Art in Williamsport, Pa, USA
Write a 5 paragraph essay analyzing a work of art in Williamsport, Pa. It can be a building, sculpture, or painting. Please use terms and concepts covered in this course to back up your opinion-based analysis of the work you choose.
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terms
Byzantine period – dated 400 CE – 1200 CE Gothic period – dated 1100 CE to late 1300s CE fresco – a medium of painting where paint is applied directly to plaster. There are two types 1. buon fresco – “true” fresco, where paint is applied to wet plaster and 2. fresco al secco, where paint is applied to dry plaster.
perspective – devices for depicting recession in space such as, overlapping,vertical, diagonal, atmospheric, one point, two point gilded – covered in gold leaf. minarets – slender towers that call the faithful to prayer (Islamic)
style – realism/naturalism, period style, regional style (like school), linear (lines), painterly (brushstroke, color) these are all styles of art, ways of making art. guild – trade organization Ramayana – Hindu epic stories that are part myth, part allegory
medium(s) – what the art is made of; marble, bronze, oil on panel, fresco register – when talking about art, it is a horizontal band that is read from left to right. gopura – entrance gateway (Hindu)
subject matter/content – what the work of art represents; conveys meaning on intent. predella – lower zone of an altarpiece. Mahavira – final savior or pathfinder in Jain religion
construction devices – in architecture things like arches, vaults, buttresses, and domes. Iconoclasm – smashing of religious objects. bodhisattva – nearly enlightened being
grisaille – monochromatic work, usually grey and white. Three religions in India after 1200
• Buddhism
• Hinduism
• Jainism