Calming colors are colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
The grooves made in column shafts.
What is fluting?
European artistic stype of the late 16th to 18th century characterized by extravagance and emotional intensity whose name was derived from the Portuguese work for large irregulary shaped pearl.
What is Baroque?
A sculpture that can be viewed from all sides.
What is in-the-round?
Portraits painting, history painting, landscape painting, still life painting and genre painting.
What are the five genres of painting?
A line not actually drawn but suggested by elements in the work.
What is an implied line?
What is entasis?
The technique Michelangelo used overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness in this drawing of the Head of a Satyr.
What is cross-hatching?
Removing material from a flat panel to create an image.
What is a relief sculpture?
This painting by Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, fragmented depiction of movement is considered to have inspired a new art movement by Pablo Picasso.
This early optical device, used by artists for centuries, projects an inverted image of the surrounding scene onto a flat surface, serving as a precursor to modern photography.
What is the Camera Obscura?
The three column; Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.
What are the Greek Classical Orders.
Who is the Renaissance artist who painted this fresco, The School of Athens, for Pope Julius II's private apartment in the Vatican.
Who is Raphael?
Michelangelo posted David in the Renaissance classical style with the upper part of the body twisting in one direction and the weight shifted to one hip on the lower part of the body.
What is Contrapposto?
The artist pictured here only sold four paintings during his career.
Who is Vincent van Gogh
The Italian di maniera, meaning charm, grace, playfulness. a style of painting, usually with elongated human figures.
What is Mannerism?
The decorative element with three two groves creating three raised vertical bands in a Doric order Temple.
What is a triglyph?
Georges Seurat is best known for his technique of applying small dots of color to create images like his famous paintings the Circus or A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. What is this technique called?
What is Pointillism?
The sculptural program found on Gothic Church entrances.
What is church portal sculpture.
The style of this iconic painting by Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, is based on the work of Sigmund Freud and unconscious dreams.
What is Surrealism?
The use of light and dark in a painting to create the impression of volume.
What is chiaroscuro?
Subtle deviations were made to Greek temples to correct optical distortions made by the human eye so that temples would appear perfectly symmetrical and balanced.
What are optical refinements?
Claude Monet's painting (pictured below) is best know for establishing a new major art movement.
What is Impressionism
The pedimental sculptures from the Parthenon that were taken to the United Kingdom from Greece in 1801.
What are the Elgin Marbles.
Raphael's preparatory drawing, for his famous Fresco The School of Athens.
What is a cartoon?