Visual Arts CST Exam Study Test.

Visual Arts CST Exam Study Test. 1. Geometric Art (Greece) 2. Hellenistic Art (Greece) 3. Japanese wood- block printing 9th - 8th Century B.C. Pottery ornamented with geometric banding, friezes of simple animals, humans 323 - 31 B.C. Greek derived style found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt More melodramatic than Classical style Flat, bright colored prints Contrast, linear patterns Cropped compositions, single point perspective ukiyo-e prints - floating world (brothels, red light district) 4. Waste Molding Can only be used once Plaster mold Best for large scale sculpture Steps: (1) coat original in vaseline or resist, section ott with lines (2) Coat with plaster mix in several layers (3) Mother mold, cut based on sections (4) Original is destroyed, fill mold with material 5. Baroque "The Ornate Age" - mid 16th - 18th century () Sensitivity/Mastery of light for emotional impact Roman Catholic Church - dramatic style - power and control Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Velazquez 6. Cubism Analytic (1st phase) to Synthetic (2nd - collage) Natural forms changed by geometrical reduction Early 20th century Many views of one subject Picasso, Braque, Leger 7. Art Nouveau 1890s Decorative style - forms based on objects found in nature Gaudi (Barcelona, Spain) Aubrey Beardsley - erotic illustration, based on Japanese prints 8. Baldacchino Ornamental canopy over an altar (church) 9. S Curve Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture Extension of contrapposto 10. Contrapposto Italian "counterpose" Weight shift on one foot 11. Bauhaus Walter Gropius Functional and aesthetically pleasing Mass produced for society 20th century 12. Abstract Expres- sionism New York 1940s painting movement Non-representational Action Painting (deKooning, Pollock, Kline, etc) 13. Armory Show 1913 exhibition, New York introduced Modernism (Paris) to America Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase (II), 1912 - beginning of Cubism 14. Art Deco Applied design, 1920s - 30s Derived from French, African, Aztec, Chinese motifs Architecture and crafts 15. Romanticism 1800-50 Age of Sensibility