Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Architecture
100
This is a type of drawing that may be done in preparation for a final artwork and is often used to plan composition and details.
What is a preliminary sketch?
100
A painting technique where pigments are mixed with water and applied to wet plaster, famously used in Renaissance frescoes.
What is fresco?
100
A term for a sculpture that you can see from all sides
What is sculpture-in-the-round?
100
This type of classical column has a plain, unadorned capital and is the simplest of the three orders.
What is the doric order?
200
A Renaissance artist might have used this metal-based material to make delicate, fine lines on a specially prepared surface.
What is metalpoint?
200
The painting movement that is exhibited in this work by Claude Monet
What is impressionism?
200
The process of removing material, such as chipping away stone, to create a sculpture.
What is a subtractive process?
200
A structural system in which horizontal elements are supported by two vertical posts, commonly seen in Greek temples.
What is post-and-lintel construction?
300
This dry medium comes in compressed sticks and is often used for its rich, dark lines, but it smudges easily.
What is charcoal?
300
This painting medium, popularized in the 20th century, uses synthetic resins and dries quickly with a plastic-like finish.
What is acrylic?
300
The process used to create this David
What is casting?
300
This term refers to a church layout that is longer than it is wide, featuring a central nave with side aisles.
What is a basilica plan?
400
The medium used to create this drawing
What is charcoal?
400
The primary subject of a lot of Pop Art
What is mass media, pop culture, and consumerism?
400
Ancient civilization whose sculpture is categorized by rigidity, symbolism, and idealized figures
What is ancient Egypt?
400
The combination of two barrel vaults at a perpendicular intersection
What is a groin vault?
500
The oldest ink medium dating back to the 3rd millennium BC
What is China/India Ink
500
The French word for painting outdoors; a technique popularized by impressionist painters
what is en plein air?
500
Renaissance technique used to make figural sculptures appear more lifelike and less rigid
What is contrapassto?
500
This era of architecture is characterized by symmetry, balance, and proportion.
What is Renaissance?
600
This artist is known for their notebooks full of sketches, studies, and inventions; numbering over 13,000 pages
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
600
This painting technique was primarily used by Jackson Pollock and often involves the splattering of paint across a canvas
What is action painting?
600
When the content and meaning of the work is inextricably bound to its location
What is site-specificity?
600
A key feature of Gothic architecture, this external support structure channels weight away from a building, allowing for taller walls and larger windows.
What is a flying buttress?