ARH100 Lesson 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work. |
| Purpose | one's intention or objective in a piece. |
| Bodhisattva | wise beings who have delayed their ultimate goal of nirvana to help others attain those goals; wear halos signifying their holiness. |
| Nirvana | freedom from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. |
| Iconoclasm | described as one side of a debate that raged for over a century in the Christian empire of Byzantium; Greek for "image breaking". |
| Triptych | a configuration consisting of 3 panels side by side, mainly hinged in a way that the outer two panels can close like shutters over the central one. |
| The Sainte - Chapelle, Paris | Inferior; upper chapel. 1243-48. |
| The Great Pyramids, Giza, Egypt | Pyramid of Menkaure: 2500 BCE. Pyramid of Khafre: 2530 BCE. Pyramid of Khufu: 2570 BCE. |
| Liberty Leading the People | Eugène Delacroix. 1830. |
| Guernica | Pablo Picasso 1937. |
| Windward | Robert Rauschenberg. 1963. |
| Self-portrait with Monkeys | Frida Kahlo. 1943. |
| Empty Dream | Mariko Mori. 1995. |
| The Oxbow | Thomas Cole. 1836. |
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