ARTHIST 1A03 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Old Testament, Marble, Dome
12 Oct 2018
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ARTHIST 1A03
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
INTRODUCTION
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Textbook office Hours
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Stokstad ,Marilyn and Michael W. Cothren Tues 9:30 -11:30 and by appointment room TSH 416
Art History Volume I (Pearson 2018
,6th edition )
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Readings Method of Assessment
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Week I :chapter I
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Participation = 10%
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Go to Mills library if you need help with writing
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Week 2:Chapter 2,3
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First Writing Assignment =13% Dont just use online resources
•second Writing Assignment =13%
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Midterm = 27%
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Final Exam = 37%
Introduction
Figures of a Woman + a man
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From Cemavado ,Romania . C . 4500 BCE . Ceramic ,height 442
"(National History Museum
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Bucharest )
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Made of day +fire for durability
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6.5k years Old ,by someone who's observed human anatomy
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Example of visual art → human creates with characteristics beyond primary function
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Requires specific and highly developed skills and serves an extraordinary social function
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variation and expressive
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Male looks pensive because he's supporting head with fists propped on Knees ,sitting on stool
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Woman is on floor With left leg stretched and right Knee pulled Up ,thinking
Art
We will be looking at objects protected by UNESCO
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Humans reflect about themselves and the World that surrounds them /
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They use hand and mind for making things
simplicity and stylization are an Artistic Means
Family Group 1949 • Henry Moore 11898 -1986 ). Brome ,Object
1540×1180×700 mm ,475kg IThe Tate Gallery ,London )
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Art is based on skill and intention
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Moving away from detail and simplified human forms which intensity expressiveness
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symbolism in sculpture + Architecture
Great Sphinx ,Funerary Complex of Khat re •
GIZA l Egypt ). Old Kingston , c. 2520 -
2494 BCE . limestone ,height approx
. 65 "(19,8 m )
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what is a sphinx ?
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What does it stand for ?
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Why are pyramids pointed ?
Images Interacting with writing
Seated scribe Queen Netertari Making an offering to Isis
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Found near the tomb of Kai ,Saqqara IEgypt ).Fifth Dynasty ,
c. 2450 -2325 BCE . Painted limestone with inlaid eyes ;height
21
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153cm ).Imused du Louvre ,Paris )
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Wall painting in the tomb of Netertari ,Valley of the Queens ,
Egypt . Nineteenth Dynasty ,1290
-1224 BCE
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Heiroglyphs
Human Relationship with the spiritual sublime : Religion
Temple of Poseidon •
shapes found to express spirituality
Human Relationships
Greek Amphora Achilles and Ajax ,heroes of the Trojan War ,play agame
• Greek Amphora , c. 540 -530 Bc
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Achilles and Ajax ,heroes of the Trojan War
,play agame by artist
Exekias
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Ancient Greeks were competitive
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