ARCHITECTURAL TRADITIONS
Dating back to Neolithic times, this construction system can be found in many megalithic structures.
What is post and lintel?
Where do we first see it?
Piet Mondrian worked within this concept of representing the inner visual balance of nature through opposing forces.
What is theosophy?
Kathe Kollwitz and Giotto share this thematic continuity of this public display of grief.
What is the lamentation?
Vanishing by the time of the Classical Period of Greece, this facial convention was used as an expression of a figure's eternal transcendence.
What is the archaic smile?
what other expressions represent wisdom?
Marking a stylistic shift coinciding with monotheism, this work depicts the human figure with elongated and more curvilinear forms
What is Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters?What is this style/period known as?
This floor-plan emerges as a result of Christian pilgrimages, as seen in the Church of Sainte Foy.
What is a cruciform plan?
Emerging in Dutch Baroque art, this painting motif is a reminder of the transience of earthly life/certainty of death.
What is a vanitas image?
Which work(s) do we find this in?
This direct line of visual influence can be found between the Egyptians and the Greeks as seen in Anavysos Kouros and King Menkaure and Queen.
What is Pharaoh/Striding Pose?
What are the visual elements of this pose?
This painting/artist represents a shift in Renaissance thinking by depicting the figure as love without being mythological, neoplatonic, or religious.
What is "Venus of Urbino" by Titian.
What conceptual tradition does this begin? examples?
In Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," we see Christianity attaching itself to classic Greek (pagan) values via this Renaissance concept.
What is Neoplatonism?
This architectural stonework can be found throughout the world in places like Cusco, Borobudur, Zimbabwe, and Nan Modal.
What is ashlar masonry?
What is this term describing?
This technique displays the most important figure in an artwork as larger than others.
What is hierarchical scale?
examples?
Not unlike the Hellenistic "Seated Boxer," the nude body once again becomes a veneration of expression in this work.
What is Donatello's "David?"
What other work shares this material technique?
The Virgin of Guadalupe represents a merging of Christian European ideas with Indigenous deities through the use of this material technique.
What is enconchado?
How is this used symbolically in this piece?
In their art, the Achaemenid/Persian Empire depicted its subject states in this manner.
What is favorably/culturally intact?
Why would they do this? Where do we see it?
Who in the ancient world famously does not do this?
Despite having a dramatically different exterior, the Great Mosque at Djenné shares these Islamic hallmarks on the interior.
What are the qibla wall and mihrab?
What are these features denoting?
Beginning roughly with the Impressionists, this concept would become the primary visual element for Modernists to critique academic traditions.
What is drawing attention to the flatness of the picture plane? (i.e. destroying pictorial space)
How do they accomplish this?
Tracing its origins to India before spreading east and west, the stupa can be visualized as what?
What is the Buddha's body in meditation?
What other representations does it signify?
Hokusai's woodcuts (like the Great Wave off Kanagawa) embraced these European traditions in order to create an artistic change in ukiyo-e prints of Japan. (multiple answers)
What is the use of Prussian Blue? Coming from where?
What is the use of atmospheric perspective?
What artists in turn are inspired by Hokusai's work?
For many cultures and time periods, creating an expression of power often means treating the figure this way.
What is less naturalistic/more abstract?
Why/how would less realistic depictions be connected to power?
Where do we see this/what are some examples?
This architectural concept seeks to integrate and harmonize structures within their natural environments.
What is Organic Architecture?
Where can we find this concept?
This concept is the deliberate and systematic attempt to influence perception and affect behavior.
What is propaganda? What artworks would be considered this?
Despite being an example of Modernist expression, the Seagram Building maintains its connection to tradition by the use of what elements?
What are classical elements (fluted columns, stylobate step, use of bronze)?
What other traditions might it reference?
What other Modernist architect reimagines classical architecture?
This movement of artists sought to undermine the very institution of the gallery by creating work outside of it.
What is Earthworks (or Land Art)?
Which artists would be related to this?
What works would have influenced them?
Through the generation of autonomous and original imagery, Modernist painters sought to do this with art.
What is reveal a universal spiritual truth through color and art.