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Chapter One
Prehistoric Art
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Art History
12th Grade
09/07/2009

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Black-Figure Painting
Definition
In early Greek pottery, the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes.
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Burin
Definition
A pointed tool used for engraving or incising.
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Composite View
Definition
AKA Twisted Perspective
A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally.
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Composition
Definition
The way in which an artist organizes forms in an artwork, either by placing shapes on a flat surface or arranging forms in space.
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Cromlech
Definition
A circle of monoliths. Also called henge.
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Found Objects
Definition
Images, materials, or objects as found in the everyday environment that are incorporated into works of art.
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Ground Line
Definition
In paintings and reliefs, a painted or carved baseline on which figures appear to stand.
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Incise
Definition
To cut into a surface with a sharp instrument; also, a method of decoration, especially on metal and pottery.
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Lintel
Definition
A beam used to span an opening.
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Medium
Definition
The material (for example, marble, bronze, clay, fresco) in which an artist works; also, in painting, the vehicle (usually liquid) that carries the pigment.
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Megalith
Definition
reek, “great stone.” A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures.
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Mesolithic
Definition
The “middle” Stone Age, between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic ages.
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Monolith
Definition
A column shaft that is all in one piece (not composed of drums); a large, single block or piece of stone used in megalithic structures.
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Neolithic
Definition
The “new” Stone Age.
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Paleolithic
Definition
The “old” Stone Age, during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings.
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Red-Figure Painting
Definition
In later Greek pottery, the silhouetting of red figures against a black background, with painted linear details; the reverse of black-figure painting.
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Relief
Definition
In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part. The degree of relief is designated high, low (bas), or sunken. In the last, the artist cuts the design into the surface so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher than the surface itself.
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Trilithions
Definition
A pair of monoliths topped with a lintel; found in megalithic structures.
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