Later Europe/America
Movement that focuses on playful scenes of love & romance. Implicit seductiveness and overt sexual overtones. No straight lines, forms are delicate and round.
What is Rococo?
This artist often gave his works musical titles which was a way to express their abstract qualities.
What is Vasily Kandinsky?
Nowadays this culture is referred to as the Ancestral Puebloans. Occupied American Southwest, 450-1400CE.
What is the Anasazi?
African art is less realistic representation and more about ________________.
What is expression?
Kongo Peoples would insert pegs or nails into these spiritual figures to either bless or curse people. Sometimes used to seal contracts, oaths or promises.
What is the Nkisi n'kondi (Power figure)?
One of the first "avant garde" artist movements of the mid 19th century. Initiated a trend in deviating from Classical norms to focus more on color and light. More interested in capturing an experience.
What is Impressionism?
These two artists collaborated in the development of Cubism.
What is Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque?
When it came to building structures, the Inca Empire were master of ______________ .
What is ashlar masonry?
Name for the wooden beams that give building a skeleton as well as provided footing for maintenance access, seen in the Great Mosque of Djenne.
What are Torons?
What two prehistoric works of art is found within the Indigenous America lands?
What is Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine & Tlatilco Female Figure?
In the 1800s, this process was created which advanced photography as a medium creating higher quality images with sharp details on shiny surface. However, could only create one copy.
What is the Daguerreotype?
This famous painting has been described as "a representation of the anxiety of the human condition." Long, thick brushstrokes emulate post-impressionism and has been associated with Expressionism.
What is The Scream?
The Temple Mayor was home to this civilization and located in this present day city,state.
What is Aztec people & Tenochtitlan, Mexico?
Nlo Bieri (Reliquary Guardian Figure) are sculptures that are placed upon reliquaries in order to guard and protect their contents. These people were historically nomadic, they did not bury their dead in established placed but instead would store their bones of important leader in reliquary vessels that could be carried with them.
What is the Fang People of Southern Cameroon?
In this work we see the importance of feathers to the Aztec people. It was believed that a piece made of feathers symbolizes wealth & status. This specific piece was created for Motechuzoma II during the years 1428-1502ce.
What is Ruler's Feather Headdress?
At the start of the 1700s, An intellectual movement in which scientists and philosophers begin to base their ideas on logic and observation rather than "folk" wisdom.
What is the Enlightenment?
One of the most modern and classical buildings in America due to one of its building material of bronze, this building stands of one the finest examples of functionalist aesthetic. Designed as the headquarters for a Canadian distillery.
What is the Seagram Building?
During an intense era of poverty in the Wind River Reservation, selling these artworks kept the culture, their stories, & economy alive.
What is Painted Elk Hide?
These four works of art were created for performance, rituals, and often times included ceremonial dances accompanied by costumes.
What is Portrait mask(Mblo), Bundu Mask, Elephant Mask, & Pwo (Female) Mask.
This artwork of the Luba people from the Republic of Congo, functions as a history of storytelling. The Mbudye Society reserves the ability to read and interpret these boards. They hold the stories of hero, kings & ancestral lineage of the people.
What is Lukasa (memory boards)?
An early 20th century movement, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
What is Cubism?
One of six narrative paintings, made to poke fun at aristocratic English society. The scene takes place shortly after a wedding between a bankrupt earl and daughter of wealthy merchant, showing relationship already falling apart as both have been unfaithful. This shows that high class marriages were not always virtuous.
What is The Tete a Tete?
Created and woven by women from thousands of beads acquired through European trade, designs made to mimic European style, these functional pieces would be worn by men of the Lenape People of Delaware and meant to carry anything.
What is Bandolier Bag?
The event that was later named ___________________ lead to over 700 hundred casualties between the British government and Ashanti Nation. Lasting for 7 months in 1900ce.
What is The War of the Golden Stool?
Impressive high relief carving, depicting different ritual moments in the life of Lady Xook such as bloodletting, being lit by her husband ( Shield Jaguar II), kneeling before a serpent from whose mouth appears a figure.
What is Yaxchilan Lintel 25, structure 23?