Joshua Kuruvilla ART History Intro VOCAB

Introductory vocabulary flashcards for Art History covering design principles, time periods, and technical terminology.

High Relief

Carved shope stick out a lot

Low Relief

Carved shapes barely sticks out

BCE

Before Common Era

BC

Before Christ

AD

Anno Domini (In the year of the lord)

Emphasis

The most prominent area in a composition

Variety

The combination of imagery, objects, and ideas in an artwork

Unity

Defines how the elements + principles of design are combined within a composition

Pattern

Repetitive imagery

Balance

Asymmetrical / symmetrical imagery

Portrait

Drawings / paintings of people

Landscape

Drawings / paintings of land (buildings, land, etc.)

Still life

Artwork about still objects (vases, fruit, skull)

Iconography

Art about words/symbols

Personification

Takes abstract ideas and puts it in human form

Commission

People who paid for the artwork

Composition

How an artist composes forms in an artwork either by placing shapes on a flat surface or buy arranging forms in space

Medium

Materials

Line

The path of a point moving in space

Color/Hue

Different wavelengths of light

Texture

Quality of a surface

Space

Real $3D$ space occupied by a statue / vase

Perspective

Illusion of depth ($3D$)

Foreshortening

Illusion of depth of humans

Proportion

Relationship between parts of persons, buildings, or objects

Subtractive Sculpt

Carving away from the material

Additive Sculpt

Adding clay to make something

Casting

Pouring metal into a mold to make some shape

Rhythm