Art Terms Periods
This style is a return to the ancient principles of logic and rational composition
What is Classical?
This is a three-part work of art, with panels that fold together.
What is a Triptych?
What is monochromatic?
This is a large mosaic, painting, or fresco, usually done on a wall.
What is a mural?
This is used in painting to apply a layer of diluted paint or pigment
What is a wash?
This 20th century movement embodied dreams, visions, and more spontaneous, fantastical styles
This kind of painting is often an arrangement of objects brought together for their contrast, color, etc.
What is a still life?
Paint that uses water for thinning, lightening, or mixing.
What is watercolor?
A form of art that portrays objects in the natural world and or everyday lives.
What is Realism?
This is a detailed drawing or painting made of ONE PART of a final composition
What is a Study?
This style of architecture is very ornate, playful, and often conceptualized as "Romantic."
What is Rococo?
This is an image made out of wood blocks, carvings, etc, pressed with ink onto paper.
What is a print?
This technique involves mixing two primary colors together, resulting in...
What are secondary colors?
This style involves utilizing tiny dots of color, which appear to blend to the eye of the viewer from a distance.
What is pointillism?
This is how very fashionable artists and writers chill out and talk about ideas.
What is a Salon?
This form applied to art in the mid-20th century that utilized mass culture
What is Pop Art?
This uses more than one medium to create a piece of art.
What is mixed media?
This is the word to describe the use of many colors.
What is Polychromatic?
The word for "smoke," which offers a soft, clouded atmosphere to art works.
What is sfumato?
This is how three-dimensional objects can be represented with relative size and distance.
What is perspective?
This style of painting refers to a return to the classical styles of Greece and Rome, with mathematical composition.
What is Neoclassicism?
This style/form uses geometric shapes and has the ability to portray a subject from multiple perspectives.
What is Cubism?
Tones that have little to no hue, sometimes caused by mixing complimentary colors.
What are neutral tones?
What is chiarascuro?
This is a technique used with close parallel lines, also referred to as "stippling."
What is hatching?