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AP Art History Vocab
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1. Covered walkway outdoors in a cloister - or covered walkway indoors in a church following the apse.
Emblema
Ambulatory
Contraposto
Aestetics
2. Early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre
Etching
Impressionism
Carpet Page
Daguerreotype
3. Site for baptism but separate from a church
Byzantine
Action Painting
Baptistery
Campanile
4. Using simple geometric figures rather than gestures
Hard Edge Painting
Art Brut
Byzantine
Gouache
5. Name of an image that depicts an anthroned virgin mary and baby jesus
Maesta
Etching
Cella
International Style
6. Painting technique using pigments ground in water
Basilica
Mandorla
Kaaba
Gouache
7. Term used by Jean Dubuffet to describe art that is untaught and brutish
Chimera
De Stijl
Carolingian
Art Brut
8. Full sized preliminary sketch for a painting
Cartoon
Archivolt
Gesso
Art Nouveau
9. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Encaustic
Clerestory
Impasto
Acropolis
10. 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
Fauvism
Metope
Femmage
11. Row of vase shape columns with a railing on top - a decorative fence
Balustrade
Modernism
Chiton
Futurism
12. Pointed tool for incising an engraving plate
Gigantomachy
Art Deco
Futurism
Burin
13. Art movement that focused on idealistic - utopian and geometric forms
De Stijl
Contraposto
Cubism
Groin Vault
14. Northern American dolls of the Soutwest representing the powers and spirits living in mountains and water sources
Kachina Dolls
Abstract
Dada
Metope
15. American avant-garde movement of the 1960s that stressed the ideas of the artist rather than the final product
Conceptual Art
International Style
Mannerism
Altar Piece
16. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Addorsed
Minimalism
Hard Edge Painting
Aestetics
17. 20th century modernist movement that focused on artists personal vision and its emotional impact
Cartoon
Art Nouveau
Expressionism
Groin Vault
18. Back to back columns with lions to indicated 4 directions
Acropolis
Addorsed
Cire Perdue
Constructivism
19. Associated with E.Catholic Church
Abstract Expressionism
Byzantine
Cartoon
Constructivism
20. The wine and wafer that symbolize the last supper - literally or figuratively
Entasis
Eucharist
Kachina Dolls
Abstract
21. Building material devised by ancient romans. Made of lime - volcanic sand - and gravel
Hiberno-Saxon
Archivolt
Concrete
Fauvism
22. Movement dominated by Naum Gabo. Building structures piece by piece rather than by modeling. Using volume of space and mass
Ambulatory
Constructivism
Art Nouveau
Burin
23. Semi-circular form at a short end of a basilica or eastern end of the nave
Baroque
Dy Point
Apse
Etching
24. Feminist college by Miriam Schaprio. Assembled fabrics associated with women - and using techniques often used by women.
Chryselephantine
Expressionism
Apotheosis
Femmage
25. Modeling with light and dark in a drawing to create depth and volume
Concrete
Hard Edge Painting
Baldacchino
Chiaroscuro
26. Led by Matisse --> color is the most important element in a painting - and it is held together by intense line and pattern
Fauvism
Chryselephantine
Butress
Burin
27. Art emphasizing derived character with visual reference to objects in nature.
Basilica
Eucharist
Futurism
Abstract
28. The Italian word for a drawing
Disegno
Acropolis
Art Nouveau
Daguerreotype
29. Having to do with Charlamagne
Carolingian
Cubism
Hard Edge Painting
Installation
30. Abstract painting in which the gesture is seen as the subject of the painting
Action Painting
Kachina Dolls
Conceptual Art
Concrete
31. A sculptural medium made of ivory and gold. Known especially in the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Caryatid
Chryselephantine
Kachina Dolls
Gesso
32. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Abstract Expressionism
Eucharist
Horror Vaqui
Kachina Dolls
33. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Hiberno-Saxon
Modernism
Baptistery
Horror Vaqui
34. Medieval pages that are illuminated and decorative. Looks like cloth.
Butress
Addorsed
Groin Vault
Carpet Page
35. Torso pointing in one direction and shoulders - arm -s or legs in another with weight unevenly distributed.
Cella
Horror Vaqui
Contraposto
Baldacchino
36. Mythological battles among greek heroes
International Style
Abstract Expressionism
Gigantomachy
Art Deco
37. Elaborate - flowery - grandoise art and architecture. Associated with rococo design --> elegant furniture - ornamental mirrors - and extravagant detail.
Art Deco
Baroque
Kachina Dolls
Altar Piece
38. LAte Renaissance movement in which mannerisms were used to evoke emotional expression
Atrium
De Stijl
Caryatid
Mannerism
39. Composition made by combing various materials
Basilica
Apotheosis
Collage
Horror Vaqui
40. Space between triglyphs in a Dporic frieze carved with a relief figure
Byzantine
Emblema
Basilica
Metope
41. Top of a columns shaft where it joints the lintel.
Maesta
Capital
Ambulatory
Femmage
42. Lost wax method of making a bronze statue
Campanile
Concrete
Caduceus
Cire Perdue
43. Early 20th cent movement of artists who advocated revolution against all forms of traditional values and styles.
Chryselephantine
Futurism
Disegno
Hard Edge Painting
44. Canopy on Columns. Most often seen over an altar - st.Peters
Conceptual Art
Metope
Baldacchino
Campanile
45. Painting applied with thick - heavy surfaces
Disegno
Mandorla
Impasto
Dada
46. A panel located above or behind the altar. Has a predella which is a shelf like base
Hiberno-Saxon
Conceptual Art
Altar Piece
Caduceus
47. Swelling of shaft to adjust for optical allusion
Caryatid
Entasis
Horror Vaqui
Modernism
48. Area of a church rising above other parts. Along the nave in churches and right below the ceiling
Femmage
Altar Piece
Clerestory
Addorsed
49. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Campanile
Ambulatory
Hypostyle Hall
Collage
50. Painting on plaster
Addorsed
Fresco
Hard Edge Painting
Kaaba