Art Appreciation Final

Content

Aa work of art that is about, its subject matter, as interpreted by the viewer

Nonobjective

is art that does no represent or refer to the visible world

Informal balance

another term for asymmetrical balance

Typeface

a style of type

Which colors can’t be mixed

Red, yellow, & blue, and primary colors

Difference between crafts and arts

In crafts there is a special emphasis on the materials used

What is the medium binder for encaustic

hot wax

What is Gouache

a watercolor medium into which an inherit white pigment has been added

What is the most common medium for oil paint

linseed oil

The technique of buon fresco & true fresco is applied to what

wet plaster

Example of nonaqueous medium

oil paint

What event prompted Pablo Picasso to create the painting Guernica

the devastation of a spanish city by bombers

What does contrapposto mean in sculpture

posed with the weight of the body shifted onto one foot

sculpture in which the subjects project very slightly from the background

low relief

Example of record and commemorate

Jahangir recieves a cup from khusrau

oldest cave paintings made around what

30,000 bce

What does paleolithic mean

of unkown origin

hierarchical scale

use of scale to indicate relative importance

most common drawing media today

graphite pencil

what is pastel made of

pigment bound with a non-greasy binder

father of impressionism

edouard manet

What colors are direct opposite

complementary

who created campbell soup artwork

andy warhol

low relief

a relief that barely projects off the surface

pieta

standard subject in christian art

what time period is colossal head from

olmac

Iconography

involves indentifying, describing, & interpreting subject matter