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AP Art History Vocab
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1. Modeling with light and dark in a drawing to create depth and volume
Installation
Emblema
Chiaroscuro
Horror Vaqui
2. Pain mixed with hot wax - and applied to painting while still hot
Encaustic
Cella
Caryatid
Apse
3. LAte Renaissance movement in which mannerisms were used to evoke emotional expression
Mannerism
Mandorla
Emblema
Carolingian
4. French elements in Italian art. Focused on lavish fabric - intricate ornamentation - and brilliant color.
International Style
Apse
Modernism
Hypostyle Hall
5. 3 first letters in Greek spelling of Christ
Gouache
Dada
Chi-Rho-Iota
Altar Piece
6. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Modernism
Art Nouveau
Eucharist
Encaustic
7. Covered walkway outdoors in a cloister - or covered walkway indoors in a church following the apse.
Collage
Ambulatory
Kaaba
Daguerreotype
8. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Kachina Dolls
Futurism
Cartoon
Horror Vaqui
9. A greek chambre in the nave where a cult statue would stand. Most famous in the Parthenon
Dy Point
Cella
Archivolt
De Stijl
10. Uses land as a medium. Great scale - simple form.
Aisle
Baldacchino
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Encaustic
11. Early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre
Altar Piece
Daguerreotype
Acropolis
Cartoon
12. Concentric bands on arch of church
Altar Piece
Disegno
Archivolt
Collage
13. Medieval pages that are illuminated and decorative. Looks like cloth.
Action Painting
Art Nouveau
Cire Perdue
Carpet Page
14. Distorted image that must be viewed in a special way or angle to be correctly perceived
Caduceus
Cire Perdue
Eucharist
Anamorphic Image
15. Torso pointing in one direction and shoulders - arm -s or legs in another with weight unevenly distributed.
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Contraposto
Hypostyle Hall
Maesta
16. Space opens to sky in an ancient Roman house
Femmage
Chryselephantine
Atrium
Contraposto
17. Having to do with Charlamagne
Cubism
Carolingian
Campanile
Chi-Rho-Iota
18. Public building used for assembly. Evolved from Greek and Roman Tempe. Foundation of axial plane: entrance at short end with apse at eastern end.
Basilica
Baroque
Capital
Daguerreotype
19. Space between triglyphs in a Dporic frieze carved with a relief figure
Art Brut
Metope
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Hypostyle Hall
20. Central section of a mosaic
Emblema
Chimera
Archivolt
Art Nouveau
21. First major american avant hard movement. Art expressed state of mind to evoke emotional response from the viewer
Clerestory
Baroque
Abstract Expressionism
Jamb
22. Feminist college by Miriam Schaprio. Assembled fabrics associated with women - and using techniques often used by women.
Femmage
Carolingian
Abstract
Ambulatory
23. Term used by Jean Dubuffet to describe art that is untaught and brutish
Maesta
Jamb
Art Brut
Mandorla
24. Engraving in which image is cut into the plate NOT with a burin - but a steel pencil like tool .
Art Deco
Caryatid
Constructivism
Dy Point
25. Early 20th cent movement that rejected naturalistic deception of shapes and forms
Ambulatory
Aestetics
Cubism
Modernism
26. Led by Matisse --> color is the most important element in a painting - and it is held together by intense line and pattern
Horror Vaqui
Cubism
Campanile
Fauvism
27. Northern American dolls of the Soutwest representing the powers and spirits living in mountains and water sources
Expressionism
Cire Perdue
Chryselephantine
Kachina Dolls
28. Back to back columns with lions to indicated 4 directions
Groin Vault
Art Brut
Clerestory
Addorsed
29. Greek monster with head and body of a lion - trail of a serpant/dragon - and 2nd head of a goat from the butt
Metope
Expressionism
Chimera
Collage
30. Top of a columns shaft where it joints the lintel.
Collage
Disegno
Basilica
Capital
31. Site for baptism but separate from a church
Anamorphic Image
Cella
Baptistery
Installation
32. Right angle intersection of two barrel vaults
Clerestory
Dy Point
Kachina Dolls
Groin Vault
33. Movement that defined industrial design as art. Used decorative patterns that were elongated and symmetrical. Ex: Chrysler Building
Balustrade
Art Deco
Chiaroscuro
Cubism
34. Portion of church bordering the nave - but separated from nave by columns of piers
Aisle
Constructivism
Byzantine
Balustrade
35. American avant-garde movement of the 1960s that stressed the ideas of the artist rather than the final product
Cella
Dy Point
Conceptual Art
Modernism
36. Composition made by combing various materials
Burin
Grisaille
International Style
Collage
37. A sculptural medium made of ivory and gold. Known especially in the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Cartoon
Action Painting
Chryselephantine
Momento Mori
38. Plaster mixed with a binding material. Sometimes to prepare wood panels for altarpieces
Gigantomachy
Futurism
Gesso
Carpet Page
39. Painting applied with thick - heavy surfaces
Acropolis
Impasto
Chimera
Archivolt
40. Lost wax method of making a bronze statue
Fauvism
Installation
Disegno
Cire Perdue
41. Post-modernist art creating an environment in a room or gallery
Gouache
Installation
Cella
Earth Art/Environmental Art
42. Associated with E.Catholic Church
Byzantine
Abstract Expressionism
Capital
Chryselephantine
43. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Cella
Art Brut
Jamb
Aestetics
44. Pointed tool for incising an engraving plate
International Style
Burin
Campanile
Atrium
45. Semi-circular form at a short end of a basilica or eastern end of the nave
Balustrade
Apse
Apotheosis
Byzantine
46. Refrence to elevation in clouds and heaven - which includes angelic and historical figures
Apotheosis
Art Nouveau
Fauvism
Basilica
47. Symbol of death -usually a skull
Jamb
Cella
Constructivism
Momento Mori
48. Engraving on a metal plate covered in a protective wax. Incised parts are etched when surface is bathed in acid.
Etching
Eucharist
Atrium
Art Brut
49. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Cartoon
Art Deco
Acropolis
Impasto
50. Exterior masonry support opposing the lateral thrust of a vault.
Gesso
Butress
Gigantomachy
Grisaille