Untitled Flashcards Set

Machu Pichu

Built as a royal estate for the first Inka emperor.

Abstracted

Taken from something we can recognize but not represented in a realistic manner.

Stylized

Represented in a way that simplifies details rather than trying to show naturalness or reality.

Dada

An anarchic, anti-art movement dating back to WW1.

Avant-Garde

A French military term for the vanguard or advanced guard.

Ready-Made

Everyday manufactured objects deemed to be art by the artist's presentation of them as such.

Conceptual Art

A work of art in which the communication of an idea or group of ideas are most important to the work.

Representation

The use of signs that stand in for, and take the place of something else.

Naturalism

A strategy of visual representation that posits a link between represented forms based upon the notion of resemblance or likeness.

Abstraction

The reduction of forms to their simplest elements.

Abstract

A term that is associated with the early 20th century art which communicates meaning through lines, shapes, colors, forms, textures, rather than imitating material objects in the real world.

Self Portrait

A representation of the artist created by the artist.

Iconography

The study of symbolic meaning of images in a work of art, such as particular objects, animals, plants, physical gestures, etc.

Idealized

Represented in an ideal or perfect way.

Genre Scene

A scene of everyday life.

Still Life

An image of a selection of everyday objects.

Vanitas

Latin for vanity.

Floating Perspective

A system representing multiple perspectives in one painting.

Gender

A modern term used to refer to the cultural construction of the biological and social characteristics of men and women.

the myth of photographic truth

The idea that photographs offer an objective, unbiased "truth" is a myth because every photograph, regardless of its subject matter or style, represents a selective, subjective, and often constructed version of reality

Cubism

A revolutionary 20th-century art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Narrative

An artwork that tells a story

Register

One or more horizontal sections into which a space is provided to depict the episodes of a story

Inanna

The goddess of love, fertility, and war

performative

the capacity of speech, communication, or (here) visual images to not simply communicate but to act,shifting from a passive telling or representing to an active performing.

Subject

The bombing of the Northern Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937

Narrative Cycle

Multiple scenes or episodes from a larger narrative, represented within separate images and organized together within a sequence

Continuous Narrative

Multiple scenes from a narrative all contained within a single frame