Untitled Flashcards Set

Key Terms

Machu Pichu

Built as a royal estate for the first Inka emporer

Abstracted

Taken from something we can recognize but not represented ina realistic manner

Stylized

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

Dada

An anarchic, anti-art movement dating back to WW1

Avant-Garde

A french miliary term for the vanguard or advanced guard

ReadyMade

Everyday manufactured objects deemed to be art by the artists presentation of them as such

"The Richard Mutt Case"

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

Abstracted

Take from something we can recognize but not represented ina realistic manner

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

A 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

Abstraction

The reduction of forms to their simplest elements

Abstracted

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

Genre Scene

A scene of every day life

(genre ~ generic)

Still life

An image of 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