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| Objects or events that the work depicts |
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| What the work of art is about. |
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| Represents reality in easily recognizable forms. |
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| Art that does not represent the world realistically |
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| Figurative/Naturalistic Style |
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| Art representing the natural world closely. The Human form. Animal forms. |
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| Art that moves away from reality but still recognizable. |
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| A move completely away from reality. Work self contained. |
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| Study of art and images as it pertains to our culture and society. |
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| Islamic structure. Tall spire with onion shaped top. |
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| "To build on raised area." Tall structures from ancient mesopotamia. |
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| Trade route between east and west. Exchange of art and ideas. |
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| The destruction of political or religious symbols. |
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| The shunning of any religious or political symbols/figures. |
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| Abstract painting only dealing with certain colors.Imagery reduced to large fields of color. |
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| Three dimensional collage. |
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| Events in the early 1900s staged by artists. Like performing arts today. Audience involved. |
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| Art where the idea takes paramount over the medium. |
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| Comic like boxes/divisions in paintings from medieval and renaissance art. Tells a story. |
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| Style in art to make things purposefully unsophisticated. African art. |
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| The use of shapes and objects to indicate abstract ideas. |
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| Buddhist dome shaped temple. |
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| Art forms are coming out of surface about half their true depth. |
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| Figures are carved out of surface. Wood etching. |
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| Figures made by Minoans in 2000 BC. Abstract figures of females. Thought to be fertility figures. |
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| Roman technique. Making centers of columns thicker so they look straight. Breaks optical illusions. |
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| S Curved stance to make figures look more natural. Give implied movement. |
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| Bibles made in Middle Ages. Highly decorated. "Illuminated" |
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| The idea that thee is more than just the church. Study of the natural world. View that God's highest creation is man and therefore should be studied. |
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| Figures in work positioned to create an implied triangle with the tip facing up. More peaceful and pleasing to the eye. |
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| Technique developed in renaissance to show depth. Lies all converge at a point on the horizon. |
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| One point linear perspective |
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| Two point Linear perspective |
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| Foreshortening Perspective |
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| Index Finger. Figures are compressed as they approach the vanishing point. |
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| God perspective. Eastern cultures. |
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| Farther away objects fade into the atmosphere. |
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| Artists were more educated and became semi divine because of what they could do. |
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| Reminder that we are mortal. In Christian art. Shows fleetingness of this world. |
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