Art Appreciation Vocabulary

An artwork made of (3D) three-diamensional materials including found objects

A photographic process using light-sensitve iron salts that oxidize and produce a brilliant blue color where light is blocked; a variant of this process was used historically to copy architectual drawings

Decorative stitching generally made with colored thread applied to the surface of a fabric

A painting medium that primarily uses wax, usually beeswas, as the binding agent

An intellectual movement in 18th Eighteenth-Century Europe that argued for science, reason and indivualism. Challenging recieved ideas passed down by tradition, The Enlightenment also promoted the motion of equal rights for all people.

A technique in which the artist paints onto freshly applied plaster. From the Italian fresco "Fresh"

A category of artistic subject matter, often with a strongly influential history and tradition

In the visual arts a late 19th Nineteenth-Century Style Conveying the fleeting impression of the effects of light; Impressionist were artists working in this style

Originally referring to the hanging of pictures and arrangements of object in an exhibition, installation may also refer to an international environment created ass a completed artwork

Any print process where the inked image is lower than the surface of the printing plate from the Italian for "cut into"

The art of setting pieces of wood into a surface to creat a pattern

A print process executed on a flat unmarred surface such as a stone in which the image is created usinng oil-based ink with resistance to water

A unique graphic image used to identify an idea or entity

From Italian maniera, meaning "Stylish style" : a Mid-to Later 16th Sixteeth Century Style of painting, usually with elongated human figures, elevating grace as an ideal.

Also Known as mo-Cap or Performance capture; Technology developed to animate CGI Characters by translating into digital performance the live exact motions of people or objects using specially designed suits or equipment with sensors

A European style that flourished during the later 18th Eighteenth and Early 19th Nineteenth Centuries characterized by an extreme interest in the Classical world, strictly ordered scenes and heroric subjects

A powdered pigment mixed with gum and used in stick form for drawing

A curving traingular space, situated above the row of colums on the facade of a building in the classical style

A horizontal beam (the lintel ) Supported by a post at either end

1) A 19th Ninetheenth Century artistic Style that aimed to depict nature and everyday subjects is an unidealized manner. "Realism" is also to describe a historical movement from the same period "which tried to achieve the social change and equality by highlighting in art and literature the predicament of the poor. 2) An artistic style that aims to represent appearances as accurately as possible.

A print process where the inked image is higher than the non-printing areas

A sculpture that projects from a flat surface

a period of cultureal and artistic Change in Europe from the 14th Fourteenth to 17th Seventeenth Century

Romantic a moment in 19th Nineteenth Century European Culture, concerned with the power of the imagination and greatly valuing intense feeling

Figures, puppets or dolls are photographed in a pose, moved very slightly and then photographed again The process is repeated until the desired sequence of movements has been acted out.

From the French meaning to "deceive the eye" a visual illusion in art in which a painted image appears as three 3 dimensional object

The art of designing arranging and choosing type

Woodblock : a relief print process where the image is carved into a block of wood, Woodcut - a relief print made from a design cut into a block of wood.

The intential arrangement of visual textual and spactial elements on a page screen or canvas to organize information established a clear reading flowand communicate a message effectively

A free standing 3 Three dimensional art form that is not attached to a back ground or flat surface allowing it to be viewed from 360 degrees

(Also known in art and architecture history as stacking and piling) Is a building method where the walls themselves act as the prinmary structural support carrying the weight of the roof upper floors and over all building down to the foundation.