Terms

Question 1

Line

Answer 1

Defines shapes and figures
Indicates motion, emotion, and other elements

Question 2

Shape/form

Answer 2

Property of a two-dimensional figure
Either geometric or organic

Question 3

Color

Answer 3

Sets moods and highlights important things

Question 4

Space

Answer 4

Can create three-dimensional illusions in a two-dimensional piece of art

Question 5

Texture

Answer 5

Either the feeling of actual objects or the illusion that a piece of art has a feeling

Question 6

Surface/depth

Answer 6

Shows depth or flatness

Question 7

Light/shadow

Answer 7

Reveal stories and create moods

Question 8

Balance

Answer 8

Even use of things throughout the artwork (ex. symmetry)

Question 9

Movement

Answer 9

Sense of motion in a static image

Question 10

Proportion

Answer 10

Relationship of parts of the body to one another

Question 11

Scale

Answer 11

Relationship of parts of an image to the image as a whole or something outside the image

Question 12

Pattern/repetition

Answer 12

When an image/object/motif is repeated throughout the piece

Question 13

Rhythm

Answer 13

A visual tempo set by repeating objects/elements

Question 14

Contrapposto

Answer 14

A Greek invention that portrayed the human body naturally, breaking symmetry and creating a life-like figure

Question 15

Foreshortening

Answer 15

A technique that compresses long objects to appear shorter, creating the illusion of depth, used to make art more naturalistic

Question 16

Chiaroscuro

Answer 16

The technique of transitioning between light and dark to give the illusion of volume and depth, used to make art more realisitic

Question 17

Linear perspective

Answer 17

The method of creating a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface

Question 18

Atmospheric perspective

Answer 18

The technique of painting distant objects with less clarity to mimic how we visually see the world. It captures the visual phenomena instead of the object itself. The farther the object, the lighter it is

Question 19

Doric Order

Answer 19

-Represents an important moment in Mediterranean architecture when monumental construction made the transition from impermanent materials
-Consists of plain, unadorned column capitals and a base-less column.
-Composed of triglyphs and metopes

Question 20

Ionic Order

Answer 20

-Volutes!
-Base supporting the column
-Slender and elegant (like a man’s body)
-Running frieze of continuous sculptural relief

Question 21

Corinthian Order

Answer 21

-Elaborately carved capital
-Vegetal motifs

Question 22

Triglyph

Answer 22

Vertical “tablets” in the Doric frieze

Question 23

Metope

Answer 23

Rectangular space between triglyphs

Question 24

Pediment

Answer 24

Triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical architecture

Question 25

Naturalism

Answer 25

Resemblance to real world as we see it

Question 26

Verism

Answer 26

Portraying heroes/mythological figures as everyday people

Question 27

Representational

Answer 27

Represents something/someone

Question 28

Stylization

Answer 28

Designed according to the principles of a particular style rather than being beholden to the way things look in “the real world.”

Question 29

Non-representational

Answer 29

Little to no reference to the natural world

Question 30

Idealization

Answer 30

Looks human but represents ideals (not natural)

Question 31

Portrait

Answer 31

A representation of an individual by an individual, either themselves or another artist, whose purpose is to foreground that individual as an individual with a unique personality

Question 32

Egyptian portraits

Answer 32

Generic idea about status/relationship
Mathematic proportions

Question 33

Hiearchy of Scale

Answer 33

The largest thing is most often the most important

Question 34

Realism

Answer 34

How something actually would’ve looked, without perfect symmetry or anatomy or anything

Question 35

Registers

Answer 35

Horizontal bands of decoration

Question 36

Twisted perspective

Answer 36

Things are twisted so you can see all the defining features

Question 37

Apotropaic

Answer 37

Wards off evil

Question 38

Sunken relief

Answer 38

Carved into something

Question 39

High relief

Answer 39

Image sticks out far from background

Question 40

Low relief

Answer 40

Image sticks out very little from background

Question 41

Sculpture in the round

Answer 41

A sculpture entirely out of its original material

Question 42

Formline

Answer 42

Specific style in the Pacific Northwest that’s defined by oval and “u” shapes

Question 43

Clerestory

Answer 43

Upper part of the nave of a church that contains a lot of windows

Question 44

Portico

Answer 44

Porch that leads to the entrance of a building

Question 45

Flying buttress

Answer 45

Extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass to distribute weight more evenly and allow for taller buildings

Question 46

Apse

Answer 46

Semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome (exedra)

Question 47

Narthex

Answer 47

An enclosed porch or meeting area just inside the Western entrance of a Christian church