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Terms Flashcards

1
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Line

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Defines shapes and figures
Indicates motion, emotion, and other elements

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Shape/form

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Property of a two-dimensional figure
Either geometric or organic

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Color

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Sets moods and highlights important things

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Space

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Can create three-dimensional illusions in a two-dimensional piece of art

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Texture

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Either the feeling of actual objects or the illusion that a piece of art has a feeling

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Surface/depth

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Shows depth or flatness

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Light/shadow

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Reveal stories and create moods

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Balance

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Even use of things throughout the artwork (ex. symmetry)

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Movement

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Sense of motion in a static image

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Proportion

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Relationship of parts of the body to one another

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Scale

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Relationship of parts of an image to the image as a whole or something outside the image

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Pattern/repetition

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When an image/object/motif is repeated throughout the piece

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Rhythm

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A visual tempo set by repeating objects/elements

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Contrapposto

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A Greek invention that portrayed the human body naturally, breaking symmetry and creating a life-like figure

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Foreshortening

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A technique that compresses long objects to appear shorter, creating the illusion of depth, used to make art more naturalistic

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Chiaroscuro

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The technique of transitioning between light and dark to give the illusion of volume and depth, used to make art more realisitic

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Linear perspective

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The method of creating a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface

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Atmospheric perspective

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The technique of painting distant objects with less clarity to mimic how we visually see the world. It captures the visual phenomena instead of the object itself. The farther the object, the lighter it is

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Doric Order

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-Represents an important moment in Mediterranean architecture when monumental construction made the transition from impermanent materials
-Consists of plain, unadorned column capitals and a base-less column.
-Composed of triglyphs and metopes

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Ionic Order

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-Volutes!
-Base supporting the column
-Slender and elegant (like a man’s body)
-Running frieze of continuous sculptural relief

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Corinthian Order

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-Elaborately carved capital
-Vegetal motifs

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Triglyph

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Vertical “tablets” in the Doric frieze

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Metope

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Rectangular space between triglyphs

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Pediment

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Triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical architecture

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Naturalism

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Resemblance to real world as we see it

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Verism

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Portraying heroes/mythological figures as everyday people

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Representational

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Represents something/someone

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Stylization

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Designed according to the principles of a particular style rather than being beholden to the way things look in “the real world.”

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Non-representational

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Little to no reference to the natural world

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Idealization

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Looks human but represents ideals (not natural)

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Portrait

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A representation of an individual by an individual, either themselves or another artist, whose purpose is to foreground that individual as an individual with a unique personality

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Egyptian portraits

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Generic idea about status/relationship
Mathematic proportions

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Hiearchy of Scale

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The largest thing is most often the most important

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Realism

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How something actually would’ve looked, without perfect symmetry or anatomy or anything

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Registers

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Horizontal bands of decoration

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Twisted perspective

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Things are twisted so you can see all the defining features

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Apotropaic

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Wards off evil

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Sunken relief

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Carved into something

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High relief

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Image sticks out far from background

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Low relief

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Image sticks out very little from background

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Sculpture in the round

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A sculpture entirely out of its original material

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Formline

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Specific style in the Pacific Northwest that’s defined by oval and “u” shapes

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Clerestory

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Upper part of the nave of a church that contains a lot of windows

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Portico

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Porch that leads to the entrance of a building

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Flying buttress

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Extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass to distribute weight more evenly and allow for taller buildings

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Apse

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Semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome (exedra)

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Narthex

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An enclosed porch or meeting area just inside the Western entrance of a Christian church

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