VOCABULARY
This painting effect of contrasted light and shadow is created by light falling from a particular direction on something (i.e. shading)
What is chiaroscuro?
This Eurocentric form of appropriation is an emulation of non-western styles, erroneously construed as simplistic, naïve, child-like, and un-trained.
What is Primitivism?
The "Standard of Ur" and "Bushel With Ibex Motifs" both share this visual compositional element.
What are Registers?
Claes Oldenburg created "Lipstick (Ascending) On Caterpillar Tracks" this work to critique and protest what event?
What is the Vietnam War?
This ancient motif can be found in Prehistoric works like Lascaux and Running Horned Woman. The Egyptians and other Mesopotamian cultures centered their visual language around this.
What is twisted perspective (or composite view)?
This act is the conceptual doctrine for the rejection or destruction of religious images viewed as heretical.
What is iconoclasm?
What is Propaganda Art?
This artist said of his former mentor (Rodin), "nothing can grow under big trees."
Who is Constantin Brancusi?
The Palette of King Narmer marks this pivotal event in Egypt.
What is the Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt?
Found in Greek works prior to the 5th Century, this work displays this conventional representation of the mouth characterized by slightly upturned corners of the lips.
What is "Anavysos Kouros" and the "Archaic Smile?"
In building construction, this system utilizes two upright members that hold up a third member (laid horizontally across their top surfaces).
What is a post and lintel system?
This Romantic concept emerged from Transcendentalist writings that came from Taoist beliefs as seen in Fan Kuan's "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (c.1000 CE)."
What is the Sublime?
The Benin Plaques of Nigeria utilize this figurative visual element that is also found in works like the Code of Hammurabi and the Last Judgement of Hunefer.
What is Hierarchical Scale?
In 1959, this revolution destroyed the Temple at Jokhang that housed Jowo Rinpoche.
What is Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution?
This repurposed Roman structure with a rectangular floor plan with a semi-circular apse became the architectural foundation for Christian churches.
What is a Basilica?
A profoundly pronounced chiaroscuro, this painting style uses extreme contrasts of dark and light (darkness being a dominating feature that forms emerge from)
What is Tenebrism?
This work displays the individual's power and authority over the landscape as a leader of the people
What is "Chairman Mao en route to Anyuan?"
Kirchner's "Self-Portrait As A Soldier" shows visual influence from this symbolist artist's color palette and psychological portrayal.
Who is Edvard Munch (The Scream)?
"The Bayeux Tapestry" depicts this pivotal battle of the Norman Conquest of England.
What is The Battle of Hastings?
This Indigenous textile tradition grew out of traditional quillwork merging with European style hunting bags.
What is the Bandolier Bag (beadwork)?
This type of image emerged from 17th century Dutch paintings, containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability (the transience of life and certainty of death).
What is a "Vanitas Image"?
Through the use of Dutch Wax Textiles, this artist/work presents a critique of class and colonialist histories.
Who is Yinka Shonibare (The Swing [After Fragonard])
This architectural feature found at the "House of the Vetii" (Etruscan) was adapted and included at "La Villa Savoye" by Le Corbusier (Modernism/International Style).
What is a Peristyle? (open courtyard within a structure, traditionally surrounded by columns).
Painted in 1830, Eugene Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" is a Romantic allegory of this French event.
What is the July Revolution?
Roughly beginning with Titian's "Venus of Urbino," this conceptual tradition of the reclining female nude is a recurring topic and challenged by many contemporary artists.
What is "the male gaze?"