color applied uniformly across a plane, making the image appear separate from its surroundings.
What is a solid shape?
100
The art of designing space; including everything from interior design, garden construction, and stadiums.
What is architecture?
100
This term simply means before historical documentation, and implies no value judgment on the work of art itself.
What is prehistoric?
100
The fertile soil of this geographic feature is key in allowing the development of highly specialized communities in Egypt.
What is the river Nile?
100
Objects produced in the round, possessing volume and interacting with real space.
What is sculpture?
200
The catch-all label for any unidentifiable nude female in early European scholarship.
What is a Venus?
200
Most likely constructed as a shrine, the outer two of its concentric rings has the interesting distinction of being laid out in exact accordance with the directional path of the sun at the summer solstice.
What is Stonehenge?
200
This is a common manifestation of a community's desire for continuity from one generation to the next.
What is ancestor worship?
200
Notations whereby certain images denoting various noises or words connect in various manners to suggest particular ideas.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
The interests of the artist as perceived by the audience, or why an artwork was made.
What is Intent?
300
Located in the south of France, these are considered among the most exquisite and well-preserved examples of prehistoric culture still available to modern eyes.
What are the Lascaux caves?
300
This word comes from the Latin root citizen, which means simply town dweller.
What is civilization?
300
In this cultures art it is common to see animals described in what we might refer to as "x-ray" images; a conceptual shift that has little to do with what the animal looks like, and everything to do with what the animal is understood to mean.
Who are the aborigines?
300
The precursor to the pyramids, this is an older form of burial chamber.
What is a mastaba?
300
The meanings and symbolic associations attributed to a figure or idea.
What is iconography?
400
The notion founded by Leon Baptiste Alberti suggesting that art began with the recognition of striking resemblances between everyday objects and other objects.
What is Image by Accident?
400
The discovery that nature can be controlled and manipulated; leading to earth shattering effects on the way the community was to view itself and subsequently its art.
What is Agriculture?
400
Consistent over thousands of miles and years, this practice alludes to concerns over the sanctity of, and the protection from, the spirits of the dead.
What is plastering skulls?
400
In what may be the earliest form of propaganda, this imposing structure features the Egyptian symbol for immortality.
What is the Sphinx?
400
An object or image that appears to serve no practical or obvious function, and as result the viewer is forced to consider it in terms of its own intrinsic characteristics.
What is self-referentiality?
500
This visual quality refers to the ability of line, depending on its characteristic, thickness or relative angularity, to suggest motion.
What is line speed?
500
A series of megaliths resting on posts to enclose the ring of a famous monument.
What is lintel?
500
This visual concept occurs in a satisfying and obvious manner, and is exemplified in the sculpture "Woman and child'.
What is a unified circle?
500
These ancient carvings on slate depicted conventions that are thought to have lead to the invention of hieroglyphics.
What is the palette of king Narmer?
500
Mesopotamian script derived from pictures arranged in a narrative order named after the wedge-shaped marks created by the writing styles. Ancestor of our own script, it is the logical extension of earlier two-dimensional designs.