Vocabulary

Question 1

Manuport

Answer 1

something carried by hand from one place to another

Question 2

Archaic smile

Answer 2

strange “smile” in ancient Greek art

Question 3

Contrapposto

Answer 3

counterweight/counterbalance; shifting of weight

Question 4

Mosaic

Answer 4

art made from different pieces of stone or glass put in a matrix to form an image

Question 5

Registers

Answer 5

levels/horizontal lines that separate images in art

Question 6

Hieratic scale

Answer 6

people’s sizes are relative to their importance

Question 7

Renaissance

Answer 7

rebirth of interest in classical antiquity

Question 8

Portrait

Answer 8

a likeness of a specific person

Question 9

Chiaroscuro

Answer 9

modeling of forms in light and shade

Question 10

Perspective

Answer 10

show distance

Question 11

Fresco

Answer 11

painting made on wet plaster so the paint adheres to the wall

Question 12

Tempera

Answer 12

egg-based paint

Question 13

Sfumato

Answer 13

smokiness (like the atmosphere in Da Vinci’s paintings)

Question 14

Genres

Answer 14

subjects in arts

Question 15

Portraitures

Answer 15

the genre of portraits

Question 16

Landscapes

Answer 16

the genre of outdoor scenes

Question 17

History Painting

Answer 17

the genre of scenes in history; usually large scale with a lofty narrative

Question 18

Still Life

Answer 18

the genre of paintings of inanimate objects

Question 19

Genre (genre)

Answer 19

the genre of scenes of ordinary people doing ordinary things

Question 20

Composite pose

Answer 20

figural pose in which the figure is facing multiple directions (Egyptian)

Question 21

Baroque

Answer 21

art of the 17th century (misshapen pearl)

Question 22

Tenebrism

Answer 22

darkness

Question 23

Cubism

Answer 23

early 20th-century movement led by Pablo Picasso that eliminates perspective and chiaroscuro

Question 24

Regionalism

Answer 24

American early-middle 20th-century movement that depicts American life

Question 25

Abstract expressionism

Answer 25

scenes that are not natural or realistic

Question 26

Action painting

Answer 26

something depicted in motion

Question 27

Pop art

Answer 27

art of the ordinary-popular culture

Question 28

Diptych

Answer 28

two-paneled work of art

Question 29

Triptych

Answer 29

three-paneled work of art

Question 30

Polyptych

Answer 30

many-paneled work of art

Question 31

Foreshortening

Answer 31

technique used in perspective to create the illusion of an object receding strongly into the distance or background; created by the object appearing shorter than it is in reality, making it seem compressed

Question 32

Relief

Answer 32

carving that is still attached to the support which serves as a background