Art History
Vanitas
Pen and Ink
Watercolor
Portraits
100
This is the longest era in art history. The characteristic artworks include Goddess figures, animal and hunting images and cave paintings.
What is the Stone Age
100
An image that includes objects and (occasionally) dead animals.
What is a still life?
100
the name of the metal point of the pen that holds the ink.
What is a nib?
100
an smooth area of color with no lines and no variation in tone
What is a flat wash?
100
the side view of a human head
What is a profile?
200
This Era of art history saw the development of perspective, the celebration of the human form and realism.
What is the Renaissance?
200
Because of their meaning and what they symbolize.
What is the reason certain objects are chosen as subjects for a still life?
200
using lines to create darker areas of a pen and ink composition
What is linear shading?
200
in addition to paint and a brush, this substance in crucial to successful watercolor art
What is water?
200
a drawing of the head turned slightly or drastically away from the viewer
What is a 3/4 view?
300
This is the age of the Greeks and Romans ans some of the first realistic human sculptures that are still in in existence today.
What is the Iron Age?
300
Latin for "vanity".
What is Vanitas?
300
using dots to create darker areas of a pen and ink composition
What is stippling?
300
two ways to mix watercolor paint
What are layering paint on paper and mixing paint on a palate?
300
the basic shape with which we began all of our portriats
What is a circle?
400
This Art era included a great deal of funerary art created by the Egyptians.
What is the Bronze age?
400
the meaninglessness of all early life and the transience of material objects
What is the message conveyed by Vanitas paintings?
400
one way to lighten ink to create lighter tones
What is adding water?
400
the three colors that sit in between red and orange
What are red-orange, orange, and yellow orange?
400
the distance from the brow line to the bottom-of-the-nose line is equal to
What is the distance from the bottom-of- the-nose line to the bottom of the chin?
500
This art era began around 1870 and continues today. It includes many "ism"s.
What is Modern Art?
500
clocks, a dying flower, rotting fruit, a skull...
What are some of the symbols of the passage of time used in Vanitas paintings?
500
tools used to create smooth, non-linear areas of tone and value in a pen and ink composition
What are brush and ink? (water)
500
the standard way to label tertiary colors
What is primary color first, then secondary color? (ex. red-orange, yellow green, blue violet)
500
the line the shows where the center of the face is
What is the mid-line?
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