Art 285 vocab

Naturalism

Appears like the natural world

Continuous narrative

Different parts of story without physical dividers (multiple moments in 1 frame)

Chiaroscuro

Using light and dark values to create depth

Fresco

pigment added to plaster

Tempra

pigment and egg yolk

Icon

Devotional image of saint

Narrative Painting

work of art that tells a story

Diptych / Triptych / Polyptych

Diptych (2 panels), triptych (3 panels), Polyptych (4 or more)

Genre

type of painting (portrait, landscape)

Context

physical and social surroundings

Content

the message conveyed

Art form

medium (painting, sculpture, print, architecture)

Grisaille

Black and white painting (no color)

Allegory

representation of abstract idea (justice, love)

Atmospheric Perspective

No lines, uses loss of detail and shift of scale

Doric, ionic, Corinthian

Classical order (top has plant life)

Classicism

Artists looking back to ancient greece and rome for inspiration

Contrapposto

Hips and shoulders are leaning in different directions (sign of naturalism)

Humanism

Interest in education and knowledge

Linear perspective

Use of lines to mimic human vision

Piano Nobile

1 story above ground (the noble floor)

Quatrefoil

4 overlapping loops to create a symmetrical clover shape

Trompe L’oeil

painting that depicts architecture as if it is really there

Disegno

Planning, thinking process of design

Ignudi

Decorative male nudes

Sfumato

Vanish foreground with lights and darks so foreground and bkg become one (leonardo)

Vitruvius

theories of human proportion and symmetry

Bacchanal/Bacchante

wild/wine fueled festival

Cassone

wooden trunk for new bride to bring things to new life (clothes)

Colorito

intuition/instinct, no planning (opposite of disegno)

Pastoral

scene of idealized nature (typically view of country)

Sacra Conversazione

holy conversation, gathering of saints from across time in 1 space

Architrave

rests directly on capitals of columns

Grotesques

blends human animal and plant forms

Triglyph

used in a frieze and 3 vertical bands repeated

Virtuosity

artists focused on showing skill and technique (not focused on copying real world)

Iconoclasm

no images of saints (calvinists)

Heresy

treason against god

Salomonica

twisting columns

Tenebrism

shadowy, sharp light and dark contrast

Fleur de Lys

3 petal flower used by french monarchy

Swagger Portrait

full length portrait of monarch, life size or larger, elevates monarch in some way making them seem larger than life

Repoussoir

framing device, fills corners and redirects eye to center of painting

Vanitas

still life that reminds of own mortality

Bust

portrait length: shoulder and head

half length

Portrait length: waist and up

¾ length

portrait length: knees and up

full length

portrait length: full body

View of head

frontal, ¾ view, profile

Genre scene

everyday people doing everyday things

Format

shape and orientation(vertical rectangle)

Cartoon

Full scale prep drawing