Topic 1
What is the name of Spongebob's pet and what sound does he make?
Gary - meows.
What is the name of Harry Potter's friends?
Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
Who is the most known Queen of Egypt?
Cleopatra
What is the name of Mulan's red dragon?
Mushu.
What is the name of the villain in Hercules and what thing is he the god of?
Hades - god of the death and Underworld.
List all elements of art
Line, Shape, Form, Texture, Color, Space
4 steps to analyze art.
Description, Analysis, Interpretation and Judging.
First manifestations of art in the Paleolithic period?
Weapons, Paleolithic Women or "Venus", and the animal paintings in caves.
The 3 religions/philosophical systems that influences Chinese culture?
Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism.
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian. What are these?
Greek orders or types of columns.
This is used in art history to study the symbols to discover what is behind the work of art.
Iconography.
What do you have to do in the analysis step?
You often look at the style of the artist.
Manifestation of art during the Neolithic.
Stonehenge - megaliths.
The correct name of the important Chinese work that contains the six "elements" of painting.
Six Canons of Painting.
Mention a characteristic of Greek sculptures.
Ideal beauty, feelings were in posture, use of different materials, techniques, laws of proportion.
What is the purpose of Iconology?
It is about finding out the origin and interpretation of an image.
What do you have to do in the interpretation step?
Interpreting is to read something that is not obvious, making relations between what you know and what you see and trying to create a new message behind the artwork.
Mention a characteristic of art/culture from Ancient Egypt.
Pyramids, temples, mummification process, afterlife and death, sculptures of powerful people, Palette of Narmer
Mention a characteristic of Persian art.
Big palaces with simple designs, decorations with bulls, ibexes, lions, columns, rhytons.
Periods of Greek sculpture.
Archaic, Early Classical, Classical
3 methodologies to analyze art.
Psychoanalysis, Semiology, Study of the Lives of the Artists.
What is the style of the artist?
“Style is an artist’s personal way of using the elements and principles of art to create artworks”
Mention a characteristic from the art or culture of Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform, literature, Code of Hammurabi, city-states, irrigation systems, monumental temples.
Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha: these are the four principles of life from which religion?
Buddhism.
Mention at least 1 innovation of the Romans.
Aqueducts and triumphal arc.