Art appreciation Test 1

the land around the Nile river

An Egyptian King

the second in charge to the Pharoh

Discovered King Tut's Tomb in 1922

Egyptian King, his tomb is the only tomb that was still intact, found by Howard Carter, his tomb has taught us alot about the Ancient Egyptians

A tomb, was only made for one person and their belongings

Building in which Pharohs worshipped, and would one day be worshiped as Demi-Gods

Has the body of a lion, and the head of a king or God, symbolizes strength and wisdom

stone coffin, usually more than one for kings and queens

Held the Rock-Cut Tombs, where kings were buried, including King Tut

Was a book of writings that were placed in tombs to let the dead know what to say and not say once they were in the after life

what they called the dessert around the them that could not be cultivated

What they called the land around the Nile River, that could be cultivated

red orange translucent gemstone, was used on sarcophagouses

Deep blue colored gemstone

Light blue, green gemstone, used for

longest river, located in Africa, flows through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt

Line, Shape/form, Texture, Color, Size, Space, Value

Geometric, Organic, Anthropomorphic, Free Form

• Fine Arts,
• Useful Arts
• Environmental Arts

• Religion
• Politics
• Design of Useful Objects
• Humor

It defines us as human beings

• All have names and rules
• i.e
• 4 sides=Square

Look like plants or animals

• looks or reminds of human form,
• Pillsbury Dough Boy

looks Random

there are 12 different hues

Purity

Hues+White

Hue+Grey

Hue+Black

• Black any metallics
• Grey any wood
• White
• Brown
• Tan
• Beige

• Pigment-coloring agent
• Binder-usually mineral

• Physical
• Psychological
• Cultural

Any 2 colors sitting directly from each other on the color wheel

• Blues greens purples
• color of things that are cool to the touch

• things that are warm to the touch
• reds oranges yellows

mysterious, shows respect, sophistication

life

purity, cleanliness

royality

danger, romantic love

• Red
• Blue
• Yellow

• The colors that are made by combining the primary colors
• Green
• Orange
• Violet

• colors made by the secondary colors
• yellow green
• blue green
• red violet
• blue violet
• red orange
• yellow orange

the property of light reflected off a surface in the form of a particular visible wave length and perceived as a hue in the spectrum

iron oxide content

• water
• oil
• egg yolk

• monochromatic
• simple compliment
• double compliment
• triad
• analogous

one hue

two opposite hues

2 hues side by side and their opposites

any 3 hues that are equally away from each other

any 3 or more hues sitting side by side

people that gathered their own game, berries, etc

found in France, a cave that Ice Age art has been found, mostly large animals

found in Spain, a cave, Ice age art found, mostly large animals

• wild horses
• cattle
• deer
• bison

• where the carving were placed- deep in caves
• there are mostly of what they were going to hunt-large animals, few predators
• marks found-may have been from spears that had been thrown at the paintings to get hyped

long ago, people invented all the major art forms

stone carvings of what looked like very pregnant women,

• Kaolin
• Chalk
• Charcoal
• hematite

• whitish color used for painting
• natural white

mangonize oxide, burnt wood, used for black

• iron oxide,
• or red ocher
• used for red color

city dwelling

"land between the rivers"

land between tigris and Euphrates River

Wedge shaped writing, ancient sumar

• Agriculture
• Irigation
• The Wheel
• Beer
• Centralized Government
• Cities
• Writing
• Written Law

List of Gods and Goddesses worshiped by any culture

2000 Years

• we can read their writing
• we found King Tuts Tomb
• The paintings on the Pharoh's tomb walls

• means writing that combines symbols for things and sounds
• was not only used by egyptians

• tombs that were found in the Valley of the Kings
• Cut out of Rock or stone

daily life

• lapis-Lazuli
• turquoise
• Carnelian

• Rule or long accepted practice
• i.e.
• Men painted redish brown
• women painted cream or light brown

Mud brick

place where queens were buried

• Flood
• receding of the waters
• dry season

because their religion developed from nature worship

• branch of philosophy that deals with
• What is Beauty?
• What things are beautiful?

surface quality in and object

• large-important
• small-precious or fragile

• positive
• negative

• darkness
• lightness
• i.e
• pink is a value of red

• Horizontal
• diagonal
• vertical