Art Making
a type of painting generally affixed on walls where pigments are applied directly into wet plaster, which are then chemically bound upon drying.
fresco
an informal international art movement that arose during World War I that rebelled against established standards in art
Dada
a style of art that rejects the realistic portrayal of the world around us
abstraction
a Latin term literally meaning "dark room," is a darkened box with a small hole that allows light to pass through and project an upside-down,backwards image
camera obscura
a term that refers to a body of works of art that are considered valuable or essential to understanding culture.
"the canon"
a type of painting that is slow drying, where multiple layers called glazing are applied on top of each other, which create luminosity and brilliance in colors.
oil
an art movement of the 18th and 19th centuries concerned with expressing the individual's feelings and emotions.
Romanticism
often translated as "pictures of the floating world," is a form of Japanese relief printmaking in which a paper is pressed against multiple different woodblocks coated with different color inks.
ukiyo-e
a tool that artists use to create the illusion of pictorial depth
one point perspective
a public display of works of art or items of interest, held in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair.
exhibition
a type of painting where pigments are mixed with egg, and is characterized by fast-drying paint which is usually applied in short lines.
tempera
a cultural and art movement that characterized Europe from the early-17th to the mid-18th century, emphasizing dramatic, exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted, detail.
Baroque
a book, similar to a scrap book, that contains collected paintings and examples of calligraphy, popular with collectors in later Islamic cultures
muraqqa' album
an art movement in France in the nineteenth century, based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches.
Impressionism
the ownership history of a work of art.
provenance
a type of artwork that is made from cut-up pieces of paper, photographs, or other ephemera stuck down onto a supporting surface
collage
a Western cultural movement that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity
Neoclassicism
a type of object which is unrolled, one arms-length at a time, to reveal paintings, poetry, and calligraphy.
handscroll
the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light either electronically or chemically
photography
a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.
Museum
a work of art made of different types of bird feathers
featherwork
a primordial creation period in Indigenous Australian cultures when ancestral beings are believed to have traveled across the surface of the earth
The Dreaming
a Japanese word meaning "dry garden"
karensui
a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.
daguerreotype
a collector's cabinet, or small room, that came into fashion with royalty and nobility across Europe in the 17th century.
Kunstkammer