WHAT IS ART?
This prehistoric art form was often created in caves using natural pigments.
What is cave painting?
This visual strategy makes important figures larger than others.
What is hierarchy of scale?
This genre of art represents how a person wants to be seen.
What is portraiture?
Art that tells a story using images is called this type of art.
What is narrative art?
A space set apart for ritual, belief, or meaning is called this.
What is a sacred space?
These small carved stones from Namibia are among the earliest known portable artworks.
What are the Apollo 11 Stones?
This artwork documents the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is the Palette of Narmer?
This Roman sculpture shows idealized features to communicate authority.
What is Augustus of Primaporta?
This embroidered artwork records the Norman conquest of England.
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
Walking around a sacred structure as part of ritual is known as this.
What is circumambulation?
This Paleolithic sculpture is often associated with fertility and abundance.
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
This carved stone monument contains one of the earliest known law codes.
What is the Stele of Hammurabi?
This artist used self-portraits to explore pain, identity, and personal experience.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This term describes showing multiple moments of a story in one visual field.
What is continuous narration?
This sacred object was believed to hold the remains of a saint and attract pilgrims.
What is the Reliquary of Sainte-Foy?
The cave paintings at Lascaux and the Venus of Willendorf challenge modern ideas of art by showing that early images were created primarily for this purpose rather than personal expression.
What is ritual or symbolic meaning?
Art created to promote authority or influence public opinion is called this.
What is propaganda?
This contemporary artist photographed herself playing different roles to challenge fixed identity.
Who is Cindy Sherman?
This artwork spirals upward to tell the story of a Roman emperor’s victories.
What is Trajan’s Column?
This artwork represents collective identity through thousands of life-sized figures.
What are the Terracotta Warriors?
Because prehistoric artworks like Lascaux were made in hard-to-reach spaces using limited materials, historians believe their meaning depended on this factor rather than visual accuracy.
What is context?
The Stele of Hammurabi reinforces power by showing Hammurabi receiving laws from this god.
What is a Shamash (the ancient Mesopotamian sun god of justice and truth)?
Portraits often use clothing, pose, and objects to communicate this constructed idea.
What is identity?
(accept: social identity, constructed identity)
This manuscript uses images and symbols to record history, tribute, and daily life, showing how visual storytelling can communicate social order without written narrative.
What is the Codex Mendoza?
Art that represents the shared identity of a group rather than an individual shows this.
What is collective identity?