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Art (n.)

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art (n.)
Artistic (adj) 
Artsy
Artful
Artificial -man made, creative, not natural, interpretation, unreal, expressive, imitation, assembled
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Nature(n.)

Natural (adj)-original state, naturally occurring, involuntary, divine created,untouched by man, real

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is art nature?

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is art nature?

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Therefor art is not nature
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hand onto others, feelings he has lived through and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them
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art is the lie that tells the truth -pablo Picasso
subject=what’s it about?
art forms and take them by subject what art form that will always have a subject, literature always has a subject but archeticture doesn’t have a subject
music is in middle of having a subject and sometimes doesnt

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absolute music=

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it doesn’t have a subject

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program music=

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music that has a subject

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how can you tell if music is program or absolute?

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the title

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Wyton

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-one of most famous jazz artists

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key-

what is a theme?

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?=
major-
minor-

?=melody

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dynamics

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loud or soft 
loud=forte FF+
soft=PP+ piano 
metzo=half loud half soft 
volume is relative of person
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texture

what are 3 musical tectures?

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refers to melody 
3 musical tectures:
-monophonic=1 
-homophonic=harmony or accompaniment
-polyphonic=more than one melody going on at same time
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Meter

what are different kinds of meters?

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grouping of rythm patterns

double: 2
triple: 3
syncopation: random

how many beats per measure?

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space art foem

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painting, sculpture

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time art

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has specific start, niddle, and then end

ex=music

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what causes sound?

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-when things vibrate

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tempo

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  • time and speed of the music
  • beats per minute
  • italian terms= moderator
  • fastest musical tempo=presto
  • slowest tempo=grave
  • is not relative because can be measured beat per minute
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timbre

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-“tone color”
the characteristic sound an instrument or voice produces (nasal. breathy, mellow)
-sound quality is often a matter of instruments materials or shape
-different tones

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how many section in orchestra

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4 
strings
woodwinds
brass
percussion
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percussion instruments are?

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unpitched

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texture

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Durer
title?
medium?

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Hare

Watercolor

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Van Eyck
title?
medium?

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Arnolfini Wedding

oil

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Ghiberti
title?
medium?

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Gates of Paradise

bronze

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Verrocchio
title?
medium?

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David bronze

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Cellini
title?
medium?

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Salt Cellar

gold

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Anon. title? medium?
Emperor Justinian | mosaic
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Rembrandt title? medium?
Night Watch | oil
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Martini title? medium?
Annunciation | tempera
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Michelangelo title? medium?
David | marble
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Bernini title? medium?
David | marble
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Van Gogh title? medium?
Sunflowers | oil
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Raphael title? Medium?
School of Athens | fresco
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Durer title? medium?
Knight, Death and the Devil | engraving
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1/8 note
note with flag
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time signature is not a ?
a fraction
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time signature=
top=how many bottom=what kind of note 3/4 3 notes per measure
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. on note
=1/2 n
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medium
what is it made out of
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arts have?
1. medium 2. elements 3. form. 4. Style
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paint consists of two things?
pigments, vehicle
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fresco
fresh wet plaster and then put another layer so got to get it done before it drys. do work units means fresh then use drawings on paper doing cartoon over plaster make holes and indents to outline where to draw
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tempera
on wood thats coat with linen and smoothed down to shiny surface small breast strokes figures may look more flat/gold background
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oil
it takes a long time to dry, more demensional,
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woodcuts
wood etched in?
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gornata
layer of plaster before it drys
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mosaic
little pieces of stone, tile, and glass making a picture
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tesseray
little pieces of glass, tile,and etc for mosiac
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whats difference betweena mosiac and a stained glass?
put stain glass in wire frame | however mosiac is tiny pieces grouped together
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marble/stone
substractive carving | polish it by leather
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relief
only seen from front side
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bronze
sculpture by substitution they are hallow make clay then put rubber over it then put plaster over rubber then pur wax inside of it substituting bronze substitutes for the wax
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cadence
rested
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ternary
a b a | does it end like it starts with melody?
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how can tell between the two?
how does it end? | does it end the way it started?=ternary
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binary
A B | does it end not on same melody?
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theme
melody
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variation
changes in the elements
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theme and variations
- melody and changes - no limit on variations - A-A1-A2-A3-An - its kind of a form
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what are musical elements?
- timbre - dynamics - tempo - meter - key - texture
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what is the form of this piece of music?
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how is music form organized?
- in space | - what is happening throughout time
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sonata form
- consists of 3 parts - exposition-two themes - development-variations on theme(s) - recapitulation-return to beginning - part of something bigger
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recapitulation
return to the beginning
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-exposition-
two themes
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development-
variations on themes
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mural
like a fresco but difference is it is on dry plaster when painted
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what is recipe of tempura?
one part pigment, another part water,and one part egg yolk
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how is an engraving made?
flat plate of soft metal like copper | -and scratch picture onto surface
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what is etching?
drawn in like in engraving but with wax
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what is a lithograph?
-stone writing -lime stone plate -
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who is apollo?
god of truth, lyric poetry and the sun
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Dionysus
- go of wine and fertility | - represents emotional and irrational behavior of humans
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the coda
- tells us piece has ended - not a movement;but a part of many musical movements - italian term meaning "tail"
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canon
-polyphonic form -like a round like row row row your boat -
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fugue
- polyphonic - "run away or flee" - countermelodies - ending on a single chord
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multiple movement forms
suite
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suite
series of small movements linked by a central theme
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4 different multiple movement works
-quartet -sonata -symphony - -who is playing?
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are sonata form and sonata the same thing?
no! sonata is solo keyboard or soloist it has 3 movements (fast slow fast)
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what is exposition?
two themes
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develpoment
variations on 1
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recoputation
return to original main theme
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sonata form is often referred to as
sonata allegro form
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allegro
fast
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how know sonata?
kayboard or soloist with keyboard, 3 movements for solo instrument
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difference between sonata form and sonata?
sonata form is movement and sonata is one form of music itself
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concerto
soloist with orchestra | -3 movements fast slow fast
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quartet
2 violins 1 viola 1 cello -4 movements fast slow
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what is movement?
musical selection -part of larger work -independent -
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symphony
-whole orechestra -4 movements -
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art song
for vocals
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opera
a play in song form
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orotorio
not theatrical
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aria
soloist with dramatic accompaniment, repetition
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recitative
-imitates speech inflections and phythms
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chorus
group singing together
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overture
instrumental only | -played before curtains open
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cantata
-same with as oratorio | -
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lines
how eyes are drawn to it
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horizontal
eyes moving side to side
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vertical
opposite of horizontal looking uo and down
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value
very high or low(dark) shadows
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primary colors
-blue, yellow, red -cannot make those colors -
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secondary colors
- two primary colors put together | - green, orange, purple
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complementry colors
yellow and purple=not make anything really
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color symbolism
-red, blue purple, green, white, black, yellow -they are culture specific -
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advancing
gold | -stands out more
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receding
blue | -stands out less
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visual arts texture
- medium | - say if rough smooth hard soft?
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proportion
size of things comparatively | -
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foreshortening
-way of showing 3d space
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chiaroscuro
- light and shadow | - showing demensions
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in visual art what is meant by prospective?
.
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perspective
showing distance
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Liear Perscpetive
lines receeding together in space to the vanishing point
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atmospheric | aerial prospective
when colors change or fade in distance cause of sun reflecting on atomosphere -color and over distance objects fade and look focus -
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form in visual arts
.
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vertical pattern
up and down
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horizontal
and left to right pattern of arrangement
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the "golden section or golden mean" | formula
a + b is to a as a is to b
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triangular or pyramid pattern \
emphasizes a single triangle shape with the figures in a work
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symmetrical
balanced
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radial pattern
place all coming together, | -extreem use of point linear perspective
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asymetrical
unbalanced
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photogrpahy
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lens
see farther or shorter -what do we call the depictions of painting? perspective
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composition
triangle
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perspective vs zoom
perspective is reduced when zoom in
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when is worst time to take picture
midday
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for best landscape photography which measurement is
3
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photographers adapted the rule from painters what is it called in painting
golden rule
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lens length
length of lengths wide angle face with wide angle lense
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what is something that hasnt changed in photography?
light and composition and organize it is the same
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composition
patterns of arrangement:
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depth of field
1.4 5.6 16 -clarity -what is in focus -low depth of field only center object is in focus -
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1 one rule of portraits
get close
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good compsition
pryamid shape, close to subject,
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rule of thirds
photographers aproximation - follow it you will determine focus of the picture - want focus on intersections not in boxes
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michealanglo
david | vertical
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gainsborough
blue boy | vertical
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moran
shoshone falls | horizontal
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courbet
burial at ornans | horizontal
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leonardo
Mona Lisa | pyramidal
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Michaelangalo
pieta | pyramidal
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pierro della francesca
resurrection | pyramidal
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leonardo
virgin of the rocks | pyramidal
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cellini
salt cellar | symmetrical
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gericault
raft of the medusa | symmetrical
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Van Eyck
arnolfini marriage | symmetrical
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goya
may third symmetrical
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song form
is a verse followed by a chorus
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raphael
school of athens | radial
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scherzo
- musical joke | - audience had no idea what was going to be presented or its form
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Leonardo
last supper | radial
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canon
- round, type of fugue | - ex:row row row your boat
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concerto
- is a multiple movement work for solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment - 3 movements grouped according to tempo fast-slow-fast
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what is a bother word for art song?
lieder
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what is art songs?
are for cool voice with piano accompaniment to show off the virtuouso taken of both singer and pianist
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what two form do art songs use?
strophic and through composed
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what is strophic form of art songs?
uses the same music for each verse
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what is through composed form of art songs?
- works take the opposite approach | - they feature continually changing musical patterns throughout the composition
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overture
-is strictly instrumental composition that precedes the opening of the curtain
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parts of a opera: recitative
-where you'll get lots of words with only a small amount of music
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parts of a opera: aria
the opposite of recitative there is a lot of singing but its usually just one sentence repeated over and over
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oratorios
-new type of opera they did away with costumes and fact sets, took topics from the bible, secular to scared
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form in visual arts: repetition
repeating certain shapes
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form in visual art: juxtaposition
the placement of two dissimilar object or shapes next to one another
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form in visual art: how to balance?
-vertical pattern, horizontal patterns, symmetrical,pyramidal, radial
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form in visual art:what is the golden section?
the golden ratio of balancing a photo
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photography: what are two types of cameras?
the point and shoot and reflex
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photography: the point-and-shoot
- small easy to use and cheap - downsides are are so automatic most people won't see the occasional need to ovveride some features - wont have option of playing with depth of field
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photography: reflex camera
-are expensive have interchange parts s
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photography: what is a bulls eye?
-the subjects face is centered mind moves to all the clutter
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photography: what is aperture?
- "opening or "hole" | - in camera hole that lets in the light
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photography:what is depth of field?
-this ability to selectively focus on one area it is a function of aperture
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photography: what is a rule of aperture?
the smaller the aperture the greater the depth of field
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photography: framing: what is 3 things that will make you a better photographer?
1. don't be afraid to turn camera on end 2. learn to see everything that is in the viewfinder 3. consider the horizon line
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photography: whats the rule for flash?
the closer the flash to your camera lenses the greater your chance for red eye
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photography: what is backlighting? how can we prevent backlighting?
the background is lighter than the subject | -use fill flash icon
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literature: what is the medium of literature?
words
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literature: what is plot?
-actions and story line
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literature: what is reversal of the situation?
change by which the action veers round to its opposite, subject always to our rule of probability or necessity.
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literature: what is recognition?
a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune
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literature: character: what what is thought?
faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances. Though is found where something is proved to be, or not to be, or a general maxim is enunciated.
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literature:what is spectacle?
Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet
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literature: what is the organization and structure to theatre?
-exposition, complication, climax, denouement
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literature:what is exposition?
step introduces us to the setting and situation. | Complication-something happens to change regular scheme of things
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literature: what is complication?
something happens to change regular scheme of things
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literature:what is a climax?
greatest “drama highest level of conflict
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literature: what is a denouement?
-“untie”, resolution of conflict
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literature: what is theme?
what its about - big idea - message behind it - figurative - moral
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what type of art is iterature? and threatre?
time, and space
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