Art History 100 Final Exam Terms – Flashcards
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Templo Mayor
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ain temples of the Aztecs in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City.
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The creation myth of the Aztec (migration and the battle of Coatepec)
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aztecs were located on an islandd city in the middle of a lake. footprints in art symbolize migration myth of Coatepec- woman got pregnant by putting dust in chest, 400 siblings go to kill the mom but the son is born fully armored and kills all the siblings
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Yoruba culture
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prolific sculptors, famous for their magnificent terra cotta works throughout the 12th and 14th century; artists also earnests their capacity in making artwork out of bronze
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Lost-wax casting
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the process by which a duplicate metal sculpture (often silver, gold, brass or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture.
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Olokun
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Olokun, the sea god of the Yoruba people, lives in a palace under the sea, with human and fish attendants. His name means "owner of the sea".
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Rococo
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less commonly roccoco, or "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, affecting many aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music, and theatre.
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Neoclassicism
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Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.
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Romanticism
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as an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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lithography
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is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. Printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface.
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Orientalism
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a fascination with Middle Eastern cultures that inspired eclectic 19th century European fantasies of exotic life that often formed the subject of paintings
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Realism
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specific movement in European art during the mid 19th century that associates realism with a social or political meaning
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daguerreotype
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positive print made on a light-sensitzed copper plate (black and white)
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Modernism
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philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Impressionism
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19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.
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primitivism
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a belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature.
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Cubism
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was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914.
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collage
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a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing.
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Futurism
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celebrated advanced technology and urban modernity.
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readymade
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By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the object became art.
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Constructivism
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artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919 and was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes.
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cantilever
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a long projecting beam or girder fixed at only one end, used chiefly in bridge construction.
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Surrealism
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A movement in art and literature that flourished in the early twentieth century. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control.
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"Action painting"
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a technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock,
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combine
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combine painting is an artwork that incorporates various objects into a painted canvas surface, creating a sort of hybrid between painting and sculpture. Items attached to paintings might include photographic images, clothing, newspaper clippings, ephemera or any number of three-dimensional objects.
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Pop Art
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art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc.
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silkscreen
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printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
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Feminist Art
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of the late 1960s and 1970s, criticized the archaic gender ideals of the early 20th century as well as the art history canon, through the use of art, to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through a feminist lens.
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Appropriation art
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use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
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