Starter Kit- Art A Breif History Flashcards
What are all the qualities known as?
Formal elements.
The term FORM encompasses what 9 qualities?
Line Shape Colors Light Texture Space Mass Volume
What is the definition of a Heel Stone?
It is a singe large block of Sarsen stone standing within the avenue outside the entrance of Stonehenge.
What does the word Henge mean?
It refers to a particular type of earthwork of the Neolithic period. Typically consisting of roughly circular or oval shaped bank with an intern ditch surrounding it. For example, Stonehenge.
What is a hunter gather?
They’re a member of a nomadic people who live by hunting, fishing and harvesting wild food.
What is megalithic
A prehistoric monument made of or containing megaliths.
What is a nomadic human?
Nomadic means anything that involves moving a lot. Hunter and gatherers were nomadic because they never settled in one area.
What is the Neolithic period?
The later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
What is the Paleolithic period
An early phase of the Stone Age, lasted 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
What is lintel?
A horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.
What is Sarsen?
A silicified sandstone Boulder of a kind that occurs in the chalk downs of southern England. They were used to construct Stonehenge.
What is sympathetic magic?
Primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought.
What is a Trilithon?
A structure consuming of two large vertical stones, supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top.
