1. Houston Community College Stafford Campus
Fall 2017 Arts 1301 Art Appreciation
Monday & Wednesday
Professor: Rolando Reyna
Exam 5 Study Guide

2. The Terracotta Army or the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.

3. Art of the Americas and Mesoamerica

4. Pre-Columbian- The cultures that flourished in the Western Hemisphere before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the beginning of European contact and conquest.

5. The Pyramid of the Sun, built in the 2nd century AD, dominates the landscape of the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico. Teotihuacan -the place of the Gods - was the first true city in Mesoamerica, at its peak AD - it housed more than 100,000 people. It is the third largest pyramid in the world.

6. The prehistoric Native Americans called the Ancestral Pueblo lived on the plateau where the U.S. states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah now meet. Their culture reached its height between about AD 700 and The descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo make up the modern Pueblo Indian tribes.
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7. Renaissance - The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. ... Renaissance means “rebirth” or “reawakening.”

8. The Baroque style is characterized by exaggerated motion and clear detail used to produce drama, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture , painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.

9. Modern art refers to artistic works produced from the 1860s to about the 1970s. It refers to the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The period coincides with the invention of mechanical means of recording images: photography and film.

11. Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism)-
Is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content