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Architecture: Post & Beam
Two posts equally spaced a part with a beam placed horizontally across.
Architecture: Cantiliver
Two posts with a beam placed across and over-hanging on one side.
Architecture: Corbelling
Placing bricks on top of each other to create a tunnel, using outside bricks to hold up the inside ones.
Architecture: Roman Arch
Using bricks to create an arch, with pie shape bricks around the curve using the sides to take the pressure.
Architecture: Tunnel/Barrel Vault
Arches in a line creating a tunnel.
Architecture: Dome
Rotating an arch 180 degrees.
Architecture: Masonry/Load Bearing Walls
Brick, cement, steel frames. Used today.
Architecture: Flying Buttress
Outside structural support system to hold up buildings. Leaning a post up against an outside wall.
Architecture: Cable Suspension
Using cables to hold up a structure. ie: Bridges.
Middle Ages: Illuminated Manuscripts
-The physical embodiment of god.
-First letter of the paragraph illustrates what is going to happen in the paragraph.
-paintings on the sides called illuminations.
Middle Ages: What the art looks like
-No landscape
-No background
-No depth
-No shading
-No linear perspective
-Special people have halos around head
-No emotion
-No nudity
Middle Ages: Gothic Cathedrals
-built in the form of a cross
-center of the city
Middle Ages: Gargoyles
-statues of creatures from underworld on outside of cathedrals
-used as rain gutter because evil creatures were fit to carry waste water
Secular
Non-Religous
Ren: Rise of the Middle Class
-middle class are now consumers
-contributing to the economy
Ren: Humanism
-man is the measure
-secularization of the divine
-making god worldly, on our level
Ren: What does art look like?
-shading
-emotions
-important backgrounds
-depth
-linear perspective
-individuality
-secular acts and scenes
Baroque: What does the art look like?
-similar to hellenistic art
-lack of importance in background
-dramatic
-lots of diagonals
-dark backgrounds contrasting with light colors
Rococo: What does the art look like?
-Everything is overdone
-very elaborate
-flirtatious
-fluffy pink nudes
Neoclassicism: What does the art look like?
-plain and simple looking
-poses are cheesy and very "posed" looking
Impressionism: What does the art look like?
-lots of light and color
-captures the way something looks at given moment
-quick brush strokes
-painterly with an impasto texture
Cubism: What does the art look like? Who started it?
-new visual language created by Brock and Picasso
-flat geometric plane
-neutral and monochromatic
Author
Anonymous
ID
1972
Card Set
101 Exam 3
Description
#rd exam in Art 101
Updated
2009-12-01T08:14:14Z
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