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Chapters 1-5
Art vocabulary
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/11/2011

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Term
Summer
Definition

By: Giuseppe Arcimboldo

[image]

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The Turning Road, I'Esraque
Definition

By: Andre Derain[image]

[image]

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Murder in the Rue Transnonain
Definition

By: Honore Daumier[image]

 

Term
Radioactive Cats
Definition

By: Sandy Skoglund

(Serealism)

[image]

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The Temptaion of Saint Anthony
Definition

By: Salvador Dali

(Serealism)

[image]

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Artist and Model Reflected in the Mirror
Definition
By: Henri Matisse
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Dead Christ
Definition

By: Andrea Mantegna

 

Example of foreshortening

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain
Definition
Designed by Frank O. Gehry
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Guggenheim Museum in New York
Definition
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Current
Definition

By: Bridget Riley

 

example of OP art 

Term
Dog on a Leash
Definition

By: Giacomo Balla

 

Example of Dynamism and futurism

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The Two Fridas
Definition

By: Frida Kahlo

 

Mirror image, example of symetrical balance 

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Day of the Gods
Definition

By: Paul Gauguin

 

Example of Approximate symmetry and the Hierarchical scale

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Early Sunday Morning
Definition

By: Edward Hopper

Also the artist of "Gas"

[image]

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Endless Column and Bird in Space
Definition
By: Brancusi
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Cromlech
Definition

A circle of stones

 

prehistoric megalithic structure

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Megalith
Definition

A large stone

 

has been used to consruct a structure or monument

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Neolithic
Definition
Era of the New stone age, last part of stone age
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Paleolithic
Definition
Era distinguished by the development of stone tools
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Perception
Definition

How different people view normal objects

 

Peeling paint on Irol Bench

By: Ernst Haas

Term
Vanitas
Definition

Skull art

 

Latin for emptiness or meaningless of earthly life

 

Wheel of Fortune By: Audrey Flack

Term
Visual Arts
Definition
Primary visual in nature
Term
Abstract
Definition
Taking forms of the world and make them purposefully simplified, fragmented, or otherwise distorted
Term
3 Components of Art
Definition

1) Subject

2) Content

3) Form

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Composition
Definition
The organization of lines, shapes, colors, and other art elements in a work of art
Term
Conceptual Art
Definition

The Concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over the material concerns

 

One of Three chairs By: Joseph Kosuth

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Content
Definition
Message communicated by the artist
Term
Context
Definition
Personal and social circumstances surrounding the making, viewing, and interpreting of a work of art
Term
Form
Definition

3D geometrical figure

 

Cube, sphere, cylinder

 

Describes how work of art looks, size, and shape

Term
Iconography
Definition
Studies the identifcation, description, and interpretation of contents in the image (Cross)
Term
Installation
Definition

3D work that you can interact with

 

Mobiles/land art

Term
Naturalistic
Definition

Head of a King

 

Imitating or producing the effect or appearance of nature.
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Non-Objective/ Non-representational
Definition

Does not represent or refer to wordly things

 

A bunch of colorful squares

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Representational
Definition

Block features

Woman sitting with fan By: Pablo Picaso

Abstract and Cubism

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Style
Definition
A charecteristic or a number of charecteristics that we can identify as constent, recurring, or content with a particular artists work
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Stylized
Definition
Representational art on which methods for depicting forms have become standarized and contents be repeated without future observation of the real-worl model....like abstract
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Subject matter
Definition
In abstract or representational are, the object or events depicted
Term
Trompe l'oeil
Definition
To fool the eye
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Earth work

 

Definition
Spiral Jetty By: Robert Smithson
Term
Genre
Definition
The daily lives of ordinary people considered as subjject matter for art (Daily life as subject)
Term
Naive art
Definition
childlike simplicity
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Op art
Definition

Optical effects by the eye

 

Current By: Bridget Riley

Term
Relic
Definition
A body part of a saint or an ancient religious object carefully preserved
Term
Surrealism
Definition

Art of fantasy or dreams

 

Temptation of saint anthony by: Salvador Dali

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Theme
Definition
A broad idea, message, or moral of a painting
Term
Triptych
Definition
A three piece painting
Term
Achromatic
Definition
No color scheme
Term
Atmospheric perspective
Definition

The farther away an item gets the more blue they get

 

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Analogous
Definition
4 colors on the color wheel around eachother
Term
Afterimage
Definition
When starring at something for a long time then look away will see another image
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Contour
Definition
An outline or silhouette
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Complementary
Definition
Colors across from eachother on the color wheel
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Color wheel
Definition
By Sir Issac Newton
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Chiaroscuro
Definition
using light and darks to make things 3D
Term
Cross hatching
Definition
th shade with lines that intersect
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5 Elements of Design
Definition

1) Line

2) Shape

3) Texture

4) Value

5) Color

Term
Fauvism
Definition

Stron color over the representational or realistic values

 

Henri Matisse 

Term
Futurism
Definition
Concepts of speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as cars, airplanes, and cities
Term
Figure-Ground reversal
Definition
background makes a picture and so does the other object in picture, depending on how your eyes adjust [image]
Term
Foreshortening
Definition

Things are shorter when they lay down then when they stand up

 

Dead Christ By: Andrea Mantegna

Term
Hatching
Definition
Used to create shading effects by closely spaced parallel lines 
Term
High Key Value
Definition
Light or white
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Low Key Value
Definition
Dark or Blacks
Term
Hue
Definition
Main property of color, lights and darks of colors
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Isometric Perspective
Definition
Slanted lines make depth and motion
Term
Intensity
Definition
The brightness or the dullness of a color
Term
Kinetic art
Definition

Moves, mobiles

 

Alexander Calder

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Linear Perspective
Definition

One point painting looks at

 

Last supper (Jesus)- by Leonardo Da Vinci

 

Brunelesci invented it

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Line
Definition
Connects point A to B, path of a moving point
Term
Mass
Definition
3D diminsions
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Monochromatic
Definition

One color painting

 

"The old guitarist" (Blue)

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Optic Color mixture
Definition
smal dots of different colors by one another to make another color
Term
Outline
Definition
Silhoutte or outer line and featureless interior
Term
Picture plane
Definition
The flat surface of canvas or the flat surface which is usually located between the center point and the object being viewed
Term
Positive/Negative shapes
Definition
Positive shape is the object and the negative she is the space around it in the background
Term
Pointillism
Definition
Small dots of color
Term
Primary colors
Definition

used to mix

 

Red, yellow, blue

Term
Secondary colors
Definition
2 primary colors
Term
shade
Definition
mix black to color
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shape
Definition
2D figures
Term
Simultaneous contrast
Definition
opposing colors, one placed next to eachother effects eachother. may seem darker ot lighter depending in what color is placed by it.
Term
Stippling
Definition
Small dots with pen, black and white
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Tertiary colors
Definition
A secondary color with a primary color
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texture
Definition
actual textue you can feel
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Tint
Definition
Add white to colors
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3D space
Definition
length, width, and depth in differnt planes
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Triadic harmonies
Definition
Any three colors equally spaced on color wheel, three hues
Term
2D space
Definition
length and width on same plane
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Value
Definition
Shadows, darkness, contrast and light
Term
Warm colors
Definition
yellows, reds, light greens. Vivid and energetic
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Approximate Symmetry
Definition
Arrangment of elements that are similar on either side of a vertical axis
Term
Asymmetrical Balance
Definition
Off centered or odd mismatches, each side in not matchin but still balanced
Term
Balance
Definition

A state of equilibrium 

 

"The Red cube" by Yagushi

Term
Design
Definition
The organization of visual elements in a work of art
Term
Focal point
Definition
A point of focus wher initially eyes go
Term
Golden section
Definition
To create beauty and balance in layout and desin (Used to design the Notre Dame Cathedral)
Term
Hierarchical scale
Definition
more important figures are larger then less importnat figures (Kings larger)
Term
Proportion
Definition
Size between an object and its surroundings
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Radial balance
Definition
balance that radiates from a center focal point
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Rhythm
Definition
A visual beat in a painting. Your eyes travel from one component to the next
Term
Scale
Definition
Size in relation to some "normal" or constant size
Term
Symmetrical balance
Definition

Mirror image of each side

 

Native art is like this a lot

Term
Unity
Definition

A feeling of completeness is created by the use of elements. Oneness or sameness

 

160 cambell soup cans By: Andy Worhol

Term
Variety
Definition
Difference, counter part to unity
Term
Bird in Space
Definition
Brancusi
Term
Stonehenge
Definition
England, Salsburg
Term
Vietnam Vetrans Memorial
Definition
Maya Lin
Term
Starry Night
Definition
Vincent Van Gogh
Term
Wheel of Fortune
Definition
Audrey Flack
Term
Thirty are better than one
Definition
Andy Warhol
Term
Mona Lisa
Definition
Leonardo Da Vinci
Term
David
Definition
Verrocchio
Term
Chronos devouring one of his children
Definition
Francisco de Goya
Term
seated woman holding a fan
Definition

Pablo Picasso

 

cubism, representational

Term
Housepainter III
Definition
Duane Hanson
Term
Nude woman having her hair combed
Definition
Edgar Degas
Term
Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
Definition

Jan van Eyck

 

Renaissance

Term
Sainte-Chapelle
Definition

Gothic, unknown

 

Relic

Term
Modonna Enthroned
Definition

Cimabue

 

Hierachical scale

Term
Guernica
Definition
Pablo Picasso[image]
Term
Gas
Definition
Edward Hopper
Term
Self-Portrait with Monkeys
Definition
Frida Kahlo
Term
Woman holding a balance
Definition
Johannes Vermeer
Term
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Definition
Hieronymus Bosch
Term
The Dream
Definition
Henri[image]
Term
The Oxbow
Definition
Thomas Cole
Term
Spiral Jetty
Definition
Robert Smithson
Term
A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)
Definition
Jeff Wall
Term
The Raft of the Medusa
Definition
Theodore Gericault
Term
Madonna of the Meadows
Definition

Raphael

 

Triangle

Term
La Grande Jatte
Definition

Georges Serat

Pointilism

[image]

Term
Bill
Definition

Chuck Close

Modern art

[image]

Term
The Scream
Definition
Edvard Munch
Term
Nocturne in Blue and Gold (Old Battersea Bridge)
Definition
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Term
The Nose
Definition
Alberto Giacometti
Term
Sothern Cross
Definition

Alexander Calder

 

Kinetic art

Term
Deers skull with pedernal
Definition

Georgia O'Keeffe

 

Example of aproximate symatry

Term
A Bar ar the Folies-Bergere
Definition
Edouard Manet
Term
Third of May, 1808
Definition
Francisco de Goya[image]
Term
Plantoir
Definition

Oldenburg

[image]

Term
Delusions of Grandeur II
Definition

Rene Magritte

[image]

Term
Study of Human Propportions According to Vitruvius
Definition
Leonardo da Vinci
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