Art Terms
This type of Art Analysis focuses on visual quality, taking into careful account the lines, balance, form, texture, and meaning of a work of art.
What is Formal analysis?
Made from cracked marble, this larger than life-sized sculpture is thought to embody the spirit of Florence and is one of th emost famus pieces of Renaissance art.
What is Michelangelo's David, 1504
Another name for mass produced porcelain made with the ashes of animal remains.
What is Bone china
Johannes Gutenberg developes a mechanical printing press in this year. Changing the availibliety of reading printed materials.
What is 1440
This term was adopted from the French military meaning "advance guard"; it referes to a modern or forward-looking artist who breaks with traditional means of artistic expression.
What is Avant-garde
German colormaker Jacob Diesbach created this color by mixing potash with animal fats to create this deep blue, and affordable color.
What is Prussian Blue?
Created with the help of various Roman artists and laboroers, from 72-80 CE, this "giant" work shows the enduring strength of the Roman arches and concrete structures, influencing architeture for years to come.
What is the Colosseum
This is done by placing color onto unfired porcelain before coating it with a think clear liquid and firing it.
What is to underglaze.
The first full-rigged ship is invented around this time.
What is 1400
This term refers to the pseudoscience that involves the measurment of bumps on the skull to predict a person's traits
What is Phernology
This 19th century art movement was characterized by realitivly small, thin brush strokes, and open composition to help simulate actual reflected light in their paintings.
What is the Impressionist Movement?
An engineering feat, this dome was made possible via its inovative double-shelled design.
What is the Dome of the cathedral in Florence?
This see-through material is made to colorfully depict biblical scenes, and is often found in religious buildings.
What is stained glass
Cristallo glass is invented by Angelo Barovier, by mixing quartz pebbles and marine plant ash. Creating an alkali-lime glass with unmatched transparency and purity.
What is 1450
This is an instument for copying a drawing or plan at a different scale by a system of hinged and joined rods.
What is a pantograph
This type of art analysis looks beyond the physical qualities and incorporates the cultural social, religious, and economic circumstances in which the art was created to help determine the meaning of the piece.
What is contextual analysis?
This releigious text, copied and illistrated by monks, was a noteable work of art in itself. It also aidied in the sharing of artistic ideas between religions in Europe, in the late 8th century.
What is the Book of Kells?
This is a well-preserved ancient Roman temple with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.
What is the Pantheon
Prior to World World II, televsion is first exibited to the public in this year.
When is 1927
This refers to a type of artwork created though actions and executed by the artist or other participants; it may be witnessed live or through documentation.
What is preformance art
This is one of the elements of art that refers to the surface quality of a work of art, and can be actual or visual.
What is texture?
in 30,000 BCE, these paintings are one of the earliest examples if art made by humans, with care and artistic intent.
What are the Paintings in Chauvet Cave
Meaning "eye" in Latin, this is the name for a circular opening in a dome.
What is oculus
Nam june Paik creates Magnet TV in the middle of this "groovy" decade
What is 1965
This is a type of abstract art, usually oil on canvas, characterized by gestural brush strokes and the imppression of spontanaity; it flourished in New York durin gthe 1950's and 60's.
What is Abstract Expressionism