E lettered words

Question 1

Earthenware

Answer 1

Pottery made of clay that is fired at low temperatures and is slightly porous.

Question 2

Earthworks

Answer 2

A large outdoor work in which the Earth itself is the medium.

Question 3

Edo

Answer 3

An ethnic group of southern Nigeria.

Question 4

Effigy Mound

Answer 4

A mound representing a figure or an animal very shallow relief sculpture.

Question 5

Egyptian Canon

Answer 5

A set of guidelines, to give order to their art. This system was based on a grid of 19 squares high (including one square from the hairline to the top of the head, usually hidden under a crown).

Question 6

Elements of Art

Answer 6

The basic vocabulary of art-line, form, shape, volume, mass, color, texture space, time, and motion, and value (lightness/darkness).

Question 7

Elevation

Answer 7

Scale drawing of the facade, side, or back of a structure.

Question 8

Embroidery

Answer 8

A woven product in which the design is stiched into a pre-made fabric.

Question 9

Emphasis

Answer 9

The principle of drawing attention to particular content within a work.

Question 10

Encaustic

Answer 10

An ancient method of painting colored waxes that are burned into a wooden surface.

Question 11

Engaged Column

Answer 11

that is not freestanding but attached to a wall.

Question 12

Engraving

Answer 12

A printmaking process in which a tool called a burin is used to carve into a metal plate, causing impressions to be made in the surface. Ink is pressed into the crevices of the plate and paper is applied. The result is a print with remarkable details and finely shaded contours.

Question 13

Enlightenment

Answer 13

A philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by a solical rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism.

Question 14

Enconchados

Answer 14

Shell inlay paintings; tiny fragments of mother of pearl placed onto a wooden support and canvas and covered with a yellowish tint and thin glazes of paint.

Question 15

Entasis

Answer 15

A column that deliberately bulges.

Question 16

Entombment

Answer 16

A painting or sculpture depicting Jesus Christ’s burial after his crucifixion.

Question 17

Environmental Art

Answer 17

An American art form that emerged in the 1960s. Often using the land itself as their material, Environmental artists construct monuments of great scale and minimal form. Permanent or impermanent, these works transform some section of the environment, calling attention both to the land itself and to the hand of the artist. Sometimes referred to as earthworks.

Question 18

Escudo

Answer 18

A framed painting worn below the neck in colonial Spanish painting.

Question 19

Etching

Answer 19

A printmaking process in which a metal plate is covered with a ground of wax. The artist uses a tool to cut into the wax and leave the plate exposed. The plate is then submerged into an acid bath, which eats away at the exposed portion of the plate. The plate is removed from the acid, cleaned and ink is filled into the crevices caused by the acid. Paper is applied and an impression is made. Etching produces the finest detail of the three types of early prints.

Question 20

Eucharist

Answer 20

The bread sanctified by the priest at the Christian ceremony commemorating the Last Supper.

Question 21

Expressionism