1. VISUAL LITERACY MASTER TEACHER 2010 BRANDY SITTS

5. Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf 28,000- 25,000 BCE Characteristics: Served as fertility image. No facial features Ball-like shapes

6. Islam Dome of the Rock 687-692 Characteristics 1 st great achievement of Islamic architecture Octagonal dome Interior is vivid and colorful

7. Ancient Africa Nok Head 500-200 Characteristics Flaring nostrils and triangle eyes are unique to Nok art African culture liked heads

8. Ancient India Shiva as Nataraja 1000 Characteristics Nataraja means Lord of the Dance Portable image Dwarf that she is standing on represents ignorance

9. High Renaissance Sculpture David by Michelangelo 1501-1504 Characteristics Formal references to classical antiquity Compositionally and emotionally connected to an unseen presence Head turned to show pent up energy

10. Late Gothic Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan Van Eyck 1434 Characteristics: Almost every object portrayed sanctity Symbolism Purpose: Record and sanctify marriage Dog: Fidelity, Shoe: Holy Ground

11. Neoclassicism Oath of the Horatii by David 1784 Characteristics: Conflicts between heart and patriotism Statuesque figures- men: Rigid, Angular

12. Romanticism (Spanish) The Third of May 1808 by Goya 1808 Characteristics: Encouraged empathy of the Spanish by portraying horrified expressions and enhanced drama through stark use of darks and lights

13. Romanticism Characteristics: Actual historical event Subdued palette and prominent shadow lend ominous pall to the scene Emotionally charged Comments on slavery  Apathy Raft of the Medusa by Gericault 1818-1819

14. Fauvism Red Room by Matisse 1908-1909 Characteristics: Color = Warmth Colors contrast richly and intensely Depicts objects in simplified and schematized fashion and flattening out form

15. Photo Realism Fanny Finger Painting by Close 1985 Characteristics: One moment it’s a spitting image of a person, the next it’s an animated pattern of spots

16. Cubism Spanish Civil War World’s Fair in France Shows anguish of residents murdered in Basque Country of Spain Guernica by Picasso 1937