Art History Quiz Flashcards

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Question 1
What is this?
What year?
What culture?
Akhaten
1350 BCE
Egyptain
Question 2
What is this ?
What year?
What culutre?>
Rembrandt's Shepards print
1634
christian
Question 3
What is this?
What year?
What culture?
Pope Paul II with grandsons
1546
by titan
European christains
Titan was commisened by pope
also gives illusion of space by overlapping
Question 4
What is this?
What year?
What culture
"Untitled"
Bill taylor year 1945
naive self taught artists
no depth nor space
silloutette figures
Question 5
What is this?
What year?
What culture?
Allegory of painting
1640
by artemisia gentileschi
was raped and looked at as damaged goods
most paintings had violence against men
Question 6
What is this?
What year?
What culutre?
Lorna Simpson's "You're fine"
1988
No faces because blacks werent accepted
feminism activism
mroe conntemporty art
Question 7
What is this?
What year?
What culture?
Sally mana
1980's artist
Biographical- children are an extension of what she is
autobiographical -children's life
Question 8
What is this?
What year?
What culture?
Vincent Van Gough's stary night
his paintings show pain which is a biography of remebering his ear was cut off
year 1889
Question 9
What is this?
What year is this?
What culture is this?
Venus of Willendorf
31- 25,000 BCE
paleolithic culture

Stuff:
Sculpture in the round, exeragerated feamle charateristics
advanced possibly because of symbolism
Question 10
What is this?
what year is this
what culture is this?
Venus of Laussell
25000-23000 BCE
paleolithic culture

Stuff:
faded face showing exergaerated feamle boddie parts are more important
sculpture in relief
Question 11
What is this?
What year is this?
What culture is this?
Lascaux Caves
prehistoric
15000-13000 YEARS

Stuff: possibly to commenerate hunt
emphasis on contour illusion of dephs
mainly outlines and blown pigment
could be to bring good luck, trophy room, or show off sucess
Question 12
What is this/
What year is this?
What culture is this?
Chauvet Caves
PALEOlithic
31000 years old

stuff:
color more subtle/graident
the animals bledn togetehr and lose individual traits
Question 13
What is this?
What year is this?'
What culture is this?
Menhirs in Carnac Brittany France
Neolithic
4,000 BCE

Stuff:
all vertical
Purpose unknown most likely its for relgion or sundial since the shadows connect
Question 14
What is this?
What year is this?
What culutre is this?
Stonehenge Salisbury England
2800-1500 BCE
neolithic

Stuff:
circular patter - promlix
Question 15
What is this?
what year is this?
what culture is this?
Neolithic skull of jericho
7,000 BCE
Neolithic