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What did Mark Lehner and his crew learn during their experiment with the Great Pyramids of Egypt? |
that the pyramids were built as a result of generations of practice and experience |
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What is lapis lazuli? |
a semiprecious stone that has a vibrant blue color |
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Ziggurats were made of what material? |
mud-brick |
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Where is the Precita Valley Vision mural located |
San Francisco, California |
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In order for The Gates to be made, ________, amongst others, had to get involved. |
artists, engineers, politicians, and security guards |
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This building material is a mixture of cement and ground stone |
concrete |
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Architects consider this when designing a building. |
all of these answers |
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The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, co-directed by the architects Vittori and Fisk since 1991, was created to make buildings more ______ |
environmentally friendly |
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What was the medium of Tilted Arc? |
Cor-ten steel |
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Ordinary Athenians are shown ________ on the Parthenon frieze. |
participating in the Panathenaic Festival |
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Some common film genres discussed in this chapter are |
all of the other answers |
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One of the first popular films to use synchronized sound was |
singing in the rain |
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Composer John Cage’s Theater Piece No. 1 is influential because of: |
the performance itself and discussions of it |
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How are the locations in The Wizard of Oz distinguished |
Kansas is shown in black and white and the Land of Oz is in color |
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Amongst the innovative aspects of Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane are: |
all of the other answers |
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An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________. |
conceptual art |
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D. W. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation employed innovative techniques and was used as a propaganda tool by ________. |
THE KKK |
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Claes Oldenburg’s The Store includes sculptural replicas of ________. |
FOOD |
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Using puppets, dolls, or models to create scenes in a movie is called ________. |
stop-cell animiation |
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Vito Acconci is the artist who created ________. |
folllowing piece |
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How does Georges Braque’s Houses at L’Estaque relate to the scene it represents? |
it is an abstraction based on nature |
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John Heartfield, the artist of Have No Fear, He’s a Vegetarian, ________. |
had to flee Germany to escape arrest and persecution |
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Georges Braque’s Houses at L’Estaque is part of which movement? |
Cubism |
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Matisse made Icarus ________. |
near the end of his career, when he was confined to a wheelchair |
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Conceptual art emphasizes ________. |
the ideas behind the artwork over its realization |
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Which of the following statements best relates to Max Ernst’s Surrealism and Painting? |
it can be liberating when the imagination wanders in the mysterious realm of creativity |
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In his Untitled (1949), Mark Rothko wanted to emphasize ________. |
a deep, almost religious experience |
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Matthew Barney explains that the complexity in his Cremaster series relates to ________. |
his own wandering interests |
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Design features of the Portland Public Services Building include: |
none |
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The date of Willem de Kooning’s painting Woman I is? |
1950-2 CE |
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What does the text accompanying the image of the woman in You’re Fine indicate? |
that the woman is lying down for a medical inspection |
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Which of the following is emphasized in Lewis Wickes Hine’s Power House Mechanic Working on Steam Pump? |
the muscular male physique as a complement to the power of industrial machines |
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When was VB35 created? |
1998 |
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Which of the following artistic tendencies and formal concerns did the artist of Recumbent Figure incorporate into his sculpture? |
all |
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Who is the artist of Loving Care? |
Janine Antoni |
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How are the dual genders of the Hermaphrodite with a Dog made visible? |
one side of the body is clean shaven while the other is hairy |
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What is so revolutionary about Walking Man? |
the artist presented a rough representation of a figure as a finished sculpture |
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What is the medium of Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago)? |
color photograph |
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Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture? |
egyptian |
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what is a twentieth century art movement that favored a new perspective emphasizing geometric forms |
cubism |
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a late 20th century style of architecture playfully adopting features of earlier styles |
postmodernism |
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to make a pile |
load bearing construction |
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compare typography to technology |
typ: native tech: not native |
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what is the end goal of architechture |
a large and safe space |
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When stresses pull, they create ____, which lengthens and stretches the materials of the building |
tension |
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When stresses push, they create ____, which can squash and shorten the same materials |
compression |
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what is an examle of a load bearing construction |
pyramids |
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to create a span, or a distance between two supports in a structure |
post and lintel construction |
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the ___ rests on top of two posts |
lintel |
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perfected the rounded arch |
romans |
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is a ceiling based on the structural principles?of the arch |
vault |
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gothic innovations |
flying buttress, pointed arch. stained glass window |
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is like an arch rotated 360 degrees on its vertical axis |
dome |
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are vertical and can hold more weight |
pointed arch |
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used for stain glass to be on |
flying buttresses |
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curved, triangular like that dome sits on |
pendentive |
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what is common in churches |
barrell vault |
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important in contemporary architecture b/c available, affordble, and fast |
wooden architechture |
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can be cast in a mold to almost any shape |
molten iron;cast iron |
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describe the crystal palace |
The walls and roof were of glass supported by the skeletal cast-iron structure and glass; made by Joseph Paxton; 1/3 miles long but destroyed in fire |
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why was lumbar beneficial to use? |
it was cheap and affordable |
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a material made from iron and a small quantity?of carbon |
steel frame construction |
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who was louis sullivan |
made the wainwright building which was the first skyscrapper and is known for "form follows function" |
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used as a way of avoiding the hard right-angled edges of buildings made from blocks or bricks |
reinforced concrete |
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is a mixture of cement and ground |
concrete |
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the use of either a fibrous material or steel rods called |
rebars |
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defined as a group that shares a commonality |
community |
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Site was in use hundreds of years before stones were imported |
stonehenge |
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106 feet in diameter |
stonehenge |
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Believed to be a large calendar or observatory |
stonehenge |
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Celebrates the idea of community |
collesseum |
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Built by the Sumerians for ceremonial and civic use; Dedicted to the god of the moon: Nanna |
ziggurat |
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Only priests were allowed on the uppermost tier |
ziggurat |
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focus of converstaion is on the artist use of materials |
modernism |
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focus of conversation is on voice of inidiviual using materials |
post modernism |
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example of post modernism |
music that tells a story like country |
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This ritual procession honored the patron saint of the city: the goddess Athena |
panathenic festival |
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buildings and monuments are designed to dominate their environment |
manmade monuments |
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mesopotamian stepped tower roughly pyramid-shaped that diminishes in size toward a platform summit |
ziggurat |
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example of a man made mountain |
ziggurat |
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a type of steel that forms a coating of rust that protests it from the weather and further corrosion |
cor-ten steel |
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a paitning executed directly on a wall |
mural |
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Small storefront movie theaters |
nickelodeon |
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A Trip to the Moon was what? |
movie by George Méliès where astronomers launch themselves from a cannon and crash into the moon’s right eye. He invented Animation |
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Birth of a Nation was what? |
movie by D. W. Griffith with lots of editing techniques and many scene transitionss and silent; kkk |
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Citizen Kane was what? |
movie by Orson Welles thats considered one of most important films for it used revolutionary techniques such as Fabricated newspaper headlines and news reels Dramatic lighting Innovative editing Natural sound Elaborate sets |
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wizard of oz was what? |
movie by victor fleming that used Black and white/color used to distinguish locales |
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Singin’ in the Rain was what |
musical; synchronous sound |
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Creates the illusion of movement |
animation |
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Most common technique for making animated films |
cel animation |
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start wars was what |
moive that used special affect0s such as Super-realist paintings Detailed models Computer-generated images Digitally timed effects |
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Relatively inexpensive equipment |
video |
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why use video over film? |
its cheaper, easier to use, and can be experience on tv, broadcast, and more |
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related to beauty, art and taste |
aesthetics |
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Performed in front of a live audience and Includes all kinds of actions, not just singing, dancing, etc. |
performance art |
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what kind of art do you use your body |
performance art |
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Ideas behind an artwork are the most important; Often requires the viewer to complete the piece |
conceptual art |
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when the artist gets rid of the obj in favor of an idea |
conceptual art |
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Choreographs an entire space, not just a single artwork |
installation art |
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use of a space as art instead of an obj |
installation art |
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what type of art was influece by john cage |
performance art |
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Promotes ideas as artworks in and of themselves |
conceptual art |
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Influenced by the Dada movement |
conceptual art |
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a work involving the human body in front of an audience |
performance art |
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a work in which the ideas are often as important as how it is made |
conceptual art |
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an artwork created by the assmebling and arrangment of objects in a specfici location |
installation art |
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anarchic anti-art and anti-war movement that reveled in absurdity and irrationality |
dada |
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describe the ?Venus of Urbino |
Idealized body Exists for the viewer’s gaze originial/italian |
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describe Olympia |
Not mythological or religious This woman is a prostitute Gazing out at the viewer in a confrontational manner Same composition Dog replaced by a cat Maidservant of African descent |
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describe the Portrait (Fugato) |
Evokes the Classical nudes of Titian and Manet Uses digital technology |
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describe the painting "judith decapitatiating holofernes" |
judith, a jewish woman, murdered drunken Holofernes with his own sword b/c he was an assyrian who punished jews |
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"Pair of Gèlèdé masqueraders wearing appliquéd cloth panels" is about what? |
Femininity Motherhood Role of women in sustaining a community |
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describe the "Navajo medicine man in a healing ceremony" |
Constructed as part of a prayer or ceremony Intentionally ephemeral Closely connected with nature Once finished, the ailing person sits in the center Absorbs the power of the deities and ancestors |
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Pioneers of Modernism: |
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso |
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what was matisses main contribution |
color and form |
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what was picassos main contribution |
form and shape |
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who used the following |
matisse |
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describe matisses painting joy of life |
it was Not naturalistic A way to express emotions Bold rather than subdued lots of naked women |
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describe The Red Studio by matisse |
its painted in intense red, makes it have a flat plane |
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Spanish artist |
picasso |
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Worked with Picasso to develop Cubism |
georges baroque |
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Emphasized geometry instead of illusionism |
cubism |
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describe picassos Les Demoiselles d’Avignon |
experments with female body; Although abstracted, the figures are still recognizable as people |
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describe baroques Houses at L’Estaque |
its an early cubist painting with houses and trees that is abstract but you can still see the trees and houses |
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describe Pablo Picasso, ?Glass and Bottle of Suze? |
its a later phase of cubism and is a collage; contains an actual bottle label and newpaper clips |
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explored ways of portraying emotions to their fullest intensity |
expressionist |
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Vasily Kandinsky, ?Improvisation #30 expressionist or cubist? |
expression;Inspired by talk of war in 1913 Reflects turmoil of the time, but not a specific event |
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street Berlin expressionist or cubist? |
expression |
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Pablo Picasso, ?Glass and Bottle of Suze expressionist or cubist? |
cubist |
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Georges Braque, Houses at L’Estaque expressionist or cubist? |
cubist |
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Pablo Picasso, ?Les Demoiselles d’Avignon expressionist or cubist? |
cubist |
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Reaction to World War I |
dada |
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Opposed rationality and convention |
surrealism |
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aimed to challenge the idea of objective reality |
surrealist |
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what was Giorgio De Chirico, The Melancholy and Mystery of the Street |
surreal |
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what was Joan Miró, Object |
surreal |
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Some movements influenced by Cubism: |
Futurism Abstraction Suprematism De Stijl |
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Celebrated dynamic movement, progress, and modern technology |
futurism |
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what was Umberto Boccioni, ?Unique Forms of Continuity in Space |
futurism; Figure forcefully striding |
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whats Marcel Duchamp, ?Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 |
Combines Cubism’s geometry with Futurism’s emphasis on movement |
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His technique "action painting" elevated the importance of the process of making art |
jackson polluck |
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whats jackson pollucks famous paintng |
nonobjective mural thats supposed to be relgiious but many dont |
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___ helps not offend anyone |
nonobj art |
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