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A Pair of Lovers, Kitagawa Utamaro
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Venus of Willendorf, Paleolithic/Gravettian
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Wedding Portrait, Jan van Eyck
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Self-Portrait, Alice Neel
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Untitled (Your Body Is A Battleground), Barbara Kruger
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Ta'unga
Specially-trained Polynesian priests who carved Polynesian Fertility sculptures.
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Trompe l'oeil
"fools the eye"
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Chicha
Home-made fermented drink
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Ukiro-e
Aka “floating world.” Refers to the transience of life.
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Hanazuma
Courtesan who's name meant "flower and lightning bolt"
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Is there a difference between erotic art and pornography?
Yes. Erotic art is emotional, sensual, soft, charismatic. Porn is meant simply for sexual pleasure without knowing anything personal.
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Innermost Coffin of Tutankhamun, Egypt
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Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple, Etruscan
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Soldiers from Pit 1, Chinese
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Death of Marat, Jacques Louis David
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Ophelia, John Everett Millais
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AIDS Memorial Quilt, The Names Project
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US Marine Corps War Memorial, Felix W. Weldon
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin
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Shabti
Small figures kept in tombs to do the Pharaoh’s work in the afterlife.
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Egyptian Symbols
Cobra, Ankh, Scarab Beetle
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Cobra
For protection in the underworld
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Scarab Beetle
Symbol of rebirth
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Necropolis
A city of the dead
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Reliquaries
Small precious shrines that hold remains or clothing of deceased holy person.
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The Pre-Raphaelites
Artists who rejected Renaissance style art. They chose to portray fictional, historical, and “fanciful” subjects with a naturalistic style and meticulous attention to detail.
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What is the difference between an image of death and a memorial to the dead?
- Memorial to the dead = celebration of their life and what they died for.
- Image of death = glorification of death without looking at their life.
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The Executions of May 3rd, 1808, Francisco Goya
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Echo of a Scream, David Alfaro Siqueros
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV, Robert Motherwell
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They Waz Nice White Folks While They Lasted, Kara Walker
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Portrait of George Moscone, Robert Arneson
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Drawing from Mine, William Kentridge
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Degenerate Art
A label used by the Nazi regime for Modern art and “Primitive” art. The Nazis believed this type of art had a corrupting influence on society.
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Automatism
A process for art making, influenced by Surrealism, that incorporates intuition, spontaneity, unconscious behavior, and the accidental.
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Mexican Muralists
A group of early 20th c Mexican painters. Their work was often political, and celebrated indigenous Mexican culture.
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Apartheid
A system of segregation based on race enforced in South Africa between 1948-1991.
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Batik
A method for producing colored designs on textiles using wax to resist dye.
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The Unicorn in Captivity, South Netherlandish
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Monkey Magic - Sex, Money, and Drugs, Chris Ofili
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Ashurnasirpal II Killing Lions, Assyrian
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Falling Bough, Walton Ford
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Beyond the Solitary Bamboo Grove, Sheng Maoye
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Ryoanji Zen Garden of Contemplation, Japanese
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat
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Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), Marcel Duchamp
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Kitsch
Objects or images that display an emotional appeal that is generalized, superficial, and sentimental.
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En plein air
An approach to painting where the artist works outdoors to make sketches of a subject.
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Zen Buddhism
A philosophy/religion that emphasizes simplicity and meditation.
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Earthwork
A large-scale environmental art work that uses the earth as a medium or material.
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Pointillism
A style of art that uses dots of color to create a recognizable image.
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Bezold Effect
Named for the 19th century German physicist Wilhelm von Bezold. That by changing a single color in his designs, all of the colors seemed to shift.
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Minimalism
A 1960’s movement in American sculpture (primarily) using industrial materials and simplified, geometric forms.
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Specific Objects
Minimalist artwork that was neither painting nor sculpture.
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