| ART 100: Art Appreciation | WECHT Spring 2011 |
| ART 379: Art and Architecture of Europe | Yager |
LIST OF ART TERMS
You should be familiar with the following terms as they apply to art. Most of them are defined in the Glossary at the back of ARTFROMS.
abstract art academy/academic art avant garde Baroque binder (in paint) casting chiaroscuro classical collage contrapposto composition (formal elements) Counter-Reformation egg tempera expressionism figure ground relationship foreshortening fresco genre painting glaze (in painting) Gothic ground (in painting) hatching/cross-hatching history painting icon iconography idealized illusionistic depth Impressionism impasto installation kiln linear Mannerism medium (plural media) modeling |
mold mosaic naturalism Neoclassicism non-objective painterly palette patron performance art perspective (linear and aerial) picture plane pigment Protestant Reformation Realism relief sculpture Renaissance Rococo Romanticism scientific linear perspective sculpture in the round style subject matter symbol symmetrical/asymmetrical value vanishing point |