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AP Art History Vocab
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1. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Aestetics
Aisle
Installation
Butress
2. Space opens to sky in an ancient Roman house
Atrium
Dada
Chryselephantine
International Style
3. A sculptural medium made of ivory and gold. Known especially in the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Chryselephantine
Constructivism
Chi-Rho-Iota
Emblema
4. 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
Ambulatory
Basilica
Acropolis
5. Building material devised by ancient romans. Made of lime - volcanic sand - and gravel
Cartoon
Concrete
Grisaille
Capital
6. Pointed tool for incising an engraving plate
Burin
Aestetics
Canon
Grisaille
7. Area of a church rising above other parts. Along the nave in churches and right below the ceiling
Clerestory
Altar Piece
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Installation
8. Engraving in which image is cut into the plate NOT with a burin - but a steel pencil like tool .
Dy Point
Aestetics
Archivolt
Installation
9. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Basilica
Aisle
Encaustic
Acropolis
10. Art movement in response to nihilism and horror of WWI. Rejection of art and civilizations that produced it in favor of the absurd
Anamorphic Image
Futurism
Dada
Art Deco
11. First major american avant hard movement. Art expressed state of mind to evoke emotional response from the viewer
Baldacchino
Apotheosis
Abstract Expressionism
Eucharist
12. Exterior masonry support opposing the lateral thrust of a vault.
Atrium
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Baroque
Butress
13. Painting technique using pigments ground in water
Carolingian
Gouache
Kachina Dolls
Basilica
14. 20th century modernist movement that focused on artists personal vision and its emotional impact
Hypostyle Hall
International Style
Balustrade
Expressionism
15. Rod in Greek mythology intertwined with serpents and magical powers. Most commonly associated with Hermes and medical symbolism
Mandorla
Caduceus
Mannerism
Femmage
16. Painting applied with thick - heavy surfaces
Impasto
Ambulatory
Canon
Baptistery
17. Alomd shaped glory surrounding christ figure on tympanum.
Collage
Chiton
Cubism
Mandorla
18. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Chimera
Horror Vaqui
Encaustic
Basilica
19. Elaborate - flowery - grandoise art and architecture. Associated with rococo design --> elegant furniture - ornamental mirrors - and extravagant detail.
Femmage
Baroque
Chiton
Etching
20. Clothing of men and women in greece. Tunic-like
Dada
Chiton
Momento Mori
Balustrade
21. Lost wax method of making a bronze statue
Chi-Rho-Iota
Cire Perdue
Grisaille
Ambulatory
22. Composition made by combing various materials
Chiaroscuro
Contraposto
Collage
Basilica
23. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Modernism
Campanile
Archivolt
Hiberno-Saxon
24. Movement that defined industrial design as art. Used decorative patterns that were elongated and symmetrical. Ex: Chrysler Building
Action Painting
Disegno
Art Brut
Art Deco
25. Associated with E.Catholic Church
Byzantine
Anamorphic Image
International Style
Caryatid
26. Term used by Jean Dubuffet to describe art that is untaught and brutish
Art Brut
Action Painting
Hard Edge Painting
Mandorla
27. Early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre
Cubism
Chiton
Caryatid
Daguerreotype
28. Symbol of death -usually a skull
Caduceus
Baldacchino
Momento Mori
Art Brut
29. Rule applied to proportion
Entasis
Canon
Abstract
Anamorphic Image
30. 3 first letters in Greek spelling of Christ
Mannerism
Chi-Rho-Iota
Groin Vault
Carpet Page
31. Swelling of shaft to adjust for optical allusion
Impasto
Altar Piece
Entasis
Dada
32. Led by Matisse --> color is the most important element in a painting - and it is held together by intense line and pattern
Atrium
Fauvism
Emblema
Caduceus
33. Early 20th cent movement of artists who advocated revolution against all forms of traditional values and styles.
Chiton
Addorsed
Futurism
Grisaille
34. Mythological battles among greek heroes
Acropolis
Futurism
Gigantomachy
Kachina Dolls
35. Full sized preliminary sketch for a painting
Mandorla
Chiton
Expressionism
Cartoon
36. Right angle intersection of two barrel vaults
Hiberno-Saxon
Groin Vault
Clerestory
Art Deco
37. Late 19th cent movement that focused on synthesis of all arts in creation of natural forms that could be mass produced
Mannerism
Chiaroscuro
Apotheosis
Art Nouveau
38. Pain mixed with hot wax - and applied to painting while still hot
Encaustic
Disegno
Installation
International Style
39. A hall with a roof supported by columns. popular in Egyptian architecture.
Fauvism
Basilica
Contraposto
Hypostyle Hall
40. Back to back columns with lions to indicated 4 directions
Gesso
Addorsed
Horror Vaqui
Chiton
41. Feminist college by Miriam Schaprio. Assembled fabrics associated with women - and using techniques often used by women.
Chiton
Carpet Page
Femmage
Contraposto
42. Semi-circular form at a short end of a basilica or eastern end of the nave
Apse
Contraposto
Hiberno-Saxon
Chiaroscuro
43. Movement dominated by Naum Gabo. Building structures piece by piece rather than by modeling. Using volume of space and mass
Constructivism
Chryselephantine
Basilica
Ambulatory
44. Torso pointing in one direction and shoulders - arm -s or legs in another with weight unevenly distributed.
Jamb
Contraposto
Capital
Art Deco
45. The wine and wafer that symbolize the last supper - literally or figuratively
Eucharist
Gouache
Caduceus
Horror Vaqui
46. Art emphasizing derived character with visual reference to objects in nature.
Addorsed
Abstract
Dy Point
Hard Edge Painting
47. Space between triglyphs in a Dporic frieze carved with a relief figure
Metope
Collage
Anamorphic Image
Impasto
48. Side posts of a doorway
Hypostyle Hall
Entasis
Jamb
Maesta
49. Art movement that focused on idealistic - utopian and geometric forms
De Stijl
Femmage
Anamorphic Image
Cella
50. American art movement of 1960s. Predominantly sculptural - with a focus in a reduction to homogeneous forms.
Byzantine
Minimalism
Kachina Dolls
Concrete