humanities clep Exam 2023/2024

pop art --an artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art mosaics --patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors sculpture --three dimensional work of art, statue bust --a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person obelisk --tall, 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point multi-media --using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting louise nevelson --assembled architectural sculptures of "found" wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors. constantin brancusi --(1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space) cellini --goldsmith and sculptor, wrote one of the first autobiographies barbara hepworth --British abstract sculptor michelangelo --Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David. henry moore --abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail alexander calder --United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles () hagia sophia --Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes. gothic age architecture --stained glass, pointed arches and ribbed vaulting Andrea Palladio --architect who like a statue at every corner Le Corbusier --French 20th century architect Christopher Wren --architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral Mies van der Rohe --United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers () Frank Lloyd Wright --Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs. flying buttress --a brace or support placed on the outside of a building fresco --paint onto wet plaster on a wall tempura --a technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk gouche --Opaque watercolor pieta --A painting, drawing, or sculpture of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means "pity" in Italian. renaissance --rebirth mannerism --a style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own "manner" or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance. neo-classic period --refers to the classical revival in European art, architecture, and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century french female pose --subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder dada school --school of nonsense and anti-art Giotto --Frescoe painter, founded flourentine school, realisitc poses Donatello --Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue David. Da Vinci --painter, sculpter, architect, engineer, musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; "Mona Lisa," "The Last Supper"(classical), "Vitruvian Man"(anatomy) El Greco --Mannerism painter Rembrandt --He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson Peter Paul Rubens --Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work