Famous Pieces
Famous Artists
Why It's Important
Western art and Non-Western art
Latin American Art History
100
Who painted the Catalan Landscape?
Juan Miro
100
Pablo Picasso's most famous styles of art
Abstract
100
The increase of _____ makes it more necessary to understand ________.
LatinX people
LatinX art
100
Name two ways Western and non-Western art differ.
Examples: They use different mediums and techniques.
100
Around when did Spain begin the tradition of large retables?
The late Middle Ages.
200
What does the eye represent in the Catalan Landscape?
The gods looking down on us
200
Why were Frida Khalo's and Diego Rivera's art marginalized even in some parts of Latin America?
What does marginalized mean?
Because some Americans supported fascist dictators, which were more common in the 20th century.
A group/person/race treated as though they are insignificant.
200
True/false
Latin America is more than one country.
True
200
Name one medium that non-Western artists might use, then name another medium that Western artists might use.
Examples: canvas, rice paper; stone/metal, wood/beads
200
What other types of art not including painting were dominant in the pre-Columbian era?
Weaving, dancing, pottery, metalworking, lapidary, featherwork and mosaics.
300
What is this painting called?
Nocturnal Horizon Line
300
What disease did Frida Kahlo have?
Polio
300
What are cultural stereotypes?
It is categorizing different races into groups and assuming that group has the same traits as each other.
300
What does most non-Western art focus more on?
Non-Western art usually focuses more on family, society, and things that are usually closer to home.
300
When did Latin American art traditions develop? Where did they develop?
They developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with Spain and Portugal in the late 15th century.
400
What is Nocturnal Horizon Line made of?
Graphite
400
Two of the most famous LatinX artists
Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso
400
Latin American countries continue to influence ______ and ______ policies, even beyond the U.S
political
economic
400
What is Western art?
Western art mostly refers to Europe and North America. Their artistic tradition looks back to the Classicism of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
400
Around when did many Latin American artists start to develop a looser, more abstract style of art?
Around the 1900's.
500
The artist who painted Nocturnal Horizon Line
Tarasita Hernandez
500
How did Juan Miro die?
Heart disease
500
What does this picture mean to you?
Answers may vary.
500
How has the distinction between Western art and Non-Western art plagued Latin America?
It mostly fits into the category of Western art, but people argue that it is more related to its pre-Columbian roots.
500
What created enormous changes in the indegiounus cultures of Latin America?
European discovery, conquest and settlement into the Americas were the cause of the changes in the indegiounus cultures of Latin America.