Art History Basics!!!
Financial support to an artist
What is patronage?
Additional bracing material and arches placed on the exterior of the building
What are flying buttresses?
Hearkened back to the emotional emphasis of the Baroque and had similar characteristics to the Baroque style
What is Romanticism?
God portrayed most often in Indian painting
The effect of special lighting on color
What is optical color?
Oldest work of art
What is the Chauvet Cave?
Won the competition in the city of Florence in 1401 to design the doors for the city’s new baptistery
Who is Lorenzo Ghiberti?
Grew out of the dissatisfaction with rigid rules that came to dominate the Salons
What is impressionism?
In West Africa, the Nok civilization flourished from 900 BCE to 200 BCE, they made impressive _________
Colors chosen for their emotional impact
What is arbitrary color?
Where the sizes of objects and figures are based on their social status
What is hierarchical scale?
Established the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which was referred to as the Academy
Who is Louis XIV?
____________'s _____________ gave impressionism its name
What is Claude Monet's Impression Sunrise?
In Melanesia, there were ______________ decorated with beautiful black, red, and white abstract patterns
What are wooden shields?
lines are incised on the wood or soft metal place using etching or engraving
What is intaglio printmaking?
Figures are represented as clearly as possible, with the head in profile with the eye in frontal view
What is fractional representation?
One of the artists closely associated with the Counter-Reformation
Who is Dominikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)?
Was dissatisfied with the lack of solid form in Impressionist works, so he suggested minimalism with simple underlying forms such as a cube, a sphere, or a cone
Who was Paul Cezanne?
Prevalent in Islamic art
What is calligraphic writing and architecture?
The image is drawn with a waxy pencil or crayon directly onto the plate
What is lithography?
German scholar who shifted away from Vasari’s biographical emphasis, to stylistic development
Who is Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain
Who is Diego Velazquez?
Dissatisfied with the lack of solid form in Impressionist works, so he suggested minimalism with simple underlying form such as a cube, a sphere, or a cone
Who is Paul Cezanne?
The _____ dynasty was referred to as "China's Golden Age"
With the longest drying time: _______
Most versatile: ________
Can add water to make light washes: _________
Oil paint
Acrylic paint
Watercolor