art history Flashcards

27334677	cave painting	early art showed man's relationship to spiritual ritual, nature and hunting	0
27334678	egyptian art	emphasized the unknowable mystery of the afterlife	1
27334679	greek art	emphasized the perfection of the human form, human activity	2
27334680	roman art	began to portray actual individuals. Includes, sculpture, frescoe, jewlery and crafts. Incredible architectural, engineering feats.	3
27334681	byzantine art	also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, in Constantinople, now Istanbul, the early church developed Eastern Orthodoxy and iconic Christian images proliferated	4
27334682	summerian art	early art from Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq) from the mid 6th millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium BC	5
27334683	african art	Varied and complex, discoveries of these, often figurative works, prompted many of the inventions of modern art.	6
27334684	mayan culture	1500 B.C. to 900 A.D. This is the most advanced civilization of the time in the Western Hempishere. Famous for its awe-inspiring temples, pyramids and cities. A complex social and political order.	7
27334687	asian art	refers to a vast array of cultural works east of Mesopotamia	8
27334688	dark ages	period after the fall of Rome. Much of the knowledge gained by earlier civilizations was lost.	9
58245405	Italian Rennaissance	period in which 'classical' understanding of the figure was reborn. An understanding of linear perspective made works of this period highly realistic.	10
58245406	Northern Renaissance	a period of painting that flourished in northern europe after the Italian Renaissance. Paintings were often of individuals in interiors.	11
58245407	Romanticism	work that reflected a passionate approach to the landscape	12
58245408	cubism	in these paintings multiple planes of space are viewed at once	13
58245409	fauvism	paintings that emphasized wild use of saturated color	14
58245410	pointillism	images made out of dots or small elements	15
58245411	minimalism	art which was exceptionally simple, often pure color-field paintings, for example	16
58245412	abstract expressionism	art, made largely in New York after WWII, that emphasized the expression of the individual often with large, 'painterly' brush strokes	17
58245413	impressionism	paintings that sought to capture the feeling of natural light by putting colors next to eachother and letting the viewer's eye 'mix' them.	18
58245414	pop art	art of the 1960's that blurred the edges between advertising art and fine art	19