Art in Life Exam 1
Terms
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Sublime
SPIRAL JETTY (Robert Smithson) and THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS and LANDERS PEAK(Albert Bierstadt) - immensity so large that can be hardly comprehended by imagination; the opposite of pictureous...nature incredible in power
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Yin/Yang
THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN(Wu Chen) -
yin: nuturing and passive
yang: generative and active - Ethnocentrism
- Thinking of everything within your own culture
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Earthwork
UMBRELLAS(Christo and Jeanne-Claude) - An environment(a form of art thats large enough for the viewer to move around in) that is out-of-doors.
- Looking vs. Seeing
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Looking:
Seeing: represents what's impt to me, perceving the same things differently -
Calligraphy
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY(from Shahnamah of Firdawsi) - Islamic beautiful feel; fine art of handwriting=>chief form of Islamic art
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Subject Matter
THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS MY PROOF (Duan Michals) - What image depicts
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Content
THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS MY PROOF (Duan Michals) - What image means
- Form
- overall structure of a work of art=>what it looks like, shaped like, how the picture is set up
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Representational
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS(Albert Bierstadt), PAT (John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres - "realistic" more a work resembles eal things in teh real world, this is RECOGNIZABLE
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Naturalistic
BABY GIRL (Marisol Escobar) - "like nature" desciptive of any work that resembles the natural world....RECOGNIZABLE BUT FAR LESS REALISTIC (like an abstract picture of a human)
- Illusionistic
- Image so natural that it creates the illusion of being real, making you believe real, thats not real
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Abstract
UNTITLED (Joel Shapiro) - Has an object, understandable figures yet not representational (from nature)
- Non-Objective
- art makes no reference to the natural world