Art Vocab Alphabet

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STARTS WITH A

Created in WW2 and has a faster drying rate

Aerial perspective

Acrylic

STARTS WITH B

Tool used to make engravings; cuts lines into a metal plate of copper or zinc

Burin

Brass Manillas

STARTS WITH C

Created in a dark room with a small hole in the wall to project an image inside

Collage

Camera Obsurca

STARTS WITH D

Used to create traditional Chinese ceramics

Dragon Kiln

Daguerreotype

STARTS WITH E

Painting outdoors to capture natural landscapes

Encaustic

En plein air

STARTS WITH F

Merging layers of colored glass

Flashing

Fresco

STARTS WITH G

White paint mixture used to prime the rough surface of a canvas before it is painted

Glaziers

Gesso

STARTS WITH H

the purposefully unrealistic rendering of figures in a narrative scene to emphasize a single figure's prominence, commonly Christ

Horizon line

Hierarchic scale

STARTS WITH I

thickly laying paint onto the canvas so that it stands out from the surface

intarsia

impasto

STARTS WITH J

positioning items in the image area side by side or next to one another to illustrate some comparison

joint-placed

juxtaposition

STARTS WITH K

an oven or furnace burning, baking, or drying, especially for firing pottery or ceramic

Kern

Kiln

STARTS WITH L

a method of making metal sculpture using a clay core and wax coating placed in a mold

Lost-wax casting

Lunette

STARTS WITH M

In Philadelphia, this artist worked with painter Thomas Eakins and produced Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movementsst

Moses Williams

Eadwaerd Muybridge

STARTS WITH N

The first cathedral to use flying buttresses

Nova Lux

Notre Dame

STARTS WITH O

A diagonal line drawn from the edges of the picture to the vanishing point

Orthagonal

Oculus

STARTS WITH P

Triangular gables placed above the horizontal lintel of a doorframe

porticos

pediments

STARTS WITH Q

Ornamental form or design which has four lobes or foils commonly found in architecture. It resembles a four-petaled flower

quartrefoil

quadrant vault

STARTS WITH R

an elaborately ornamental late Baroque style of decoration prevalent in eighteenth-century Europe; notable for excess, sinuous lines, pastel colors, and gilt furniture

Renaissance

Rococo

STARTS WITH S

In addition to hatching and crosshatching, which technique can be used as a shading technique?

Saturating

Stippling

STARTS WITH T

The Pantheon was originally built as a

Theatre

Temple

STARTS WITH U

in ceramics, the process wherein pigment (historically usually cobalt) is painted directly onto the surface of a porcelain vessel before a thick clear glaze is applied over the top and the vessel is fired

unfired

underglaze

STARTS WITHV

French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting during the Rococo and Neoclassical Periods

Velázquez

Vigée Le Brun

STARTS WITH W

Which technology replaced the daguerreotype by the mid-nineteenth century?

Woodcut

Wet-Plate

STARTS WITH (e)X

Art from the Old Stone Age often featured __________ female features

Extra Small

Exaggerated

STARTS WITH Y

What is the complementary color of purple?

Yellow-Orange

Yellow

STARTS WITH Z

Device conceived by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879. It made waves at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

Zipper Lens

Zoopraxioscope

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