ARTH153- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 141 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Art: style, appearance, techniques (how things are made), and historical context. Art history: true concrete objects& distinctive styles, history of ideas. Historical context helps us interpret meaning interpretation requires historical knowledge of subjects and stories. Material culture: interpretation of definitive items, items you can hold or physically see. Techniques for analysis: thinking about how to interpret visual material. Iconography: using conventional subjects and symbols with pictures from characteristics. Ancient egypt liked smooth, flat, and very long lines. Ancient rome liked naturalistic, shape, volume of things. Ideas: how do you communicate thru art, narrative, formal analysis -> drawing conclusions from the appearance. Line: shape, color, texture, value (light and dark, scale and proportion, composition (arrangement of forms) Artists a(cid:374)d patro(cid:374)s (cid:373)ake deli(cid:271)erate (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)es i(cid:374) order to represe(cid:374)t the artist"s i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374) or (cid:449)hat the artist want others to view. Conservation can affect old works of art and affect what ppl interpret: natural disaster, accidents (ie. shipwreck), deliberate.
