Terms

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

(1)A general style of painting that developed during the twentieth century period of art history, characterized by subjects that were not realistic. Abstract paintings feature shapes, lines, and colors, like more realistic paintings, but sometimes don’t represent objects in the real world at all. Paintings that distort reality, but not so much that we can’t still recognize real-world objects, are sometimes called semi-abstract.(2) a category of paintings whose subjects are individual art elements like color, line, and composition or the painted surface itself rather than representations of things in the real world.

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

A work that uses symbols, often human forms, to stand for ideas or to convey messages.

Question 3

Art elements

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The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

Question 4

Background

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The part of the painting that seems farthest away from viewer.

Question 5

Canvas

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(1) a painting. (2) treated fabric, stretched over a frame, to which paint is applied.

Question 6

Cityscape

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A type of landscape painting that features scenes of streets, buildings, and other city features.

Question 7

Complementary colors

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Pairs of colors that are farthest away from each other on the color wheel, and are most different from each other (for example, red and green or orange and blue)

Question 8

Composition

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How individual art elements, like light, color, lines, and shapes, work with each other and as a whole to form a complete painting. Light and shade make us see a three-dimensional image instead of just two dimensions. Color helps set the mood, and suggests relationships between the parts of a painting. Lines and shapes organize space and create structure.

Question 9

Contrast

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A comparison that draws attention to the differences between things. Artist a use many different elements to create contrast, example: color (warm and cool, or bright and dull), light (light areas of canvas and dark areas), lines (straight and curved, vertical and agonal), textures (hard and soft, rough and smooth), sometimes even the subjects of the painting (an old man and a baby).

Question 10

Cool colors

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Colors such as blue, green, lavender, purple, and others that we associate with cool or cold temperatures, like the cool green of a shaded forest, or the icy blue of a mountain lake.

Question 11

Cubism

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A style of painting developed in France early in the Twentieth Century period of art history. Artists took familiar objects from every day life, broke them up into geometrical figures like cubes and triangles then put them back together, forcing viewers to see familiar objects in unfamiliar ways.

Question 12

Fauvism

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A style of painting practiced briefly at the beginning of the twentieth century period of art history, with shockingly bright colors strange or twisted forms of human figures and other objects.

Question 13

Foreground

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That part of a painting that seems closest to the viewer.

Question 14

Form

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The three-dimensional shape of an object, shown tradition in painting through variations of light and dark paints or by grace shadings of color.

Question 15

Genre painting

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A painting of ordinary people engaged in common, everyday activities.

Question 16

History and legend painting

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A painting that tells a story about important people or important events.

Question 17

Impressionism

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A style of painting developed in France late in the modern period of art history, by artists who wanted to create impressions of light and color that, when seen as a whole, would form pictures in viewers minds. Impressionist artists placed different colors side-by-side very close together on the canvas, letting viewers eyes blend colors together. Blue and yellow, for example, from a distance blend into green. Impressionist used short, broad brush strokes that create a rough texture on the surface of the canvas. Impressionist art contains very few drawn lines, shadows, or dark colors.

Question 18

Landscape

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(1) a painting of an outdoor view that features large areas of natural scenery; (2) the outdoor itself.

Question 19

Light

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(1) the source of light in a painting, like the sun or a lamp; (2) the lightness or darkness of different areas of a painting.

Question 20

Lines

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(1) lines drawn by an artist to mark the edges of something, or outline it, like the lines that form the outer edges of a building; (2) lines formed where objects touch or overlap, so that different colors or shapes come together, like the line our eyes see at the horizon where the earth and sky meet.

Question 21

Mood

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The feeling and emotions an artist wants viewers to experience when we look at a painting.

Question 22

Neoclassism

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A style of painting, developed during the modern period of art history, which imitated the style of Ancient Greek and roman sculpture and architecture. Neoclassical paintings usually have grand themes from history and legend as subject matter. They generally include formal, balanced compositions, use strongly drawn lines to define forms, and have smooth, polished canvases.

Question 23

Neutral colors

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Colors such as black, white, and beige, which have neither a warm nor cool effect in painting.

Question 24

Perspective

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The illusion of depth or distance. Artists use many different elements and techniques to make a picture on a flat surface seem to have space and distance. For example, objects painted in cool colors seem father away than objects painted in warm colors. Lines that narrow from foreground to background make objects like roads and rivers seem to stretch into the distance. Using soft edges instead of sharply drawn lines, or leaving out details in background objects, makes the objects seem farther away. Painting objects smaller at the top of a painting makes them seem farther away than objects painted larger near the bottom.

Question 25

Point of view

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The position from which the viewer sees objects in a painting. Looking at the objects on a table while sitting in a chair drawn next to the table is one point of view. Looking at those same objects while standing across the room is another point of view.

Question 26

Pointillism

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A style of painting that developed late in the modern period of art history, in which the painting is composed of tiny dots, or point of color placed very close to one another on the canvas. The individual dots of color create a shimmering effect in the completed image.

Question 27

Portrait

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A painting of a person, usually one formally posed and looking outward from the painting. Paintings that feature more than one person are called group portraits.

Question 28

Primary colors

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Red, yellow, and blue, colors that cannot be made by putting other colors together.

Question 29

Rhythm

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Something that repeats, and creates a kind of pattern. Artists use elements like colors, lines, and shapes to create rhythms that create the mood of a painting, or that move our eyes to different parts of the painting.

Question 30

Rococo

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A decorative style of painting that developed in France near the end of the baroque period of art history. The subjects of rococo painting usually are wealthy people, often engaged in activities of recreation or amusement. The rococo style emphasizes curved lines and usually light colors, especially white, gold, silver, rose-pink, and sky-blue.

Question 31

Romanticism

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A style of painting that developed during the modern period of art history. Not all romantic artist painted alike or chose the same kinds of subjects for their art, but they all believed that painting should express emotions about man in the modern world. They valued trust and sincerity in art about classical harmony and conventional beauty. Romantic artists often pictured nature as wild and powerful, beyond man's ability to control. For others, the permanence of nature was an anchor for man in a world where everything else was changing rapidly.

Question 32

Seascape

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A type of landscape painting that features large expanses of water, usually the ocean or the sea, but occasionally a large lake.

Question 33

Secondary colors

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Green, purple, and orange, colors that can be created by combining primary colors.

Question 34

Still life

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A painting of objects that do not move. Most, but not all, still life's are close-up views of carefully arranged groups of objects, shown in an indoor setting, often on a table top.

Question 35

Symbol

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Something that stands for or suggest an idea. For example, a halo or the color blue might suggest holiness, flags might suggest patriotism, a pocket watch might suggest the passage of time.

Question 36

Texture

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The way an object feels on its surface when you touch it. Textures may be hard or soft, rough or smooth. Paintings themselves have smooth or rough textures, depending on how the artist applies the paint.

Question 37

Warm colors

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Colors such as red, yellow, orange, and others, that we associate with warm temperatures, like the orange glow of a sunset or the bright yellow flames of a fire.