this altar dedicated to the goddess of peace.
(What is the Ara Pacis?)
The dome of the Dome of the Rock was inspired by the dome of this Christian church, also in Jerusalem.
(What is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?)
Kente cloth was traditionally woven by the Ashanti people of this country.
(What is Ghana?)
The physical form of the Hindu god Vishnu is called this.
(What is an avatar?)
John Dewey wrote this 1934 book describing the aesthetic experience.
(What is Art as Experience?)
Painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard used her self-portrait to convey her high social position through her skill in this art form.
(What is portraiture?)
Winslow Homer's The Veteran in a New Field was painted shortly after these two April 1865 events.
(What are the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination?)
In Kente cloth, darker color shades were associated with this emotion.
(What is grief/grieving?)
Abstracted pictures that represent words or sounds, developed by the Egyptians around 3,400 BCE.
(What are hieroglyphs?)
Dewey described the aesthetic experience as an ongoing exchange between these three things.
(What are artist, viewer, and culture?)
Maurice Denis asserted the two-dimensionality of the picture plane by deliberately avoiding this visual illusion.
(What is the illusion of depth/perspective?)
Homer saw national healing as possible through the continuity found in these two things.
(What are the land and commonalities of work?)
A jade gui was a ritual object held by rulers as a symbol of these two things.
(What are rank and power?)
This term describes the intellectual and imaginative sensations celebrated by Romanticism that "defy measurement or explanation."
(What is the sublime?)