SQ.1: In the main content there will be a link to the appropriate discussion area to provide definitions, contributing to the glossary of terms. You must provide a personal definition utilizing academic sources for the term and provide an example of an artwork that exemplifies the definition provided. You must also describe why that artifact was chosenas an example, clearly defining the aspects that relate to the definition.
Helpful tips:
· Please do not copy and paste from a word document as it generates unnecessary code. Use the text editor in the site or use notepad or a similar program to type and save information. If you must use Word for your work, copy and paste to Notepad then copy that information to your online editor, this will remove any code.)
· "isms" such as "symbolism" may not refer to the artistic movement by the same title, rather the concept as related to the time the course covers. Please make sure your definition refers to the context of the course.
Yavelberg's Video Tutorial for SQ.1
Example:
Black figure painting is a technique used in early Greek pottery in which dark figures are silhouetted against a light background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes (Kleiner, 398). A potter formed the vase on a wheel and added the handles separately by using slip, or liquefied clay (Kleiner, 90). After the vessel dried, decorators – often the potters themselves – would then incise figures or patterns onto the vase with a slip of finely sifted clay or white and purple enhancements (Athenian Vase Painting).
A three-step firing process began with an oxidizing phase, where the pot and slip turned red. In the reducing phase, the kiln’s oxygen supply was shut off, turning the pot and slip black. In the final reoxidixing phase, the pot reabsorbed oxygen and turned red again, while the slip of fine clay remained black (Kleiner, 90). Athenian artist Exekias is considered the master of black figure painting.
Dionysus Kylix. Exekias decorated the inside of a cup with the image of Dionysus, god of wine, lying in a boat surrounded by dolphins and grapevines, recalling the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (Perseus Digital Library). The image is created using the black figure technique demonstrating the silhouette-like image with incised details.
Works Cited:
Department of Greek and Roman Art. Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.d. Web. Accessed 2 April 2013.
Exekias. Dionysus Kylix.ca. 535 BCE. Staatliche Antikensammlung, Munich. Web. Accessed 2 April 2013. Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective. Boston: Wadsworth, 2010. Print.
The Homeric Hymns. Trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University, n.d. Web. Accessed 2 April 2013.
Terms:
· Paleolithic
· visual literacy
· birth of art, Africa/Europe
· Neolithic
· iconography
· pre-historic
· composition
· abstraction,
· idealism,
· realism,
· natur.
SQ.1 In the main content there will be a link to the appropriate .docx
1. SQ.1: In the main content there will be a link to the appropriate
discussion area to provide definitions, contributing to the
glossary of terms. You must provide a personal definition
utilizing academic sources for the term and provide an
example of an artwork that exemplifies the definition provided.
You must also describe why that artifact was chosenas an
example, clearly defining the aspects that relate to the
definition.
Helpful tips:
· Please do not copy and paste from a word document as it
generates unnecessary code. Use the text editor in the site or
use notepad or a similar program to type and save information.
If you must use Word for your work, copy and paste to Notepad
then copy that information to your online editor, this will
remove any code.)
· "isms" such as "symbolism" may not refer to the artistic
movement by the same title, rather the concept as related to the
time the course covers. Please make sure your definition refers
to the context of the course.
Yavelberg's Video Tutorial for SQ.1
Example:
Black figure painting is a technique used in early Greek pottery
in which dark figures are silhouetted against a light background
of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the
silhouettes (Kleiner, 398). A potter formed the vase on a wheel
and added the handles separately by using slip, or liquefied clay
(Kleiner, 90). After the vessel dried, decorators – often the
potters themselves – would then incise figures or patterns onto
the vase with a slip of finely sifted clay or white and purple
enhancements (Athenian Vase Painting).
A three-step firing process began with an oxidizing phase,
where the pot and slip turned red. In the reducing phase, the
kiln’s oxygen supply was shut off, turning the pot and slip
black. In the final reoxidixing phase, the pot reabsorbed
2. oxygen and turned red again, while the slip of fine clay
remained black (Kleiner, 90). Athenian artist Exekias is
considered the master of black figure painting.
Dionysus Kylix. Exekias decorated the inside of a cup with the
image of Dionysus, god of wine, lying in a boat surrounded by
dolphins and grapevines, recalling the Homeric Hymn to
Dionysus (Perseus Digital Library). The image is created using
the black figure technique demonstrating the silhouette-like
image with incised details.
Works Cited:
Department of Greek and Roman Art. Athenian Vase Painting:
Black- and Red-Figure Techniques. The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, n.d. Web. Accessed 2 April 2013.
Exekias. Dionysus Kylix.ca. 535 BCE. Staatliche
Antikensammlung, Munich. Web. Accessed 2 April 2013.
Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western
Perspective. Boston: Wadsworth, 2010. Print.
The Homeric Hymns. Trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Perseus
Digital Library. Tufts University, n.d. Web. Accessed 2 April
2013.
Terms:
· Paleolithic
· visual literacy
· birth of art, Africa/Europe
· Neolithic
· iconography
· pre-historic
· composition
· abstraction,
· idealism,
· realism,
· naturalism,
· verism
· post and lintel
· subject
3. · before common era
· relief
· space
· medium
· architectural concept
· line
· art history
· artist
· color
· volume and mass
· texture
· light and dark
· style
· Mesopotamia
· Middle East
· Egypt
· ziggurat
· sculpture in the round
· proportion
· Ka
· temple
· narrative
· conceptualization
· step pyramid and pyramid
· aesthetics
· cuneiform
· hierarchy of scale
· hieroglyphic
· hypostyle hall
· sphinx
· stele
· register
· clerestory
· mastaba
· Aegean
· Mycenaean
4. · Minoan
· fresco
· mythology
· archaic
· Geometric and Orientalizing period
· red figure/black figure
· classical
· Ionic, Doric, Corinthian
· mosaic
· Hellenistic
· Cycladic
· floor plan/elevation
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· lost wax
· contrapposto
· gesture
· workshop
· Greek art
· cultural borrowing and legacy
· acropolis
· atrium
· forum
· amphora
· black figure painting
· red figure painting
· caryatid
· capital
· cella
· cire perdue (lost wax)
· column
· frieze
· kore
· kouros
· krater
· metope
5. · pediment
· peripteral
· terracotta
· triglyph
· volute
· imperial
· basilica
· Republican
· facade
· arch
· Etruscans
· version
· Roman
· vault
· apse
· dome
· landscape
· aisle
· pagan art
· still life
· linear perspective
· perspective
· genre
· chiaroscuro
· concrete
· tessera
· mosaic
· triumphal arch
· Islamic art
· Christian art
· Jewish art
· symbolism
· manuscript
· colonnade
· Bible
· Koran
