Is It Art?
There is universal agreement on what defines art.
What is, "No Way!"
____ form
The first perceptual criteria we talked about.
This describes the purpose of much Egyptian art.
What is "funerary"?
This art was produced largely to glorify the State and emperor.
What was Roman art?
What is significant about "The Venus of Willendorf?"
It is one of the oldest known statues.
This set of criteria is based on what we know.
What is conceptual criteria?
Something is likely art if it requires this.
What is participation?
True or false: Much ancient Roman art borrowed from the cultures of the people they conquered.
True
This period is associated with emotion and movement.
What is Romantic?
Kouros statues were typical of this period in sculpture.
What is archaic?
This set of criteria is based on what we can see.
What is perceptual criteria?
What a piece of art is "about"
What is subject matter
Rebirth
This school of painting was concerned with the effects of light in paintings.
What was Impressionism?
Highly idealized forms were a main feature of this period.
What is classical Greek?
This is one of the conceptual criteria for art: It was made ____ _____ ______.
What is, "It was made by an artist"?
What a piece of art says about a subject.
What is content?
This period focused on religious art.
What is the medieval period?
This painter painted "The Persistence of Memory."
Who was Salvador Dali?
This huge group of figures was discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well.
What are the Terracotta Warriors?
This is another one of the conceptual criteria for art: It was _____ to be ______.
What is, "The artist intended it to be art"?
The name for this set of criteria for determining art.
What is "perceptual"?
This period in art history focused on idealized human forms.
What is classical Greek?
The loss of individuality and the reduction of things to their essentials was a hallmark of this group of painters.
Who were the Cubists?
"David" and "The Pieta" were both sculpted by this artist.
Who is Michelangelo?