Art Elements
Contour is an example of this element.
What is line?
Type of prehistoric painting that survived due to protection from the elements (weather).
What is cave painting?
This civilization's mastery of math enabled them to build large-scale monuments along the Nile.
What is Egyptian?
WHAT IS THE MAIN REASON MOST OF THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN ART WAS IN CATACOMBS?
CHRISTIANITY WAS NOT LEGAL (LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY UNDERGROUND).
WHAT IS THE HAGIA SOPHIA?
Tints, complementary and analogous are words related to this element.
What is color?
Neolithic peoples used _____ to carry water (made from clay).
What is pottery?
Greek style of pottery invented after the Black Figure style.
Red Figure style
A SYMBOLIC RELIGIOUS FIGURE.
WHAT IS AN ICON?
ART PERIOD THAT FEATURES MOSTLY RELIGIOUS, CHRISTIAN ART AND "DARK TIMES" (PLAGUES, WARS, ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES)
WHAT IS THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD?
Aspect or element of a composition that pulls the most focus.
What is the dominant element?
Stonehenge is made up of these large, erect stones.
What are monoliths?
"Cradle of civilization", included the Sumerians, Babylonians, and the Assyrians.
What is Mesopotamia?
What is Gothic?
THIS ART MOVEMENT AT THE END OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD WAS NAMED AFTER THE ROMANS.
WHAT IS ROMANESQUE?
Diagonal lines can help to create a dynamic composition with ______.
What is movement?
Newgrange is an example of this type of Neolithic tomb.
What is passage tomb?
MOST ELABORATE GREEK COLUMN, OFTEN WITH LEAVES DECORATING THE TOP.
WHAT IS CORINTHIAN?
THE BOOK OF KELLS, FULL OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, IS AN EXAMPLE OF ____ ART, A PERIOD OF CULTURAL MIXING BETWEEN GERMANIC AND NORDIC PEOPLES.
WHAT IS INSULAR ART OR MIGRATION ART?
MANY ROMAN SCULPTURES ARE ACTUALLY COPIES OF THIS CIVILIZATION'S ART.
WHAT IS GREEK?
Symmetry can create this in a composition.
Paleolithic female figure discovered in 1906 in Austria.
What is the Woman or Venus of Willendorf?
Female version of a Kouros statues.
What are Kore?
ITALIAN PAINTER GIOTTO IMPRESSED THE POPE WITH THIS SKILL.
WHAT IS DRAWING A PERFECT CIRCLE?
WHAT IS A DOME?