Class Notes for Art History at University of Alberta (U OF A)

Context gives meaning and helps us understand why the work is. Content/subject matter what you are looking at, subject matter. Formal qualities physica

Greeks are the beginning of the classical world. Athens had about 30000 citizens: polis-city states. A person that lives in a city state has rights, no

Romans build like the etruscans but decorated like the greeks. Roman cattle market temple from the republican period, had an ionic facade, pilasters, c

Sculpture of venus unclothed showed sexual characteristics of women. *bigger # with bc, older the time is, bigger # on ad, closer to our time. #1-5 use

E sculpture, very close trading culture, had free-standing(often bronze) sculpture and architectural sculpture. #6-5 vulca, is red clay was probably on

Paleolithic, mesolithic, neolithic, relief, sculpture-in-the-round, sympathetic magic megalith, menhir, dolmen, henge, cromlech, post-and-lintel constr

Development of non-objective art a: not necessarily though subject! Movements question definition of art: dada anti-art movement. Replaced goddess of l

When writing an essay y context/background (when) y content/subject matter (what) y meaning (why) y y formal elements (how) reception. The developments

Dominated by religious seriousness and authoritative views of knowledge. Late middle ages: age of cathedral buildings (10-13th centuries) How religious

Arch of constantine early 4th ce, dedicated by the senate. Also used it as a staging device, called a triumph involving the army and loot. Constantine