ART FUNDAMENTALS
It is an academic discipline that seeks to reconstruct the social, cultural, and economic contexts in which an artwork was created.
What is Art History?
A biological community of living organisms and their physical environment that are interconnected and functioning as a unit
An artwork that depicts a person, often emphasizing their facial features and personality
What is a portrait?
An ecosystem that maintains a relatively constant population size and resources over time, in a state of equilibrium.
What is a Steady-state ecosystem?
This is known as the period of rebirth.
What is Renaissance?
Artworks created within the postwar Land art movement involving large-scale outdoor installations, using earth, rocks, and other natural materials.
What are Earthworks?
Artwork created from discarded or found objects, often with a focus on recycling and repurposing materials.
What is Junk Art?
Influential piece of art criticism published in 1968 by art historian Jack Burnham.
What is Systems Esthetics?
This study of Art History begins here.
What are early cave paintings in southeastern France?
Cree artist whose paintings, films, videos, performances, and installations address histories of colonization and Indigenous culture. Created The Fourth World, 2012
Who is Kent Monkman?
ANWR stands for it.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
A Meter of Jungle was Dion’s contribution to the exhibition in the museum in 1992.
What is Arte Amazonas at Rio de Janeiro’s Museu de Arte Moderna?
This art style was characterized with intense biblical paintings of large scale.
What is Rococo?
Early project by Devine, draws attention to and resists colonial land occupation in North America.
What is the Reclamation Project?
An art exhibition that takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany, showcasing contemporary and international art.
What is Documenta?
A term used in art and environmental studies to describe the awe-inspiring, yet potentially harmful aspects of nature, often associated with pollution and environmental degradation.
What is Toxic Sublime?
An international art fair in New York City, known as New York's Art Fair.
What is The Armory Show?
A particular wing of contemporary art that engages with ecological and environmental issues, often reflecting contemporary concerns about climate change, sustainability, and the relationship between humanity and nature.
What is Contemporary eco art?
An artist, environmental scholar, and advocate who transitioned from a career as a scientist to pursue his passion for nature photography.
Who is Shubhankar Banerjee?
Refers to awe-inspiring, overwhelming, and sometimes terrifying qualities of experience evoked by grandeur, vastness, or power; the term first arose in the eighteenth-century.
What is Sublime?