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AP Art History Vocab
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1. Medieval pages that are illuminated and decorative. Looks like cloth.
Installation
Action Painting
Impressionism
Carpet Page
2. Composition made by combing various materials
Contraposto
Collage
Expressionism
Cire Perdue
3. Pointed tool for incising an engraving plate
Cartoon
Burin
Fresco
Kaaba
4. Engraving in which image is cut into the plate NOT with a burin - but a steel pencil like tool .
Kaaba
Dy Point
Atrium
Campanile
5. Central section of a mosaic
Clerestory
Hiberno-Saxon
Emblema
Hard Edge Painting
6. Alomd shaped glory surrounding christ figure on tympanum.
Caryatid
Mandorla
Abstract Expressionism
Altar Piece
7. Site for baptism but separate from a church
Impressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Apse
Baptistery
8. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Daguerreotype
Installation
Campanile
Cire Perdue
9. Led by Matisse --> color is the most important element in a painting - and it is held together by intense line and pattern
Burin
Metope
Fauvism
Chiaroscuro
10. Feminist college by Miriam Schaprio. Assembled fabrics associated with women - and using techniques often used by women.
Altar Piece
Femmage
Ambulatory
Burin
11. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Emblema
Constructivism
Abstract
Modernism
12. American art movement of 1960s. Predominantly sculptural - with a focus in a reduction to homogeneous forms.
Femmage
Caryatid
Carolingian
Minimalism
13. Side posts of a doorway
Daguerreotype
Byzantine
Jamb
Fresco
14. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Expressionism
Gesso
Aestetics
Art Nouveau
15. Row of vase shape columns with a railing on top - a decorative fence
De Stijl
Balustrade
Chiton
Dy Point
16. The wine and wafer that symbolize the last supper - literally or figuratively
Eucharist
Caryatid
Carpet Page
Conceptual Art
17. Area of a church rising above other parts. Along the nave in churches and right below the ceiling
Clerestory
Hard Edge Painting
Maesta
Constructivism
18. Concentric bands on arch of church
Impressionism
Archivolt
Apse
Eucharist
19. Full sized preliminary sketch for a painting
Concrete
Cartoon
Chryselephantine
Carpet Page
20. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Gigantomachy
Baldacchino
Archivolt
Acropolis
21. Early 20th cent movement that rejected naturalistic deception of shapes and forms
Dada
Cubism
Dy Point
Emblema
22. Post-modernist art creating an environment in a room or gallery
Canon
Installation
Abstract
Collage
23. French elements in Italian art. Focused on lavish fabric - intricate ornamentation - and brilliant color.
Gesso
Fauvism
Acropolis
International Style
24. Painting technique using pigments ground in water
Gouache
Art Deco
Kaaba
Aisle
25. Uses land as a medium. Great scale - simple form.
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Abstract Expressionism
Aisle
Collage
26. Public building used for assembly. Evolved from Greek and Roman Tempe. Foundation of axial plane: entrance at short end with apse at eastern end.
Entasis
Contraposto
Basilica
Daguerreotype
27. Art emphasizing derived character with visual reference to objects in nature.
Art Brut
Clerestory
Abstract
Collage
28. Canopy on Columns. Most often seen over an altar - st.Peters
Apotheosis
Baldacchino
Chimera
Basilica
29. Greek monster with head and body of a lion - trail of a serpant/dragon - and 2nd head of a goat from the butt
Caryatid
Chi-Rho-Iota
Apotheosis
Chimera
30. Swelling of shaft to adjust for optical allusion
Entasis
Acropolis
Groin Vault
Momento Mori
31. Late 19th cent movement that focused on synthesis of all arts in creation of natural forms that could be mass produced
Dy Point
Art Nouveau
Mannerism
Hiberno-Saxon
32. Rod in Greek mythology intertwined with serpents and magical powers. Most commonly associated with Hermes and medical symbolism
Disegno
Caduceus
Femmage
Butress
33. Movement dominated by Naum Gabo. Building structures piece by piece rather than by modeling. Using volume of space and mass
Art Nouveau
De Stijl
Constructivism
Carolingian
34. 20th century modernist movement that focused on artists personal vision and its emotional impact
Expressionism
Anamorphic Image
Hard Edge Painting
Futurism
35. Symbol of death -usually a skull
Butress
Momento Mori
Cella
Emblema
36. Rule applied to proportion
Canon
Clerestory
Baroque
Art Brut
37. Having to do with Charlamagne
Carolingian
International Style
Gigantomachy
Femmage
38. Plaster mixed with a binding material. Sometimes to prepare wood panels for altarpieces
Burin
Action Painting
Gesso
Basilica
39. Modeling with light and dark in a drawing to create depth and volume
Chiaroscuro
Abstract Expressionism
Atrium
Mannerism
40. Space opens to sky in an ancient Roman house
Cella
Atrium
Campanile
Clerestory
41. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Cella
Basilica
Horror Vaqui
Addorsed
42. Engraving on a metal plate covered in a protective wax. Incised parts are etched when surface is bathed in acid.
Etching
Balustrade
Disegno
Baldacchino
43. Clothing of men and women in greece. Tunic-like
Art Deco
Apotheosis
Art Brut
Chiton
44. American avant-garde movement of the 1960s that stressed the ideas of the artist rather than the final product
Cella
Minimalism
Basilica
Conceptual Art
45. Back to back columns with lions to indicated 4 directions
Canon
Kachina Dolls
Addorsed
Grisaille
46. 3 first letters in Greek spelling of Christ
Emblema
Groin Vault
Canon
Chi-Rho-Iota
47. Painting on plaster
Metope
Fresco
Aisle
Campanile
48. Art movement that focused on idealistic - utopian and geometric forms
De Stijl
Groin Vault
Modernism
Metope
49. Grays and monochrome used to shade a painting. Most frequently in outer sides of altarpieces
Grisaille
Daguerreotype
Action Painting
Kachina Dolls
50. Pain mixed with hot wax - and applied to painting while still hot
Encaustic
Gouache
Action Painting
De Stijl