History western arts vocabulary 1-4 chapters Flashcards by Kaylee Warning

Art is the objection of feeling is…

Modern

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Assess physical properties is called what?

Formal analysis

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Identify a subject matter or symbolism is called…

Iconography

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Cultural context is called what?

Iconology

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Visually distinct characteristics that relate to an artist, region, period, etc is….

Style

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Common to chronological period is called…

Period style

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Individual artists is a….

Personal style

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Common to geographical area is..

Regional style

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Used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance is called what?

Tempera

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Pigment suspended in water, applied to lime-plaster surface is…

Fresco

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Applied to damp plaster surface is called….

Buon fresco

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Applied to dry plaster surface is….

Fresco secco

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Three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials - typically stone, wood or metal is called what?

Sculpture

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Meant to be seen in the round is….

Freestanding sculpture

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Freestanding; projects from a background surface is….

Relief sculpture

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Slight projection from a surface is called what?

Low-relief sculpture

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More than half of the circumstance of the modeled form projects from the surrounding surface is….

High-relief sculpture

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Substitution of one material for another is…

Casting

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Mold is destroyed to remove hardened cast; only one work created is…

Lost wax casting (bronze hollow-casting)

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Removing unwanted materials from sculpture; subtractive process is called…

Carving

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Dense stone, not easily molded in Chinese is…

Diorite

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Both the process & product of planning; designing & construction

Architecture

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Practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface is…

Painting

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Hard/brittle; only ground down by filling is…

Jade

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Simplest building technique; pile stones atop one another without mortar is called…

Masonry

Stones cut or shaped before use is….

Dressed

Semicircular arch supported by columns or piers are called….

Round (Roman) Arch

Composite construction material composed of aggregate- lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, small stones is called…

Concrete

Hemispherical, semi-hemispherical, pointed is called….

Dome

(hunter/gatherer): emergence of “representation” in painting & sculpture is called what?

Paleolithic

No feet; carved from pregnant woman’s perspective is called what?

McDermott

Sculptures to communicate friendly intentions; fertility & intermarriage between clans is called….

Gamble

(herdsmen/farmer): emergence of monumental sculpture & architecture is called what?

Neolithic

Predetermined scheme: lack of streets, entrances in roof is called….

Agglutinative architecture

Artificial hill; honoring the dead is…

Cairn

Stones held in place by weight of those on other side is…

Corbelled vault

Tomb with long stone corridor leading to burial chamber is called…

Passage grave

(Great stones) is called…

Megaliths

Engraved with linear designs are called

Entropic images

Circular megalithic with stone arrangement is called…

Henge

Nucleus of every city is called….

Temple

High platform is

Ziggurat

Gift of gratitude to deity is called…

Votive offering

Commemorate stele

Commemorate event or mark grave

Lower Egypt (north)

Agriculture and animal husbandry

Upper Egypt (south)

Hunting and is distance from civilizations.

People, animals, boats (travel down river of life/death) is called…

Funerary scene

Palette

Stone slab, with circular depression

Incarnation of Horus while alive, Osiris when dead is called…

Pharaohs

Linen wrap is called…

Nemes headress

Serdab

Central room

Removal of flaws, extrapolate ideal features; unaging, unchanging, beautiful is called…

Idealism

Nearly identical on the left and right side is called…

Bilateral symmetry

Ideal set of anatomical ratios is called…

Canon of proportions

Tombs hidden inside is called…

New kingdom

Great monuments (tombs emphasized over temples) called…

Old kingdom

Hunting scenes reference Horus hunting his father’s (Osiris) murderer (Seth) is called…

Allegorical

Abstract figures, rigidly aligned is called…

Return to Conservatism

Aegean civilization disappeared by Homer’s time; transformed into golden age of heroes is called…

Homer’s Iliad

Which king demanded 14 youths from Athens to feed Minotaur?

King Minos

Succeeded in slaying with Ariadne's help, then abandons her on Naxos is…

Theseus

(“House of the Double Axes”-sacrificial slaughter) is…

Labyrinth

Relieve weight is called what?

Relieving triangle

Near East origin

Heraldic

Beehive-shaped

Tholos tombs

“Man is the measure of all things” (no god-kings, centered in material world) is called

Protagoras

Vessel for mixing water and wine is called…

Krater

Renewed contact with foreign cultures are…

Composite monsters

Rosettes

Stylized flowers

Dark shaped against pale buff is called…

Black figure technique

Kouros

Youth

Kouroi

Young, athletic males

Kore

Always clothed

Four piece garment of goddess is called

Peplos

Main room where the cult statue would be placed is called…

Cella

Slight curvature outward Heavy, closely spaced columns is called…

Entasis

Altar outside at east end (facing sun) Temple proper housed is called

Cult statue

Greek temples are

Mathematical balance and harmony of cosmos

Dionysos holds what?

Kantharos

Amphora is a?

Storage jug

Maenads is a…

Female worshippers

Dionysos

Present offering of a rabbit or deer.

Symposium

Greek social gatherings of men.

Patroclus

(Achilles’ “friend” killed by Hector (Zeus’ revenge)

Achilles

Fights for his body for funerary rites; returns, kills Hector (Athena- pro-Greek)

Balanced composition

Diagonals balanced by lance-bearers.

Sculptural masses

Closed, compact, invite one to walk around (not in).

Archaic

Fleshed-out anatomy, but rigid frontal or profile.

Classical art

Humanism, rationalism, and idealism.

Life-likeness

Eyeballs of bone/ colored glass; silver teeth, eyelashes; copper lips, nipples.

Bronze hollow- casting

Greater range of motion; outstretched limbs.

Hollow-cast bronze

Greater range of motion/poses.

Contrapposto/chiastic

X-shaped

Entasis

Slight curvature outward.

Panathenaic

(“all Athenian”) Festival procession: every 4 years

Late classical

Narrative Gesture draws attention to nudity.

Pliny

Some men were “overcome with love;” priests to watch men around.

Hellenistic baroque

Theatrical gestures, pathos, and drama.

Multi-media experience

Prow of ship, crashing waves (hear and smell from fountain and waves below), feel wind billowing chiton.

Pathos

Experience tragic, painful death of figures.

Tragically heroic

Portrait-like head-ideal body.

History western arts vocabulary 1-4 chapters Flashcards

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