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Art Test 2
Test 2 words and Artists
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
10/19/2011

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Additive
Definition
Color mixing: adding red to green yields yellow; adding all three primary colors together yields white.
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Apse
Definition
Arch;Vault
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Aqueduct
Definition
Stone Arches
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Doric Order
Definition
Shaft, Capital, Architrave,Fieze, Cornice
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Ionic Order
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Base,Shape, Capital,Architrave,Frieze, Cornice
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Corinthian
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Base, Shaft, Capital,Architrave, Fieze, Cornice
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Armature
Definition
Framework around which the sculpture is built.
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Assemblage
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An artistic composition made from scraps, junk, and odds and ends (as of paper, cloth, wood, stone, or metal)
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Barrel Vault
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Or tunnel vault: The simplest form of a vault, consisting of a continuous surface of semicircular or pointed sections
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Camera Obscura
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is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. Upside Down on Wall
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Cantilever
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A beam anchored at only one end. The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and shear stress
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Cast/ casting
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Something formed by bring together material. Melting down
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Daguerreotype
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The first commercially successful photographic process
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Dome
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Is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere
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Fibers
Definition
is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread
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Flying buttress
Definition
specific form of buttressing most strongly associated with Gothic church architecture
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Font
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traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface
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Glass curtain
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an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, but merely keep out the weather
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Glaze
Definition
a thin shiny coating, or the act of applying the coating
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Graphic design
Definition
most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form
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Groin vault
Definition
produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults
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In the round
Definition
any theatre space in which the audience surrounds the stage area
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Installation
Definition
an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space
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Key stone
Definition
the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch
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Kiln
Definition
a thermally insulated chamber, or oven, in which a controlled temperature regime is produced.
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Kinetic
Definition
art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect
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Logo
Definition
A symbol or other small design adopted by an organization to identify its products, uniform, vehicles
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Lost wax
Definition
which a metal (such as silver, gold, brass or bronze) sculpture is cast from an artist's sculpture.
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Mobile
Definition
is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium
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Modeling
Definition
The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form.
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Montage
Definition
is a collection of whole or partial images, either static or as a film/video, usually of easily recogniable people, places or things
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Nave
Definition
the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church
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Open Form
Definition
A form whose contour is irregular or broken, having a sense of growth, change, or unresolved tension; form in a state of becoming.
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Closed Form
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A self-contained or explicitly limited form; having a resolved balance of tensions, a sense of calm completeness implying a totality within itself.
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Pediment
Definition
s a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure ...
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Post and lintel
Definition
Post and beam, is a simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a supporting beam
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Low Relief
Definition
or bas relief, a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut
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Serif/ san serif
Definition
serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols
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Site-specific
Definition
the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork
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Subtractive
Definition
yellow,magenta, cyan... Middle is black
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Tapestry
Definition
is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom, however it can also be woven on a floor loom as well.
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Throwing
Definition
Making a pot from a piece of clay on a potters wheel
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Transept
Definition
) Either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape, projecting at right angles from the nave.
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Typography
Definition
is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible
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Warp & weft
Definition
Type of weaving
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Ziggurat
Definition
Temples were originally built on platforms
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