Ancient Greece
In ancient Greek architecture, this is the lowest part of Ionic and Corinthian columns.
What is the Base?
The open area of a church parallel to the nave and separated from it by columns or piers.
What is the Aisle?
Paint made with pigments mixed with egg yolk or water
What is tempera?
Any art form that is extremely simplified and does not reference other art movements
What is Minimalism?
The uppermost member of a column.
What is the Capital?
A series of arches supported by columns or piers.
What is an Arcade?
To create this, artists apply a mixture of powdered pigments and water to wet lime plaster, prompting a chemical process that fuses the pigment with the wall.
What is a Fresco?
Developed by Picasso and Georges Braque between 1909 and 1914 as an artistic exploration of geometry and perspective.
What is Cubism?
Greek for "young woman."
What is Kore?
An elongated, pointed structure which rises from a tower, turret, or roof.
What is a Spire?
A painting technique that produces soft, hazy transitions between tones.
What is Sfumato?
Dalí and Ernst, embraced the ideas of pure functioning of thought and automatism, without the considerations of aesthetics.
What is Surrealism?
In Greek architecture, this is usually the site of the city's most important temple(s).
What is Acropolis?
A vault on which a complex of ribs gives a net-like appearance.
What is a Net Vault?
The technique of showing objects in space on a flat surface
What is perspective?
A 19th-century movement started to contrast the rationalism and order of Western society. Revels in the unordered, ironic, absurd, and chaotic.
What is Dadaism?
The disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part.
What is Contrapposto?
The simplest form of a vault, consisting of a continuous surface of semicircular or pointed sections. It resembles a barrel or tunnel which has been cut in half lengthwise
What is a Barrel Vault?
The use of light and shadow to define form.
What is chiaroscuro?
The first great Modernist school of art established in Weimar, Germany in 1919. The school embraced Constructivism.
What is Bauhaus?