Exam #1 Terms

Question 1

Composition

Answer 1

the way the painting is organized or laid out

ex. all over composition vs. weighted composition

Question 2

symmetry

Answer 2

balance in a painting

Question 3

scale

Answer 3

size of an artwork

Question 4

medium

Answer 4

what materials are used / what the painting is made out of

Question 5

fresco

Answer 5

pigment mixed with wet plaster

Question 6

encaustic

Answer 6

melted wax to build up texture and color

Question 7

intaglio

Answer 7

etching or carving with wood plates and mezzotint rocker process

Question 8

repousse

Answer 8

hammered into brass to make a mold

Question 9

assemblage

Answer 9

collage, mixed media: making you think about fantastical ideas with realistic grounding

Question 10

iconography

Answer 10

what is on the canvas at that point in time, what you actually see

Question 11

painterly

Answer 11

blended, paint strokes, Indistinct and soft

how color works with color

Question 12

low relief sculpture

Answer 12

carves the background out so it slightly comes out into space

Question 13

sunken relief

Answer 13

etching - has texture but does not come into space

Question 14

high relief

Answer 14

projects into space the most - more delicate but not freestanding

Question 15

contrapposto

Answer 15

how weight is distributed naturally on a body

Question 16

volume

Answer 16

how much is going on

Question 17

mass

Answer 17

how “heavy” does it feel- how compact everything is

Question 18

horror vacui

Answer 18

fear of empty space (Romans)

Question 19

texture

Answer 19

the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface

Question 20

chiaroscuro

Answer 20

the way light and dark an create shape

Question 21

1 point perspective

Answer 21

1 vanishing point

Question 22

2 point perspective

Answer 22

2 vanishing points

Question 23

atmospheric perspective

Answer 23

blend paint to force perspective

Question 24

foreshortening

Answer 24

things that are closer to you appear bigger

Question 25

pastoral

Answer 25

peaceful, calm, weightless

Question 26

picturesque

Answer 26

natural beauty nearly perfect

Question 27

sublime

Answer 27

being in awe at the power of nature and feeling very small being human

Question 28

sfumato

Answer 28

using hazy color to give a sense of depth

a glaze that softens edges

Question 29

trompe l’oeil

Answer 29

fool the eye - realistic

Question 30

tondo

Answer 30

round painting

Question 31

tenebrism

Answer 31

a nearly velvety blackness punctuated by bright points of light

Question 32

barrel vault

Answer 32

rounded arches

Romanesque

Question 33

groin vault

Answer 33

two barrel vaults crossed at right angles

Question 34

rib vault

Answer 34

pointed arches

Question 35

flying buttress

Answer 35

a pier with a supporting “limb” that helps hold up walls and arches

Question 36

apse

Answer 36

the curved section at the end of a church

Question 37

nave

Answer 37

rectangular open center space

Question 38

clerestory

Answer 38

upward extension of nave