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biomorphic form
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shape that suggests living things; sometimes called organic
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primary colors
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red, yellow, blue -- all other colors made as a combination of these hues
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secondary colors
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come from a mixture of two primaries -- orange, green, and violet
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complementary colors
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colors opposite each other on the color wheel
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intuitive perspective
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forms become narrower and converge the farther they are from the viewer, approx spacial recession
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linear perspective
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-one point=elaborate intuitive where orthogonals recede back into a vanishing point
-two point= two vanishing points |
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atmoshpheric perspective
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portraying objects far in distance often in blu-gray hues and less clarity than foreground
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picture plane
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the two-dimensional surface of a painting
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period
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common traits in works of art and architecture of a particular historical era
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regiona
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stylistic traits that persist in a geographic region.
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representational
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recognizable subject matter: naturalism, realism, illusionism
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naturalism/realism
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natural world, accurately depicted objects... also idealism somewhat seperate
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illusionism
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highly detailed with convincing illusion of reality
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abstract style
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depart from literal realism to capture the essence of the form
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non-representational
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does not produce recognizable imagery
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carved
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subtractive, created by taking away material (start with a block of stone and take away)
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modeled
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additive, object is built up like from clay
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cast
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molded, metal usually cast
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assembled
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welding of metal statues
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architecural plan
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birds-eye view
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architectural elevations
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exterior sides of buildings, no perpective
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architectural section
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cut vertically from top to bottom
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architectural cutaway
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can see both inside and outside elements
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lost wax casting
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way to cast bronze statues that were hollow and used less bronze--wax on molded clay was given details and bronze was cast on top of that then wax melted away
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post and lintel
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uprights are spanned by a horizontal element
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cantilever
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variation of p&l w/ reinforced concrete
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true arch & corbelled arch
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aodsa;sodfij
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contextualism
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studying art in the context of its historical time period and culture--identify the cultural factors that helped produce a work, to determine what it probably meant for the artist and the original audience
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canon
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classical rule of proportions
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idealism
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artists striving to make their forms adn figures attain perfection, based on pervading cultural values or their own mental image of beauty
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patron
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person or group who commissions or supports a work of art
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avant-garde
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strikingly new or radical
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formalism
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many years of close study with various styles of art, focusing on design, composition, way materials are manipulated, etc.
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aesthetics
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considers the nature of beauty, art, and taste
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monolith/monolithic
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(made of) a single stone, usually very large
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megalith
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a big stone
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Neolithic
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the "new" stone age, when agriculture developed and animals were being domesticated, started to create farming communities
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Paleothic
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the "old" stone age, lots of toolmaking
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dolmen
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a tomb chamber formed by huge upright stones supporting tabelike rocks
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cairn
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hill or pile of stones used as a memorial or landmark of a tomb
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ziggurat
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in mesopotamia, a small-stepped mound made of earthly materials that supports usually a shrine
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cuneiform
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a second step of writing stemming from pictographs that sort of simplified it by simply modelling the marks after the strokes of the stylus
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votive figures
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oftentimes self-portraits, figurines placed at the shrines of Gods
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stele
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an upright stone slab, upon which relief sculture
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lamassu
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human-headed winged lion
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mastaba
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first in the series of egyptian burial chambers, a small rectangle w/ chapel and then shaft and underground burial chamber
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necropolis
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city of the dead
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clerestory
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long row of window opening to allow some light into huge temples
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Perikles
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Leader of Greece during the Golden Age, helped decide to make athens beautiful
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sarcophagus
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rectangular stone coffin
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Stupa
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buddhist temple (indian), derives from burial mounds
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axis mundi
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axis of the world
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torana
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gateways to stupa
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mudra
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right-hand raised symbol meaning have no fear, buddhism
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pagoda
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also reliquary tower (something that holds relics), origniated in indian stupa then combined with han watch towers
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megaron
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a great room, large audience hall of a mycenaean ruler
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