Midterm #1- Art 100-2

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Midterm #1 Slide Identification (3 points each): Title of the work, country or place of origin, and date it was created. Other aspects could include artist’s name, style used, materials used, size of work, significance of the artwork. 1. Water worn pebble, Makapansgat, South Africa. 3,000,000 BCE 2. Chauvet Cave, France. 32,000-28,000 BCE 3. Venus of Willendorf, Austria. 25,000 BP 4. Mask of Warka, Iraq. 3,200-3000 BCE 5. Tell Asmar Hoard, Iraq. 2,900-2,500 BCE 6. Bull Headed Lyre, Ur. 2,550-2450 BCE 7. Head of Sargon, King of Akkad, Nineveh. 2,334-2,154 BCE 8. Code of Hammurabi, Iran. 1,775-1,750 BCE 9. Human-headed Winged Bull (Lamassu), Nimrud. 883-859 BCE 10. Ishtar Gate, Iraq. 575 BCE Short Answer (2 points each. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate answer.) 1. _________Symbolic Thought_____ is the representation of reality through the use of abstract concepts such as words, gestures, and numbers. 2. An __________artifact_____________ is any object made or modified by a human. 3. ____________Iconography_____________ is the symbolic meaning of subjects and signs used to convey ideas important to a particular culture or religion. 4. The Greek philosopher ________Plato____________ was interested in idealism, symmetry, and proportion. 5. The Greek philosopher _______ Aristotle ______________ was interested in mimesis (imitation). 6. _________Aesthetics____________ is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

7. Lithos is Latin for ________stone____________. 8. ______________ Homo Habilis ____________ are credited with development of making stone tools. 9. Homo erectus are credited with the development of ________symmetry_____________. 10. _______ Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis ______________ are credited with the development of architecture, ritualized burials, ritualized offerings. 11. Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnon) are credited with the development of __________image making_______________. 12. __________Architecture_____________ is an enclosed space with at least some aesthetic intent. 13. The ________Neolithic Revolution____________ was the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the domestication of animals, and settlement. 14. In Western and Northern Europe, people used huge stones to erect ceremonial structures and tombs referred to as, ____Megalithic__________ architecture. 15. A _______stele________ is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes. 16. Ziggurats were huge stepped structures with a ______temple or shrine____________ on top. 17. __________Votive figures__________, images dedicated to the gods, were stand-ins for the worshipper, offering up prayers in the donor’s absence. 18. ________Hierarchial Scale_____________ is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork. 19. ____Iconoclasm________ is the deliberate destruction of religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives. 20. Coins function as economic standards, small artworks, and as ______Propoganda___________. Essay (Worth 30 points) : Do a search for ‘Stonehenge Riverside Project’. You will find relevant materials highlighted in the Page ‘Art of the Neolithic’. Explain what the team discovered and what we know about the area surrounding Stonehenge through their research. Be sure to include the conclusion of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. You will find relevant materials highlighted in the Page ‘Art of the Neolithic’. All the major talking points are included in the lecture ‘Art of the Neolithic’. Stonehenge Riverside Project

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