Test 2 Flashcards
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Transfer from a surface to paper, surface usually destroyed
Albrech Durer- “The Four Horsemen”
Printmaking
The illusion of distance or depth
Perspective
Pigments added to wet plaster, fries and makes the paint part of the walls
Fresco
Basic building block
Line
Balancing of forms and colors
Symmetry
Uses a vanishing pint aka foreshortening
Linear perspective
A work attached to a background, 2D quality, whole scenes, one angle, outside of buildings
Relief Sculpture
No separation between artistic and functional qualities, but a balance
The art of sheltering as well as the design of 3D space to create a practical enclosure
Architecture
Ability to resist gravity
Tensile strength
Cantilever
Overhang
Bearing wall
Supports itself
Skyscrapers, steel framework and rooms and exterior fits over it like a skin
Skeleton frame
Facade
Fake front of a building
Size relative to human form
Scale
The environment of a building
Context
The design relative to function
Space
Violent distortion of form, color, and proportion
Fauvism
Discards all concepts of perspective, doesn’t show and object, but it’s space
Multiple points of view
Cubism
Tried to regain an audience following while maintains artistic innovation, , freedom from the traditional use of the brushstroke
Abstract expressionism
- confluence of line
- encirclement
- color
3 types of focal points
- full round
- linear
- relief
3 types of sculpture genres
- iconic
- Doric
- Corinthian and Roman
3 types of posts
- 2D quality
- static
- no perspective
- no background
Qualities of Classical Vases
- massive, static buildings
- floor plan in shape of cross
- emphasis on fresco
- wooden structures
Qualities of Romanesque Architecture
