Art 101 Quiz

Overview, background: Enlightenment, (Newton & Galileo); Classicism/Romanticism (French & other Revolutions); Impressionism & Post (Industrial Revolution, Darwin), Modernism (WWI, Freud, WWII) Pop & Op (Vietnam, sexual revolution, Watergate); today (technological revolution).

9. Would you like a coffin designed by Kane Kwei? If yes, what form might it take?

Form of "afterlife insurance" in order to trick the soul into staying alive in the event of the body's destruction

1. Discuss the impact of photography on the nineteenth-century landscape. How did it affect painting? What were the political implications of the medium? Use examples to support your essay.

Definition of Archeology Uninformed people might think that archaeology is the stuff of Indiana Jones, the character played by Harrison Ford in the classic 1981 Movie entitled Raiders of the Lost Ark. In this movie, Jones was an adventurer and so-called “archaeologist” who sought a golden idol. Jones did not proceed in an orderly, scientific fashion, nor record the surroundings, location, or precise measurements. There are many different definitions for archeology, and here are a few: “Archeology is the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains” says one source, “It is an area of science that studies people and animals from the past and the things they

Archaeology in the media is portrayed as very high risk and thrilling. Not to diminish the excitement of archeology, but the portrayal of archeology in movies is extremely exaggerated and far from accurate. In Indiana Jones Indy is often plagued by so many forces that try to set him back from his archaeological goals. He faces looters, booby traps, destructive weather, etc…

Historians are willing to articulate uncertain interpretation of ancient art because infer/guess based on the repetition of info. It is highly appropriate for historians to investigate because guessing leads to hypotheses, hypotheses leads to theories, theories leads to

Ancient artifacts tell us much to all of what we know about our worlds past, these crucial remnants of past cultures allow us to physically see what was essential and valued by these ancient peoples. Artifacts tell us about suspicions, beliefs, everyday life and everything in between — without these crucial remnants of culture, we could not even begin to understand what was before us. Although these artifacts are useful for learning and understanding ancient civilizations, there is much debate about the morality of other countries buying and “owning” these historical pieces. Every civilization, past and present leaves behind a cultural trail everywhere it goes thus making exploration of different countries so very easy.

1. It was hard to get the feet to look realistic. The detailing part was hard to. Like you had to get all the contrast, structure, movement, and realism. It was hard especilly because in my painting my feet were small. Another hard part was getting the right shade. Like ppaint the feet a color and then make it a little darker for the areas that neede shading and dimension to give a realistic/ contrast to distinguish the difference. It was hard to get a shade that wasnt dramatically drker that the feets color.

Within Archaeology, there are many various subfields. Marine Archaeology was a topic I didn’t even know existed, but through listening to the speaker, I was able to learn about the in-depth specifics of this subfield. I feel this was helpful to the class since our weekly lectures go over a lot of information that might not go very in-depth, but by listening to this speaker, we were given a chance to hear a lot of specifics on research happening right now. Regarding the discussion on how this relates to a larger scope of society, I think the main takeaway for the public is the imaging used from this research. Using very advanced technology, through photographs alone, the team in Guam was able to create an exact replica of the site that could be viewed from every angle on a computer. Since a large amount of the public won’t go deep diving, this is a great way to easily bring interesting Archaeological history to society. Through this Marine Archaeologist’s research, my Anthropology class was able to benefit by learning information on current Anthropology, and society is able to benefit from the research’s historical relevance as well as its technological advances that bring Marine Archaeology to

What is heritage and who has the power to determine the entities that own these cultural artifacts and the way that heritage is remembered in society? Lowenthal states that heritage illustrates society’s ancestries, artifacts, and cultural identity (Lowenthal, 22). Barber addresses how government can alter the interpretation of a culture. The articles in The Antiquities Act expressed the importance that legislative actions have in the field of cultural resource management through the protection of antiquities that represented the nation’s heritage. The theme of the readings depicts the influence that a country’s government has in preserving and interpreting its nation’s culture. When analyzing the theme, it is important to understand how claiming

In Reading the Past, Ian Hodder argues that Processual, or New, Archaeology is flawed and that we must look at approaches used before its adoption and integrate parts of those approaches into the study of archaeology. He points out that Symbols in Action helped him to develop three ideas regarding how to do this. First, we must consider that material culture has meaning. Second, that the individual is important to the development of theory in archaeology; and finally that archaeology is most closely related to history and should consider that in its approach.

Popular culture has conditioned people to think that the study of art is a luxury only relevant to the upper capital class. However, what people failed to realize is that studying art is essential in understanding the dominant culture in a given period because a period’s culture is frequently expressed in the form of art. Whether it is Greek’s Parthenon or Mycenaean’s Tiryns, they both tell later generations of stories about the time. Therefore, the study of art compliment the study of history in understanding the human past by providing the complete picture and the social factors that drive people’s actions whether it is the good , the bad and the indifference. The art works of a time period are influenced by the dominant culture and studying ancient art help people understand the past and thus guide our actions in the present.

The first article by Nancy Parezo analyzed the importance anthropologists have had in museums and their influence in the exhibits (2015). Anthropologists have assisted by helping various and distinctive groups and societies express their stories in the form of

‘What I like so much about contemporary art now is its ambiguity, its uncertainty. It is precisely this quality that engages and unsettles us’ – Benjamin Genocchio, art critic.