Rebirth or revival of the artistic style of the ancient Greeks and Romans - in Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries
Renaissance
The art of painting with water colors on wet plaster
Fresco
An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of such elements as scale and proportion - often had elongated, twisted figures
Mannerism
The Virgin Mary
Madonna
A painting or sculpture of the virgin Mary holding and mourning over the dead body of Jesus
Pieta
The technique of using light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art
Chiaroscura
A style of art and architecture from 1550to 1700 typeified by elaborate, ornate, and flamboyant style - Full of movement, figures, bold colors, and light
Baroque
Art that is simple crude or unsophisticated that has figures and landscapes that often look like a cartoon
Primitive art
A painting photographs etc. depicting a view of scenery or land
Landscape
An artistic representation thought to be visually accurate
Realism
A form of art that depicts objects of every day life and adapts techniques of commercial art such as comic strips
Pop art
A movement in France emphasizing vibrant expressive colors to express subjective feelings whose name means wild beast
Fauvism
The practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they are blended by the eye Seurat
Pointillism
The practice in art of producing fantastic incongruence imagery or affects by means of unnatural juxtaposition and combination
Surrealism
A picture consisting of inanimate objects
Still life
A practice in painting especially among French painters of about 1870 of depicting the natural appearance of objects by means of Dabbs or strokes of unmixed primary colors in order to stimulate actual reflected light
Impressionism
The photo-mechanical dots that constitute the shading in a comic strip Roy Lichtenstein is most famous for using these
Ben Day dots