Complete List of Terms and Definitions for Art Review 2
| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| l'entracte | intermission |
| Lamentation | Giotto |
| la torre | tower |
| la cerámica | pottery |
| renomme | renowned, famous |
| calligraphy | beautiful handwriting |
| Tint | add white |
| le douanier | customs officer |
| Francisco Goya | social painter |
| Texture | How things feel |
| light primaries | red green blue |
| non-objective | not based on anything |
| The Potato Eaters | Van Gogh |
| create | to make or produce. |
| The Snake Charmer Artist | Jean-Leon Gerome |
| par rapport a | in relation to |
| Fresco |
= Wet Giotto invented so painting would last longer on walls |
| Ephemeral | enduring a very short time |
| Monochromatic | Tints and shades of 1 color |
| Art Critic | analyzes, evaluates, and critiques; good or bad, works of art based on specific criteria |
| Format | the surface on which you work |
| Name the Primary colors | Red, Yellow, Blue |
| Renaissance | rebirth of classical art and learning |
| Proportion | the comparative relationship of size between units or the part of a whole. |
| Taboo | Not to be noticed or mentioned. |
| value | describes the lightness or darkness of a color |
| Throwing Ribs | Wooden, wedge shaped tools for smoothing |
| Monet | French Painter, who started his career as a caricaturist, then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in different lights. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) he took refuge in England with Pissarro: he studied the work of Constable and Turner. By 1890 he was successful enough to buy the house he had previously rented. In his final years, he was troubled by failing eyesight. However, he continued to paint until the end of his life. He was enormously prolific and many major galleries have examples of his work. |
| secondary color | a mixture of two primary colors. |
| Woodcut | A relief printmaking process wherein a design is directly incesed on a copper plate, ink is worked into the grooves, wiping the higher surfaces clean. Put in a printing press with a piece of wet rag paper, the resulting print is the mirrir image of the plate. |
| "David" (high renaissance) | david is compositionally and emotionally connected to an unseen presence beyond the statue, a feature of Hellenistic sculpture. |
| Form | Objects that have height, width, and depth 3-D |
| pattern | elements or motifs repeated again and again to produce a pattern |
| interpretation | what is the artist trying to say? |
| Tetrad | 4 colors skipping 2 colors in between in a color wheel. Ex. red, green, yellow-orange, and blue-violet. |
| Central Axis | Imaginary line that passes through the center. |
| wedging | getting all air bubbles out of the clay |
| impressionism | a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light |
| cons of tempura | requires meticulous skill, dries very fast, true egg tempura is difficult to find, ready mixed |
| flowing | type of rhythm or pattern created by repeating wavy lines |
| Playfulness | A sense of humor and ability to experiment freely |
| Representation vs. Abstraction |
abstraction: forms and colors arranged without reference to the depiction of a object. representation: describes the signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation people know and understand the world and reality through the act of naming it. Signs are manipulated in order to make sense of the world. |
| Social realism | A loose term encompassing films that point out flaws in the social structure. Examples include the Warner Brothers films of the 1930's, the neorealist films of post-World War2 Italy, and the British "Kitchen Sink" school of late 1950's. (depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic.[1] The movement is a style of painting in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire.[2]) |
| wet into wet | painting additional color into a wet area, creating a soft efffect |
| gesture drawing | a drawing done where the artist uses large sweeping strokes and rough sketchy lines |
| abstract or nonrepresentational art | art which depicts a reduced, essentialized form of a thing, rather than its actual appearance. african masks helped inspire modernist abstraction |
| a ? is a group of inanimate objects such as boxes, books, and plants which is usually set-up to be drawn or painted | still-life |
| length and angle | All perspective lines in 3-D Gothic letter should be similar in... |
| encaustic | a type of painting in which pigment is suspended in a binder of hot wax. |
| line | is a moving point on the surface of a canvas, a paper, a slab of clay, or a metal printing plate |
| tool-implements | used to put the media on the ground 9 paintbrush, speed ball pen) or USED TO CHANGE THE APPEARANCE OF THE MEDIA( chisel and hammer) |
| sculpture in the round | a freestanding work that can be viewed from any angle, for it is finished on all sides |
| What is the golden rectangle's relationship to the human ratio | the golden ratio is the human body proportion. We see it in our face, and body. We are basically made up of the ratio |
