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Art Terms 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| french for rubbing it is a technique of creating a design by placing a piece of paper over some rough substance such as grained wood or sacking and rubbing a crayon or pencil until acquires the surface quality beneath | frottage |
| the french word for type or sort used to denote a category of painting | genre |
| a painting that has as its subject a scene from everyday life, as opposed to a historical event, mythological scene, etc. | genre painting |
| brilliant white preparation of chalky pigment mixed with glue, used during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as a ground to prepare a panel or canvas for painting or gliding | gesso |
| a transparent layer of paint applied over another color or ground so that light passing through is reflected back by the under surface and modified | glaze |
| an opaque mixture of watercolor paint and white pigment, also called poster paint or body paint | gouache |
| a style of painting based on the type of spray-can vandalism familiar in cities all over the world specifically in the New York subway system | graffiti art |
| monochrome painting in neutral grays to stimulate sculpture | grisaille |
| the picture script of ancient Egypt: pictographs as well as symbols of the ancient Egyptians | heiroglyphics |
| a negative that produces a three-dimensional image | hologram |
| a religious image, usually painted on a wooden panel, regarded as sacred in the Byzantine Church and subsequently by the Orthodox Chruches of Russia and Greece, when they survive | icons |
| the study of the symbolic and religous meaning of people, objects, and events in a work of art | iconography |
| an Italian word used to describe the thickness and textures that can be achieved with acrylic or oil paint | Impasto |
| the cutting into a stone or other material or the etching or engraving on a metal plate of an image; the opposite of relief | intaglio |
| order of Classical Greek architecture in which a capital consists of two opposed volutes or scroll forms | Ionic order |
| a hard, smooth, creamy white substance forming the main part of the tusks of elephants and some other animals, sued as a carving material from the earliest times | ivory |
| the central, uppermost stone in the curved part of an arch | keystone |
| an oven for baking or hardening pottery | kiln |
| an art form in which light or balance are used to create a work that moves or appears to move | kinetic art |
| earliest free-standing statues of human figures | kouros (kouroi) plural |
| clothed maiden | kore |
| an ancient Greek drinking cup with horizontal handles | kylix |
| the site in Dordogne, France, of some outstanding paleolithic cave paintings and rock engravings dating from 15000 BC they have survived in remarkably good condition and depict local fauna on a large scale and in a bold, direct style | Lascaux |
| a process of print making on a flat stone or metal plate after the design is drawn with a greasy crayon, water and printing ink are successively applied. the greasy areas repel water and absorb the ink | lithography |
| in ancient Egyptian architecture, a low rectangular tomb structure with battered sides | mastaba |
| a material used in art: oil in painting, pencil in drawing, or bronze in sculpture. the term is also used to denote a method: painting as opposed to sculpture | medium |
| a niche or other feature of a mosque which points toward Mecca | mihrab |
| the part of the mosque where the pulpit is located | mimbar |
| a slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried | minaret |
| term coined by Duchamp in 1932 to describe the motor or hand-powered kinetic sculptures of Calder and soon extended to those he produced where the movement is caused by the combination of air currents and their own structural tension | mobile |
| a drawing or painting executed in one color only | monochromatic |
| a technique similar to collage, where the images used are photographic | montage |
| marking designs with pieces of colored stone or glass, as embedded in cement first developed by Romans in pavements | mosaic |
| a religious building used for worship by Muslims | mosque |
| an early type of castle consisting of a fortified mound surrounded by a circular walled yard | motte-and-bailey castle |
| a large work painted directly onto a wall or ceiling | mural |
| the long central hall and main gathering area of church | nave |
| in painting, a halo of light surrounding the head of a religious personage | nimbus |
| tall, tapering, four-sided shaft of stone with a pyramidal apex in ancient Egypt | obelisk |
| an object of artistic worth or curiosity, usually a minor art such as ceramics, jewelry, or furniture | object d'art |
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