test 2 study guide

Fête galante

French "amorous festival "a type of rocco painting depicting the outdoor amusement of French upper- class society.

Calotype

A photographic process in which a positive image is made by shining light through a negative image onto a sheet of sensitized paper.

Color

________ is often used to express emotion.

Yamato e

a style of Japanese painting that is characterized by native subject matter, stylized features, and thick bright pigments.

Chhatri

________- a decorative kiosk with a dome raised on slender columns, used mostly in northern India for sheltering statues.

Sublime paintings of nature

________ showing how powerful it is and how in awe man should be.

Handscroll

in Asian art, a horizontal painted scroll that is unrolled to the left and often used to present illustrated religious texts or landscapes.

Plinth

________- an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

Romanticism

________ rejects the Neoclassical insistence upon reason as the path to freedom and instead promotes the premise that freedom is only accessible through imagination and feeling.

Neoclassicsm

________ takes over for the rococo style and it leads rococo seeming to be out of style.

artistic achievement

The crowning ________ of the Thai kingdoms was the development of a type of walking- Buddha statue displaying a distinctive approach to body form.

Vedute

is a highly detailed, usually large- scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista.

Sabi

Japanese; the value found in the old and weathered, suggesting the tranquility reached in old age.

Daguerreotype

a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine- sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.

Wabi

A 16th- century Japanese art style characterized by refined rusticity and an appreciation of simplicity and austerity.

social gatherings

Salon- Informal ________ at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas.

intense human emotions

The idea that awe or terror can stimulate the most ________ and thereby be thrilling is a common thread among Sublime works.

Overglaze

Glaze decoration applied on the surface of an already glazed piece and then refired.

Kakemono

A vertical Japanese scroll painting.

Rococo

________ has a more private, soft, pleasing feel while Baroque art is dramatic and powerful.Rococo is the ornamental late baroque style of decoration.

Lacquer

a hard glossy coating; protective varnish.

Underglaze

A colored decoration applied on raw or bisque ware before the glaze is applied.

Rajput

(Rajputana)- Post- Classical collection of feudal kingdoms that were typically ruled by members of the Kshatriya caste of Hindu.

Kaolin

white clay used primarily in pottery.

Enlightenment

Something Zen Buddhist monks try to reach by doing simple tasks.

Kano School

painting style based on Chinese landscape painting often with rich color and gilding and frequently featured in the castles of warlords.

Enlightenment thinkers

________ saw nature as orderly, predictable, and subject to human control.

Calligraphy

in Chinese art this was Chinese characters in a pictorial way.

Indo Islamic

This was a style of art /architecture that shows influences from Islam and India.

Orientalism A term

coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures.

Zen Buddhism

a Buddhist sect that emphasizes enlightenment through meditation and stresses simplicity and discipline.

British Raj

the period of British rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

woodblock prints

They are ________ and they were made in the Edo period.

Romantic art

often deals with present- day subject matter and explores a heightened state of emotion.

literati painters

The ________ were the group that rejected the court.

Grand Tour

a pilgrimage of aristocrats, wealthy and diplomatic persons to tour the important area of Europe to obtain the knowledge and classical culture.

Muslim conquests

________ in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 12th to the 16th centuries, though earlier Muslim conquests include the invasions into modern Pakistan and the Umayyad campaigns in India, during the time of the Rajput kingdoms in the 8th century.

Muromachi period

During the ________, which, in historical terms, officially began with the defeat of the last opposing faction by Ashikaga Yashimitsu in 1392, Kyoto once again became the political and cultural capital of Japan, trade with China expanded, and ZenBuddhism (see "Zen Buddhism) "gained a wide following alongside the older traditions, such as Pure Land and Esoteric Buddhism.

Salon

________ des Refusés- an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon.

Nature

longing for the purity of nature, which defies human rationality.

small area of northern India

Controled a(n) ________ and was centered in Delhi.

Irrational Inner mind Insanity

Romantic artists depict the human psyche and topics that transcend the use of reason.

Delhi Sultanate

The first Islamic government established within India from 1206- 1520.

terrible storms

In the visual arts, it is represented by ________, or by an awesome, nearly terrifying experience of vastness.

Ghorid Dynasty

The Ghurids or Ghorids were a dynasty of Iranian descent from the Ghor region of present- day central Afghanistan, but the exact ethnic origin is uncertain.

Romanticism

________ emerged in literary and artistic circles as a reaction to and rejection of the Neoclassical emphasis on logic and reason as the ideal manifestation of the human experience.

Romanticism

________ led to the creation of the sublime which showed man in awe of the great power of nature.

Romanticism

In the visual arts, ________ rejects the strict symmetry and structure of Neoclassicism.

Romantics

________ often explore the dark recesses of the mind (mental illness, nightmares), the polar opposite of the reason and logic of Neoclassicism.

Ghorid Dynasty

The Ghurids or Ghorids were a dynasty of Iranian descent from the Ghor region of present-day central Afghanistan, but the exact ethnic origin is uncertain

Qutb al-din Aybak

Qutb al-Din Aibak was a general of the Ghurid king Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori

Indo-Islamic

This was a style of art/architecture that shows influences from Islam and India

Delhi Sultanate

The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520

Chhatri

a decorative kiosk with a dome raised on slender columns, used mostly in northern India for sheltering statues

onion/bulbous dome

a dome whose shape resembles an onion

pietra dura

inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images

Rajput (Rajputana)

Post-Classical collection of feudal kingdoms that were typically ruled by members of the Kshatriya caste of Hindu

British Raj

the period of British rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947

hanging scroll

in asian art, a vertical scroll hung on a wall with pictures mounted or painted directly on it

Handscroll

in Asian art, a horizontal painted scroll that is unrolled to the left and often used to present illustrated religious texts or landscapes

literati painting

the ideal form of the Chinese scholar-painter who was more interested in personal erudition and expression than in literal representation or immediately attractive surface beauty

Calligraphy

in Chinese art this was Chinese characters in a pictorial way

Underglaze

A colored decoration applied on raw or bisque ware before the glaze is applied

Overglaze

Glaze decoration applied on the surface of an already glazed piece and then refired

Kaolin

white clay used primarily in pottery

Lacquer

a hard glossy coating; protective varnish

Zen Buddhism

a Buddhist sect that emphasizes enlightenment through meditation and stresses simplicity and discipline

Enlightenment

Something Zen Buddhist monks try to reach by doing simple tasks

Yamato-e

a style of Japanese painting that is characterized by native subject matter, stylized features, and thick bright pigments

Kakemono

A vertical Japanese scroll painting

Kano School

painting style based on Chinese landscape painting often with rich color and gilding and frequently featured in the castles of warlords

Wabi

A 16th-century Japanese art style characterized by refined rusticity and an appreciation of simplicity and austerity

Sabi

Japanese; the value found in the old and weathered, suggesting the tranquility reached in old age

Nishiki-e

Japanese, "brocade pictures."

Fête-galante

French "amorous festival" a type of rocco painting depicting the outdoor amusement of French upper-class society

Avant-garde

Ahead of the times, especially in the arts

Salon des Refusés

an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon

Daguerreotype

a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor

Calotype

A photographic process in which a positive image is made by shining light through a negative image onto a sheet of sensitized paper

-Past

longing for the medieval past, pre-industrial Europe (Gothic architecture will be revived)

-Irrational/ Inner mind / Insanity

Romantic artists depict the human psyche and topics that transcend the use of reason

-Nature

longing for the purity of nature, which defies human rationality

-Emotion/ Exotic

Romantics favored emotion and passion over reason