Art History Vocab Terms

Question 1

Pareidolon

Answer 1

Anytime you see a figure in an accidental pattern, like seeing the face in the rock

Question 2

Composite view

Answer 2

The head in profile but the feet or legs straight on, so more than one perspective
(Chuavet cave and Laumassu)

Question 3

Relief

Answer 3

High, Low, Sunken or Raised. When the work is still connected to the wall

Question 4

Archaic style

Answer 4

Stiff, taken from Egypt style, slight smile and arms are to their side

Question 5

Classical style

Answer 5

400BCE Arms leave the side, idealism comes around, Polyklietos cannon when Persians destroy Athena Acropolis
Contropassto

Question 6

Hellenistic style

Answer 6

330-30 BCE Dramatic, fluid verism and naturalistic. Breaking rules, and obsessed with humanism

Question 7

Cycladic art

Answer 7

Prehistoric Aegean art Nude women very blocky, men seated and playing instruments
Either made of the deceased or of a goddess

Question 9

Minoan art

Answer 9

Art of Crete, large palaces with portrait paintings
Bull leaping from palace is Minoan

Question 10

Helladic art

Answer 10

Art of the greek mainland Hellas in Greek

Question 11

Aqueduct

Answer 11

This was used on the top of Ziggurats and the hanging gardens to keep plants alive

Question 12

Polychrome

Answer 12

All the artwork like the sphinx would’ve been in color

Question 13

Ensoulment

Answer 13

This is the idea that the soul is in an image, this is why they would raw the bill over the part of the rock that already looked like it followed the shape of a bull

Question 14

Embodiment

Answer 14

Taking the actual thing, like Jericho skulls, and taxidermy. It represents the thing using the actual thing

Question 15

Apotropaic

Answer 15

Wards off evil using the thing that is evil itself, like carving an alligator in to a totem, or gargoyles on a cathedral