Unit 3

A wall-painting technique in which pigment is mixed with fresh wet plaster.

Fresco

The depiction of highlights and shadows in a painting.

Chiaroscuro

Colors that are directly opposite one another on the color wheel.

Complementary Colors

The overall use of color by an artist in a work

Palette

The depiction of more than one scene of a story within a single painting.

Continuous Narration

The two principal techniques that painters use to make forms appear three-dimensional.

Chiaroscuro and Perspective

The technique developed by Georges Seurat in which thousand of tiny dots of paint are applied to the canvas.

Pointillism

When line and form strongly direct our focus into an artwork, the work is said to have this.

Closed Composition

When line and form direct our focus out beyond and away from an artwork, the work is said to have this.

Open Composition

"Holes" in sculpture are called this.

Negative Space

Painting represented by masters such as Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.

High Renaissance

Style that gently satirized the customs of the age with humor. It was intimate and graceful, and tended to emphasize themes of love, sentiment, pleasure, and sincerity. Artists such as Watteau and Boucher are representative of this style.

Rococo

Style that included sacred Christian subject matter and mythological content used symbolically, as well as portraiture.

Early Renaissance

Style that reflected the influence of the attention given to Classical antiquity and its compositional principles represented by artists such as Jacques-Louis David.

Neoclassical

Style that tended to feature greater contrast between highlight and shadow, open composition, and dynamic scenes.

Baroque

Style that dynamic scenes were often depicted with a dark palette.

Romantic

Style that explored uniquely individualistic approaches to painting. These artists included Georges Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh.

Post-Impressionism

Style that painters sought to "capture a moment's glance" of a scene and used generally brighter colors, exemplified by artists such as Monet and Renoir.

Impressionism

Artwork that explores the subject matter of dreams and psychological associations of ideas and symbols, as exemplified by the work of Salvador Dalí, is classified as this.

Surrealism

Pablo Picasso was the leading figure in developing this early 20th-century style that explored new ways of presenting spatial relationships in painting.

Cubism

A stylistic movement in the arts in the first three decades of the 20th century in German-speaking lands and Scandinavia in which artists explored the psychological aspects of difficult circumstances, and sought to evoke a powerful emotional response in the audience.

Expressionism

Artwork that is not in any way inspired by nor depicts forms or things from the real world is best referred to as this.

Abstract

The implication of motion suggested by certain forms or poses found in sculptures is referred to as this.

Dynamics

Sculpture that is freestanding and fully 3-dimensional, meant to be viewed from any angle, has this dimensionality.

Full Round

Sculpture that projects from a background, and can be viewed from only one side, has this dimensionality.

Relief

Carved works, made by cutting or chipping away, typically made of wood or stone (marble), would be made by this means of execution.

Subtraction

Bronze sculptures, made from a mold, would be executed by means of this.

Substitution

Clay works are made by means of this.

Manipulation

The conceptual, transitory installations made by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, are categorized as this.

Ephemeral

Natural art objects might be classified as this category of sculpture.

Found