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AP Art History Vocab
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1. Building material devised by ancient romans. Made of lime - volcanic sand - and gravel
Impasto
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Concrete
Art Nouveau
2. Referring to medieval art of British Isles
Hiberno-Saxon
Entasis
Basilica
Art Brut
3. Full sized preliminary sketch for a painting
Apse
Chi-Rho-Iota
Cartoon
Dy Point
4. Grays and monochrome used to shade a painting. Most frequently in outer sides of altarpieces
Action Painting
Grisaille
Balustrade
Mandorla
5. Space opens to sky in an ancient Roman house
Atrium
Grisaille
Campanile
Mandorla
6. A hall with a roof supported by columns. popular in Egyptian architecture.
Concrete
Etching
Dada
Hypostyle Hall
7. Engraving on a metal plate covered in a protective wax. Incised parts are etched when surface is bathed in acid.
Etching
Chryselephantine
Art Brut
Cartoon
8. Semi-circular form at a short end of a basilica or eastern end of the nave
Addorsed
Cella
Chryselephantine
Apse
9. The Italian word for a drawing
Clerestory
Acropolis
Baptistery
Disegno
10. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Installation
Aestetics
Chiton
Campanile
11. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Mandorla
Apse
Disegno
Acropolis
12. Movement dominated by Naum Gabo. Building structures piece by piece rather than by modeling. Using volume of space and mass
Anamorphic Image
Cartoon
Basilica
Constructivism
13. Painting technique using pigments ground in water
Gouache
Entasis
Caryatid
Emblema
14. Name of an image that depicts an anthroned virgin mary and baby jesus
Modernism
Collage
Clerestory
Maesta
15. Public building used for assembly. Evolved from Greek and Roman Tempe. Foundation of axial plane: entrance at short end with apse at eastern end.
Chiton
Apse
Basilica
Contraposto
16. 3 first letters in Greek spelling of Christ
Butress
Chi-Rho-Iota
Chiton
Hiberno-Saxon
17. Canopy on Columns. Most often seen over an altar - st.Peters
Baldacchino
Metope
Etching
Aestetics
18. Space between triglyphs in a Dporic frieze carved with a relief figure
Chi-Rho-Iota
Ambulatory
Metope
Altar Piece
19. Art movement that focused on idealistic - utopian and geometric forms
Conceptual Art
Cella
Emblema
De Stijl
20. Exterior masonry support opposing the lateral thrust of a vault.
Horror Vaqui
Butress
Chi-Rho-Iota
Conceptual Art
21. Clothing of men and women in greece. Tunic-like
Momento Mori
Butress
Chiton
Basilica
22. Torso pointing in one direction and shoulders - arm -s or legs in another with weight unevenly distributed.
Momento Mori
Capital
Conceptual Art
Contraposto
23. Feminist college by Miriam Schaprio. Assembled fabrics associated with women - and using techniques often used by women.
Etching
Chimera
Installation
Femmage
24. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Femmage
Contraposto
Basilica
Horror Vaqui
25. Movement that defined industrial design as art. Used decorative patterns that were elongated and symmetrical. Ex: Chrysler Building
Cartoon
Etching
Art Deco
Kachina Dolls
26. Post-modernist art creating an environment in a room or gallery
Installation
Entasis
Mannerism
Apse
27. Medieval pages that are illuminated and decorative. Looks like cloth.
Daguerreotype
Carpet Page
Abstract Expressionism
Apotheosis
28. Distorted image that must be viewed in a special way or angle to be correctly perceived
Chiton
Hiberno-Saxon
Anamorphic Image
Aestetics
29. Elaborate - flowery - grandoise art and architecture. Associated with rococo design --> elegant furniture - ornamental mirrors - and extravagant detail.
Anamorphic Image
Basilica
Aisle
Baroque
30. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Aestetics
Minimalism
Mandorla
Cire Perdue
31. Uses land as a medium. Great scale - simple form.
Daguerreotype
Abstract
Anamorphic Image
Earth Art/Environmental Art
32. A sculptural medium made of ivory and gold. Known especially in the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Minimalism
Concrete
Groin Vault
Chryselephantine
33. First major american avant hard movement. Art expressed state of mind to evoke emotional response from the viewer
Fauvism
Groin Vault
Abstract Expressionism
Apotheosis
34. Black cube symbolizing the center of Islam in Mecca
Art Deco
Kaaba
Disegno
Installation
35. Lost wax method of making a bronze statue
Cire Perdue
Carolingian
Aestetics
Hypostyle Hall
36. Painting on plaster
Dada
Burin
Fresco
Aestetics
37. Swelling of shaft to adjust for optical allusion
Entasis
Aisle
Canon
Art Deco
38. Greek monster with head and body of a lion - trail of a serpant/dragon - and 2nd head of a goat from the butt
Hiberno-Saxon
Groin Vault
International Style
Chimera
39. Area of a church rising above other parts. Along the nave in churches and right below the ceiling
Clerestory
Futurism
Carpet Page
Modernism
40. American art movement of 1960s. Predominantly sculptural - with a focus in a reduction to homogeneous forms.
Action Painting
Hard Edge Painting
Apse
Minimalism
41. Composition made by combing various materials
Cire Perdue
Gesso
Encaustic
Collage
42. Plaster mixed with a binding material. Sometimes to prepare wood panels for altarpieces
Clerestory
Capital
Gesso
Futurism
43. Term used by Jean Dubuffet to describe art that is untaught and brutish
Art Brut
Canon
Eucharist
Altar Piece
44. Late 19th cent movement attempting to capture fleeting moment of nature
Apse
Cire Perdue
Action Painting
Impressionism
45. Using simple geometric figures rather than gestures
Impressionism
Hard Edge Painting
Expressionism
Aestetics
46. Covered walkway outdoors in a cloister - or covered walkway indoors in a church following the apse.
Anamorphic Image
Chimera
Ambulatory
Gigantomachy
47. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Chryselephantine
Modernism
Contraposto
Art Brut
48. French elements in Italian art. Focused on lavish fabric - intricate ornamentation - and brilliant color.
Chi-Rho-Iota
Gigantomachy
International Style
Capital
49. The wine and wafer that symbolize the last supper - literally or figuratively
Eucharist
Collage
Chi-Rho-Iota
Action Painting
50. 20th century modernist movement that focused on artists personal vision and its emotional impact
Chryselephantine
Expressionism
Grisaille
Byzantine