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| Question | Answer |
| Iconography | Visual images and symbols used in a work of art/the study or interpretation of these. |
| Perspective | The way in which someone views something. |
| Patronage | Support from someone who provides financial and/or social support. |
| Idolatry | The worship of idols. |
| Iconoclasm | The rejection/ destruction of religious images as heretical |
| Censorship | Suppression/prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. |
| Reformation | 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Catholic Church ending in the creation of the Reformed and Protestant Churches. |
| Protestantism | 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Catholic Church ending in the creation of the Reformed and Protestant Churches. |
| Genius | Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability. |
| Authorship | Writer of a book, article, or document, or creator of a work of art. |
| Originality | To think independently and creatively/ being novel or unusual. |
| Cabinet of Curiosities | Rooms w/ notable collections of objects |
| Global Markets | Products or services that were available in the worldwide market. |
| Collecting | Bring or gather together things. |
| Commodities | Raw material, agricultural product, thing that can be bought and sold. |
| Consumer Culture | Where social status, values, and activities center on the consumption of goods and services. |
| Arts and Crafts Movement | Social/artistic movement in 2nd ½ of 19th cen. emphasizing return to handwork, skilled craftsmanship, and attention to design in the decorative arts v.s.mechanization and mass production of Industrial Revolution |
| Black Mountain College | Experimental school became a crucible for mid-20th century avant-garde art, music, and poetry. |
| Mass Production | Producing large quantities of a standard thing w/ automated mechanical process. |
| Academy | Society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that promote/maintain standards in a particular field. |
| Canon | General law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged. |
| Genres | Category of artistic composition ex/ history, landscape, portrait etc. |
| Absolute Monarchy | Total control of power by a monarch. |
| Versailles | Palace/ grounds built by Louis XIV (playground for aristocracy.) |
| Rococo | Relating to an artistic style of 18th cen w/ fanciful curved asymmetrical forms and elaborate ornamentation. (not history genre based.) |
| Neoclassicism | Revival of a classical style in art, literature, architecture, or music. |
| Romanticism | Move emphasis on inspiration, subjectivity, and primacy of individual. |
| Fascism | Way of ruling that advocates total control of the ppl. (think Germany 1930's) |
| Nationalism | Supporting a nation that makes one feel superior towards other nations. (Extreme patriotism.) |
| International Modernism | Describes a style that is meant to be international/universal. Ex/ Bauhaus, Gurnica. |
| Communism | Political theory advocating a society in which all property is publicly owned and no such thing as class. |
| Feminism | Advocacy of women's rights on the basis of = of the sexes. (Think 2nd wave feminism) Ex/ Judy Chicago. |
| Agrarian | Relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. |
| Mestizo | (in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent. |
| Orientalism | Representing Asia, and Middle East, in a stereotyped way (colonialism) |
| Primitivism | Ideology, seek to embrace/occupy other ppls culture.(Native American) |
| Hybridity | Combo of things that create a new thing. |
| Encyclopedia | Books w/ info on many subj/many aspects of 1 subj arranged alphabetically. |
| Enlightenment | Intellectual movement of the late 17th-18th cen emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. |
| Haussmannization | Forcible reconstruction of cities to enhance beauty and impose order. (Paris, wider streets, Georges Eugene Haussman.) |
| Colonialism | Taking control of a region to extract resources/ settling in said region. |
| Post-Colonialism | The lasting impact of colonization in former colonies. |
| Pygmalion and Galatea | Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture. He prays to goddess Aphrodite (aka Venus) to bring the sculpture to life for it to be his wife. |
| Gertrude Stien | American novelist, poet, playwright, art collector, and patron of Picasso. |
| Georgio Vasari | Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous for Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the founder of art-historical writing |
| Leon Batista Alberti | Italian renaissance humanist who wrote the first guide book for artists called "On Painting" that taught perspective and praised artists skill. Ex/ gold leaf v.s. painting gold. |
| Cesare Ripa | Italian Iconographer who wrote the book Iconologia. |
| Martin Luther | German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. |
| Louis XIV, XV and XVI | Kings of France that built Versailles and instigated the French Revolution. (think genre paintings, rococo, and Oath of the Horattii) |
| Diderot | Enlightenment thinker, wrote the first encyclopedia. (Hated the Rococo) |
| Adolf Hitler | Fascist leader of Germany in 1930's and 40's. Organized the Great and Degenerate art exhibitions as well as the Nuremberg rallies. |
| Paul Schultze-Naumburg | German architect, painter, publicist and politician. Wrote the book Art and Race which basically said that ppl who made modern art were mentally ill, or criminals. |
| José Vasconcelos | Minister of Education in Mexico in the 1910-20s that sponsored/ organized the Mexican Mural Movement. |
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