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Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Manuport

A

something carried by hand from one place to another

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Archaic smile

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strange “smile” in ancient Greek art

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Contrapposto

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counterweight/counterbalance; shifting of weight

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Mosaic

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art made from different pieces of stone or glass put in a matrix to form an image

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5
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Registers

A

levels/horizontal lines that separate images in art

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Hieratic scale

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people’s sizes are relative to their importance

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Renaissance

A

rebirth of interest in classical antiquity

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Portrait

A

a likeness of a specific person

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Chiaroscuro

A

modeling of forms in light and shade

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Perspective

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show distance

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Fresco

A

painting made on wet plaster so the paint adheres to the wall

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Tempera

A

egg-based paint

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Sfumato

A

smokiness (like the atmosphere in Da Vinci’s paintings)

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Genres

A

subjects in arts

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Portraitures

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the genre of portraits

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Landscapes

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the genre of outdoor scenes

17
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History Painting

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the genre of scenes in history; usually large scale with a lofty narrative

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Still Life

A

the genre of paintings of inanimate objects

19
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Genre (genre)

A

the genre of scenes of ordinary people doing ordinary things

20
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Composite pose

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figural pose in which the figure is facing multiple directions (Egyptian)

21
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Baroque

A

art of the 17th century (misshapen pearl)

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Tenebrism

A

darkness

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Cubism

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early 20th-century movement led by Pablo Picasso that eliminates perspective and chiaroscuro

24
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Regionalism

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American early-middle 20th-century movement that depicts American life

25
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Abstract expressionism

A

scenes that are not natural or realistic

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Action painting

A

something depicted in motion

27
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Pop art

A

art of the ordinary-popular culture

28
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Diptych

A

two-paneled work of art

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Triptych

A

three-paneled work of art

30
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Polyptych

A

many-paneled work of art

31
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Foreshortening

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technique used in perspective to create the illusion of an object receding strongly into the distance or background; created by the object appearing shorter than it is in reality, making it seem compressed

32
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Relief

A

carving that is still attached to the support which serves as a background

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