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AP Art History Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Uses land as a medium. Great scale - simple form.
Cire Perdue
Etching
Cartoon
Earth Art/Environmental Art
2. Torso pointing in one direction and shoulders - arm -s or legs in another with weight unevenly distributed.
Contraposto
Art Nouveau
Entasis
Burin
3. Feminist college by Miriam Schaprio. Assembled fabrics associated with women - and using techniques often used by women.
Addorsed
Apse
Femmage
Fresco
4. Associated with E.Catholic Church
Atrium
Ambulatory
Byzantine
Modernism
5. Top of a columns shaft where it joints the lintel.
Art Deco
Capital
Femmage
Dy Point
6. Plaster mixed with a binding material. Sometimes to prepare wood panels for altarpieces
Capital
Gesso
Fresco
International Style
7. Clothing of men and women in greece. Tunic-like
Eucharist
Chiton
Butress
Kaaba
8. 20th century modernist movement that focused on artists personal vision and its emotional impact
Expressionism
Campanile
Daguerreotype
Dy Point
9. Female figure used as structural column
Conceptual Art
Caryatid
Collage
Canon
10. Central section of a mosaic
De Stijl
Emblema
Grisaille
Femmage
11. Canopy on Columns. Most often seen over an altar - st.Peters
Addorsed
Impressionism
Ambulatory
Baldacchino
12. Back to back columns with lions to indicated 4 directions
Addorsed
Impasto
Chryselephantine
Acropolis
13. Early 20th cent movement of artists who advocated revolution against all forms of traditional values and styles.
Futurism
Byzantine
Gouache
Concrete
14. Space opens to sky in an ancient Roman house
Jamb
Groin Vault
Atrium
Chi-Rho-Iota
15. Late 19th cent movement attempting to capture fleeting moment of nature
Horror Vaqui
Altar Piece
Gesso
Impressionism
16. Public building used for assembly. Evolved from Greek and Roman Tempe. Foundation of axial plane: entrance at short end with apse at eastern end.
Art Nouveau
Dy Point
Abstract
Basilica
17. A panel located above or behind the altar. Has a predella which is a shelf like base
Altar Piece
Impressionism
Art Nouveau
Anamorphic Image
18. First major american avant hard movement. Art expressed state of mind to evoke emotional response from the viewer
Hypostyle Hall
Abstract Expressionism
Metope
Fresco
19. Movement dominated by Naum Gabo. Building structures piece by piece rather than by modeling. Using volume of space and mass
Gigantomachy
Constructivism
Modernism
Impressionism
20. Having to do with Charlamagne
Baldacchino
Eucharist
Carolingian
Maesta
21. 3 first letters in Greek spelling of Christ
Chryselephantine
Dada
Chi-Rho-Iota
Mandorla
22. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Maesta
Mannerism
Campanile
Hypostyle Hall
23. Lost wax method of making a bronze statue
Metope
Cire Perdue
Cella
Collage
24. Engraving on a metal plate covered in a protective wax. Incised parts are etched when surface is bathed in acid.
Archivolt
Etching
Clerestory
Hypostyle Hall
25. Movement that defined industrial design as art. Used decorative patterns that were elongated and symmetrical. Ex: Chrysler Building
Acropolis
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Art Deco
Mannerism
26. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Modernism
Chi-Rho-Iota
Cire Perdue
Mannerism
27. Composition made by combing various materials
Collage
International Style
De Stijl
Hiberno-Saxon
28. Space between triglyphs in a Dporic frieze carved with a relief figure
Aestetics
Metope
Constructivism
Burin
29. Name of an image that depicts an anthroned virgin mary and baby jesus
Butress
Maesta
International Style
Caduceus
30. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Hypostyle Hall
Chi-Rho-Iota
Cubism
Horror Vaqui
31. Right angle intersection of two barrel vaults
Conceptual Art
Modernism
Groin Vault
Minimalism
32. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Encaustic
Campanile
Aestetics
Concrete
33. Art movement that focused on idealistic - utopian and geometric forms
Acropolis
Kachina Dolls
De Stijl
Abstract Expressionism
34. Alomd shaped glory surrounding christ figure on tympanum.
Encaustic
Mandorla
Dada
Kaaba
35. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Mannerism
Groin Vault
Acropolis
Concrete
36. Pain mixed with hot wax - and applied to painting while still hot
Encaustic
Baptistery
Ambulatory
Action Painting
37. American avant-garde movement of the 1960s that stressed the ideas of the artist rather than the final product
Constructivism
Kaaba
Hard Edge Painting
Conceptual Art
38. Painting on plaster
Fresco
Dy Point
Kachina Dolls
Anamorphic Image
39. Art movement in response to nihilism and horror of WWI. Rejection of art and civilizations that produced it in favor of the absurd
Atrium
Hard Edge Painting
Dada
Emblema
40. French elements in Italian art. Focused on lavish fabric - intricate ornamentation - and brilliant color.
Abstract Expressionism
Clerestory
International Style
Hypostyle Hall
41. American art movement of 1960s. Predominantly sculptural - with a focus in a reduction to homogeneous forms.
Constructivism
Minimalism
Dy Point
Cartoon
42. Medieval pages that are illuminated and decorative. Looks like cloth.
Butress
Carpet Page
Modernism
Etching
43. Portion of church bordering the nave - but separated from nave by columns of piers
Balustrade
Eucharist
Ambulatory
Aisle
44. Late 19th cent movement that focused on synthesis of all arts in creation of natural forms that could be mass produced
Butress
Concrete
Art Nouveau
Burin
45. Refrence to elevation in clouds and heaven - which includes angelic and historical figures
Apotheosis
Gigantomachy
Chi-Rho-Iota
Mandorla
46. LAte Renaissance movement in which mannerisms were used to evoke emotional expression
Mannerism
Momento Mori
Altar Piece
Concrete
47. Greek monster with head and body of a lion - trail of a serpant/dragon - and 2nd head of a goat from the butt
Carolingian
Chimera
Ambulatory
Emblema
48. Building material devised by ancient romans. Made of lime - volcanic sand - and gravel
Emblema
Installation
Concrete
Campanile
49. Concentric bands on arch of church
Chryselephantine
Art Deco
Archivolt
Acropolis
50. Early 20th cent movement that rejected naturalistic deception of shapes and forms
Cubism
Art Brut
Femmage
Entasis