Overview
Philosophy
Mythology
Overview of Art
Art from Different Time Periods
100
The name of this discipline came from the word "humanism"
What are the humanities?
100
The translation/definition for philosophy
What is "love of wisdom"?
100
A classic or legendary story that usually focuses on a particular hero or event, and explains mysteries of nature, existence, or the universe with no true basis in fact.
What is a myth?
100
Art is the human activity consisting of this - that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them
How did Leo Tolstoy define art?
100
This word translates to "rebirth"
What is the word renaissance?
200
Literature, art, music, theater, movies, television, etc.
What are the Humanistic Arts?
200
A teaching method where the teacher asks questions to guide the students to the answer(s)
What is the Socratic Method?
200
The role of gods, goddesses, warriors, and heroes in myths
Who are the common characters in myths?
200
A generally accepted way that something is usually done, especially as it relates to different styles of art
What is a convention?
200
Location of the Hagia Sofia
What is Istanbul?
300
A combination of qualities (such as shape, color and form) that pleases the senses
What is beauty?
300
The translation of the Greek word sophos
What is "wisdom"?
300
The act of studying myths
What is mythology?
300
This type of artwork is created by painting onto plaster
What is a fresco?
300
This specific style of art depicted here:
What is surrealism?
400
A response that is dominated by reason and disciplined analytical, rational, and coherent thought
What is the Apollonian response?
400
The science of reasoning
What is logic?
400
A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology (the hero is one example of this)
What is an archetype?
400
Example of two-dimensional art
What is a painting?
400
The style of architecture was developed to let more sunlight into the building (think flying buttresses, arches and stained class windows)
What is gothic architecture?
500
The process by which we identify with a character or a person
What is empathy?
500
The branch of philosophy studies beauty and/or art
What is aesthetics?
500
The name of the ancient culture whose mythology involves a creation story about the origin of the universe.
What is ancienct Greece?
500
The transference of what is experienced either outside or inside the artist to a medium of art
What is imitation?
500
This Italian family paid for many different works of art to be created and sponsored artists such as Michealangelo
Who are the Medicis?
600
This term referred to the study of the best minds or Ancient Greece and Rome (this included artists, writers, and philosophers)
What is humanism?
600
The best students at this school were invited to study philosophy
What is Plato's Academy?
600
An object that stands for something else or calls that something else to mind. This object is cultural, shared by a group of people. We do not naturally understand what this object means; we must learn its meaning
What is a symbol?
600
The element of design depicted here:
What is persepctive?
600
A manuscript where the text has been supplemented with decoration such as initials, borders and miniature illustrations
What is an illuminated manuscript?
700
A loss or lack of sympathy; estrangement or emotional separation from a character
What is alienation?
700
The branch of philosophy is concerned with what is morally good/bad or right/wrong
What is ethics?
700
This type of mythical story involves an ordinary world, a special world, and an inmost cave
What is the hero's journey?
700
Example of three-dimensional art
What is a bronze sculpture?
700
This type of artist created artwork that resembled the overall feeling one would get if you looked at something briefly
What is impressionist art?
800
A response that is dominated by feelings, intuition, and freedom from limits
What is the Dionysian response?
800
The Greek translation of the word "ethos"
What is "way of living"?
800
The myths of this ancient culture focused more on society and how to influence behavior than on understand the mysteries of the universe
What is Roman mythology?
800
The reproduction by an artist of a person or landscape with the aim of being as close to reality as possible
What is a likeness?
800
Objects that were/are valued because of their association with an important person
What is a relic?
900
Julius Ceasar is an example of this
Who was the "great mind" of Rome that was known for being a military genius and a politician?
900
A philosopher who studies reality and our existence (such as does the world really exist)
Which is a metaphysics philospher?
900
The person who created the term archetype
Who is Carl Jung?
900
The imitation of the art of classical antiquity (c. 1000 BCE - 450 CE).
What is classicism?
900
An artistic style of the mid-twentieth-century art derived from popular culture and influenced by comic books, movies, tv commercials, and billboard advertising
What is pop art?
1000
The name of the artist who created this work
Who is Frida Kahlo?
1000
A lover or pursuer of wisdom (this term pre-dates the word philosopher)
Who is a sage?
1000
This Irish author coined the term "monomyth"
Who is James Joyce?
1000
This element of art has two dimensions, length and width
What is shape?
1000
This specific Renaissance style of art depicted here:
What is chiaroscuro?
1100
This is the name of the philosopher who created the idea of Apollonian and Dionysian responses to works of art
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
1100
The youngest of the Three Great Greek philosophers
Who is Aristotle?
1100
Significance and staying power
What are two characteristics of myths?
1100
A hue’s lightness and darkness
What is value?
1100
Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso pushed art in towards this
Who are the artists who pushed art towards greater abstraction?