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* Reihana's major inspiration to create in Pursuit of Venus [infected] was a
French wallpaper
* What picture does Osman Hamdi Bey’s Young Woman Reading represent?
modern Ottoman Muslim life
Who made the Gates of Paradise?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
a visual balance that is achieved through the organization of unlike objects is called?
Asymmetrical balance
This ancient Roman historian sought to analyze historical and contemporary art in his text Natural History.
Pliny the Elder(23–79 ce)
Who won the Florence door competition? and who was second place?
Lorenzo Ghiberti won, Filippo Brunelleschi was second place
*Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad company built what building?
El Tovar Hotel
The Greek Parthenon is an example of what type of architecture?
Post and Lintel
Most Islamic art is
non-figurative
* in Pursuit of Venus [infected] depicts everyday and traditional life of
Māori are the Indigenous people of New Zealand
Christo and Jeanne-Claude startled the world with the idea that landscape and architecture could be packaged, famously using fabric to perform this action on monuments and even islands. What is this action called?
wrapping
The constellation known as the Big Dipper (also called Ursa Major), was known colloquially by African Americans as the
“drinking gourd”
*Osman Hamdi was born in
Istanbul
Caravaggio (1571–1610), an Italian Baroque painter, was renowned for his dramatic use of light and dark which is termed
caravaggesque
* The Electronic Highway is made up of how many TV screens and forms?
made up of more than 300 tv screens and is forming the Map of USA with neon outlining on each state
Name the three types of orders that are differentiated by their degree of ornamentation.
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
This midwestern U.S. state is where the "Native Skywatchers" initiative formed as a joint effort between Dakota, Lakota, and Ojibwe communities.
Minnesota
What were navigational guides for sailors that only mapped the outline of a coastal area called?
Portolan charts
Two major innovations of the Renaissance include
the use of linear perspective and a move toward greater naturalism
Paint is made of? (three things)
pigments, binders and solvents
The two subcategories of environmental art is, and has first emerged in
Earthworks and Land art, first emerged in the 1960s
the basic visual components of a work of art are? (6 things)
line, shape, form, space, color, and texture,
The Greeks believed that the human figure was the measure of all things. As a consequence, all structures were designed in proportions relative to human proportions, and specific rules were established. For example, the ideal human figure was determined to be
seven and one-half heads high
What was a central part of Melanesian cultures?
(hint: they were used in ceremonies that involved summoning the spirits of ancestors to honor the dead)
Carved masks
This had a profound influence on Western art, as French artists began to imitate this work of the Japanese in the late nineteenth century.
Japanese prints