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Vocab for Midterm
Vocab from A World of Art by Sayre ch. 1-8
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/12/2010

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Installation art
Definition
an “environment” indoors, usually sculpture with multiples
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Environment
Definition
sculptural space large enough for the viewer to move around in
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Subject matter
Definition
literal, visible image
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Iconoclasts
Definition
“image breakers” wanting to destroy images in religious settings because of the commandment of not making graven images
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Abstract
Definition
work that does not represent real things in the real world
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Non-representational
Definition
work that does not refer to the natural world
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Realism
Definition
work that resembles what the eye sees
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Form
Definition
overall structures of a work
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Content
Definition
meaning of an image beyond its subject matter, What the work expresses or means
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Iconography
Definition
study or description of images and symbols
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Impressionism
Definition
painting movement characterized by the use of discontinuous strokes of color to reproduce the effects of light
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Line
Definition
fundamental element, they posses direction, can connect or divide
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Futurism
Definition
art movement that depicts movement and speed of modern industrial life
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Grid
Definition
pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that cross each other to make uniform squares
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Shape
Definition
flat 2-D area, can be measured in height and width
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Mass
Definition
any solid that occupies a three dimensional volume
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One-point linear perspective
Definition
where there is only one vanishing point in the composition
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Two-point linear perspective
Definition
two or more vanishing points in the composition
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Foreshortening
Definition
the closer extremities are adjusted to make up for the distortion created by the point of view, makes objects more natural and less disorienting
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Vanishing point
Definition
in linear perspective the point on the horizon line where lines appear to converge
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Vantage point
Definition
in linear perspective the point where the viewer is positioned
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Cross hatching
Definition
the use of perpendicular lines to create shadow
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Hatching
Definition
closely spaced parallel lines
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Value
Definition
relative lightness or darkness of an object or area
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Tint
Definition
color modified by the addition of another resulting in a hue of lighter value
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Hue
Definition
a color, as found on the color wheel
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Shade
Definition
color modified by the addition of another color resulting in a hue of a darker value
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Spectrum
Definition
colored bands of visible light created when sunlight passes through a prism (rainbow)
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Primary colors
Definition
red, blue, yellow which are combined to make secondary and tertiary colors
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Secondary colors
Definition
hues created by combing two primary colors, orange (red and yellow), violet (red & blue) and green (yellow & blue)
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Tertiary colors
Definition
the resulting color of mixing a primary and secondary color
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Intensity
Definition
purity of a colors’ hue & its relative brightness or dullness also known as saturation
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Analogous colors
Definition
pairs of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
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Complementary colors
Definition
pairs of colors opposite each other on the color wheel
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Medium
Definition
any material used to make a work of art. In painting a liquid added to paint that makes it easier to manipulate
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Pointillism
Definition
the use of dots in a composition
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Polychromatic
Definition
multicolor
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Texture
Definition
- Surface quality
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Pattern
Definition
- repetitive design
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Kinetic
Definition
- art that moves
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Impasto
Definition
- thickly applied paint
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Op art
Definition
- art style in which color and line are manipulated to stimulate the eye into believing it perceives movement
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Frottage
Definition
- to rub, placing a piece of paper over a textured surface then rubbing with a mark-making tool
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Balance
Definition
- even distribution of weight in a composition
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Visual weight
Definition
- the apparent lightness or heaviness of the shapes and forms arranged in a composition
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Found object
Definition
- an existing object given a new identity as an art work or part of an artwork
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Focal point
Definition
- the center of visual attention often different form the physical center of the work
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[image]
Definition

Arnolfini Wedding Portrait

Eyck

1434

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[image]
Definition

Guernica

Picasso

1937

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[image]
Definition

Study of the Virgin, St. Ann, the Christ Child, & St. John the Baptist

DaVinci

15th Cent

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