Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
New Stone Age
-new stone tools invented and advances in domestication, agriculture, and pottery |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Focusing on the visual information we need for the task at hand and relegating everything else to background |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Latin for "vanity"
genre of painting focused on the vanity of earthly life and happiness |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| branch of philosophy concerned with the feeling aroused in us by sensory experiences |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| art that addresses the sense of sight |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented or otherwise distorted. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Art created according to the belief that the essence of art resides in a motivating idea, and that any physical realization or recording of this idea is secondary. Often Ephemeral. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| what a work is about, its subject matter |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the personal and social circumstances surrounding the making, viewing, and interpreting of a work of art; the varied connections to the world of its time and place |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1. The physical appearance of a work of art - its materials, style and composition
2. Any identifiable shape or mass, as a geometric form |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the identification, description, and interpretation of subject matter in art |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an art form in which an entire room or similar space is treated as a work of art to be entered and experienced. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| art that is meant to accurately imitate the physical world. Not as strict as realism. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
nonrepresentational
art that does not represent or refer to the visible world |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
nonobjective
work that does not represent or refer to the visible world. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| art that depicts forms in the natural world. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a set of characteristics that can be identified as constant with a particular artist, group or culture |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| representational art in which methods for depicting forms have become standardized and can be repeated without further observation of the real-world model. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the objects or events depicted |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
French for "fool the eye"
representational art that mimics optical experience so faithfully that it may be mistaken for reality momentarily. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| art by self-taught artists |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
division os arts that require skill, genius, and imagination with results for pleasure, not purpose.
painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| boys who work under a master. Perform menial tasks and learn form master some of the essential skills. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
styles held by a culture
aztec style... |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
style of a certain period of time
gothic, romantic, etc. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
styles shared by a particular group of like-minded artists
impressionist style |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| religious specialists who acts as a medium between the human and spirit worlds. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| composition with three panels. Generally hinged so that the outer panels fold like shutters. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an image that persists after the visual stimulus that produced it ceased. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
the juxtaposition of hues that contain the same color in differing proportions
such as red-violoet, pink and yellow-orange, which all contain red. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
italian for "light-dark"
technique of using values to record light and shadow, especially to give three-dimensional form. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| intensity; the relative purity or brightness of a color |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| circular arrangement of hues used to illustrate a particular color theory or system. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| hues that intensify each other when juxtaposed and dull each others when mixed |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the perceived edges of a three dimensional form |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| closely spaced parallel lines that mix optically to suggest values (crossed when cross hatching) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| colors ranged along the blue curve of the color wheel, from green through violet. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| shape perceived to be dominant against the background. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| visual phenomenon, elongated object projecting toward or away from view appears shorter than actual length. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the perceived background.negative shapes |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the family name of a color, independent of its particular value or saturation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
the relative purity or brightness of a color
also chroma or saturation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| uses diagonal lines to convey recession but parallel lines do not converge. Primarily in east Asian art. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| art that incorporates movement rather than just depicting it. may include, film video, and performance art. Most often applies to sculpture that is set in motion |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| based on observation that distant objects appear less distinct, paler, and bluer than nearby objects because of moisture in atmosphere intervening and scattering light. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| based on the observation that parallel lines spear to converge as they recede form the viewer, meeting at the vanishing point on the horizon |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| three dimensional form, often implying bulk, density, and weight |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| having only one color, work with one hue |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a palette in which all colors are permitted. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the tendency of the eyes to blend patches of individual colors near one another so as to perceive a different, combined color. Used in pointilism |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1. A surface used for mixing paints
2. the range of colors used by an artist or a group of artists, either generally or in a specific work |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the literal surface of a painting imagined as a window, so that objectes depicted in depth are spoken of as behind or receding from the picture plane etc. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Georges Seurat
Pure colors were applied in regualr, small touches that blended through optical color mixture |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
a hue that cannot be created by a mixture of other hues
red, yellow and blue |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the blending of a ray of light |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| palette limited to a few colors or their mixtures, tints, and shades |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| intensity; the relative purity or brightness of a color |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a hue made by combining two primary colors. orange, green, and violet |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
a color darker than a hue's normal value
maroon is a shade of red |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a two-dimensional area having identifiable boudaries, created by lines, color or value changes |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| phenomenon where complementary colors appear most brilliant side by side |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a pattern of closely spaced dots or small makrs used to creat of sense of three-dimensionality on a flat surface |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| intermediate colors; colors made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a color scheme based in three hues equidistant from one another on the color wheel |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the relative lightness or darnkess of a hue or neutral |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| colors ranged along the orange curve of the color wheel, from red through yellow |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the representation of more important figures as larger than less important figures |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| areas of the composition are purposefully made less visually interesting so that the empahsis stand out |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the slight swelling or bulge built into the center of a column to make the column seem straight visually |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Greek for "maiden" or "girl", used as a generic name for the many sculptures of young women produced during the archaic period of greek civilizations |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| greek for "youth" or "boy", used as a genderic name for nude youths in greek civilization |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| outlines are carved into the surface and the figure is modeled within them., from the surface down. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| ancient meopotamian architecture, a monumental stepped structure symbolically understood as a mountiaing and serving as a platform for one or more temples |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a passageway flanking a central area |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a vaulted passageway for walking around the apse |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| `a sytle in european and western Asian art in ancient and medieval times based on linear, stylized animal forms. Often found in metalwork. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the semicircular, proturding niche at one or both ends of the nave |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in roamn architecutre, a standard type of rectangular building with a large, open interior. used for administrative and judicial purposes. Adapted for early church architecutre. Incluedes nave, clerestory, aisle, and apse. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| period in medieval European history dominated by the Frankish rulers of the Carolingian dyunasty. Artistic flowering sponsored by charlemagne. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the topmost part of a wall, , the topmost zone of the nave |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a technique of needlework in which designs or figures are stitiched into a textile ground |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
12-16th century
soaring interieors, large stained glass windows
pointed arch and flying buttress. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a portrait of a sacred person or image of a sacred event. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1. the practice of adding hand-drawn illustrations and other embellishments to a manuscript
2. an illustration or ornament thus added. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
decoration composed of intricately intertwined stirps or ribbons.
especially popular in medieval celtic and scandinavian art. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the porch or vestibule serving as an entryway to a church |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the taller central space flanked by aisles |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 14th to 16th, renewed interest in classical art |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| style of architecture from 9th to 12th century based on ancient Roman precedents. Round arch and barrel vault |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the arm of a crucifrom church perpendicular to the the nave |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Masaccio
The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Arnold Bocklin
Isle of the Dead |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Moonlight |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Polly Apfelbaum
Fallen Painting |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Louise Bourgeois
Janus Fleuri |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Mathis Grunewald
The Crucifixion, central panel of the Isenheim Alterpiece |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Snowstorm |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Ad Reinhardt
Abstract Painting |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Pablo Picasso
First Communion |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Pablo Picasso
Woman with a Crow |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Karen Kilimnik a
Madonna from Italian church on the Lost Island |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Elizabeth Louise Vigee-BeBrun
Self-portrait in a Straw Hat |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Horn Players |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Charles Ray
Oh! Charley, Charley, Charley |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Kurt Kaulper
Self-Portrait |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Tracey Emin
Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Woman of Willendorf
c. 25,000-20,000 B.C.E |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Wall Painting of Animals, Chauvet Cave |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Francis Bacon
Self Portrait |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Janine Antoni
Lick and Lather |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Hagia Sophia, 532-535, Istanbul, Turkey |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Large Buddha, Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Destroyed 2001
Iconoclasm |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Christ Teaching His Disciples, Catacomb of Domitilla |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Mara’s assault on the Buddha, with an empty throne
aniconic |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Tibetan sand mandala
Wheel of Time |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Francisco Goya
The Disasters of War, No. 39: Great Deeds Against the Dead |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Untitled (Death By Gun |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia
THE COUPLE IN THE CAGE |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Romare Bearden
Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Shimmering Substances
pg. 115
visual unity |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
Events of Spanish civil war
Depticts German bombingof Guernica
protest against war |
|
|
