Art History
a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings.
Ukiyo-e
A way of showing gradual changes in lightness or darkness in a drawing or painting. This helps make a picture look more three-dimensional.
shading
Those who study art history and cultural traditions that relate to art, such as forms of government, religious beliefs, and social activities.
Art Historians
A printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adhere to them, while the non-image areas are made ink repellent.
Lithograph
A work if art created to show a person, animal, or group of people, usually focusing on the face.
Portrait
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.
Inuk Art
A "free-form" which has irregular and uneven edges and is often found in nature, such as an apple, tree, or an animal.
Organic Form
A person who works to protect artworks from damage or decay.
An artwork in which the artists glues bits of cut or torn paper, photographs, fabric, or other materials to a flat surface.
Collage
encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople.
Folk Art
Regionalism
A person, an animal, an object, or a scene represented in an artwork; the topic of an artwork.
Subject
A person who makes detailed technical plans or drawings.
Draftsman
One of a series of images in a filmstrip or animation.
Frame
Art relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically an environmentally degraded one.
Dystopian Art
The period between the 1300s and 1600s, during which new ideas and technological advances laid the foundation for modern society.
Renaissance
The difference between two unlike things, such as a light color and a dark color.
Contrast
Responsible for policy making and funding, planning, organizing, staffing, and directing the museum.
Art Director
The art and science of making a picture with a camera and film other than a video camera or motion picture.
Still Photography
A large artwork, usually a painting on a wall or ceiling, often in a public place.
Mural
A type of art developed during the 1920s that combines realistic images and dreamlike images.
Surrealism
A three-dimensional object or the representation of a three-dimensional object. It has height, depth, and width.
Form
To request, or the request for, the production of a work of art.
Commision
A type of fiber art made from two layers of cloth that are sewn together with a layer of padding or stuffing in between.
Quilt
Commonly refers to decorative imagery applied by paint or other means to buildings, public transport, or other property.
Graffiti