Vocabulary Review Bust a sculpture of a persons

Vocabulary Review

Bust: a sculpture of a person's head, shoulders, and chest. Ancestor bust. >> Define Verism. >>>describe the bust using artistic vocabulary.

Engraving: the process or art of cutting or carving a design on a hard surface, The ______were a culture in West Africa modern day_______. Carvings on face reresent______

Ceramic: of or relating to the manufacture of any product (such as earthenware, porcelain, or brick) made essentially from a nonmetallic mineral (such as clay) by firing at a high temperature Describe what is happening in this Sarcophagus. When was the sarcophagus made and by what group of people?

Define Contrapposto:

Contour Line: a contour line is a line which defines a form or an edge. It is, essentially, the outline or silhouette of a given object or figure. Name some earth pigments: Overlapping animals painted at different times? What did our ancient ancestors mostly depicted in these caves? >France

Drapery: the depiction of folds of cloth in sculpture or painting. Name: Medium: How were Etruscan temples different from Greek temples?

Elongated: unusually long in relation to its width. >>>abstraction >>>elongated >>>representational Name: Medium:

Define Emphasis: What is the object? What is happening at the top?

Exaggerated: enlarged or altered beyond normal proportions Name: Medium: >>How is this sculpture exaggerated? >>What could it have been used as?

Features: a distinctive attribute or aspect of something. This is a detail from the _______Army found in the tomb of _______ >Terracotta

Fresco: a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.

Bon Fresco: Italian for true fresco, is a fresco painting technique in which alkaline-resistant pigments, ground in water, are applied to wet plaster. It is distinguished from the fresco-secco (or a secco) and finto fresco techniques, in which paints are applied to dried plaster.

Form: a three-dimensional object in space. Explain how Akhenaten has a more rounded forms, compared to the statues we find the Giza complex. >>>Akhenaten's political capital was?

Frieze: a decorative band, usually, but not always, above a door frame or on the wall near the ceiling. This was made for? ? ? The Frieze depicts the _____wars.

Frontal: the representation of the front view of figures or objects in a work of art. the organization of planes parallel to the picture plane in the pictorial arts, or the composition of volumes entirely from the front view in sculpture Name: Medium:

Glaze: overlay or cover (food, fabric, etc. ) with a smooth, shiny coating or finish. >>>>>Celadon wares

Hallow Cast: Hollow cast. Also known as slush cast, whereby molten lead alloy is poured into mold, which is then inverted leaving a thin layer of cooling metal adhering to its surface This is an original Greek_____ sculpture Most likely depicting ________

High relief: is where in general more than half the mass of the sculpted figure projects from the background. Who is represented in the middle of the high relief sculpture? >>>goddess of war

Idealized: regard or represent as perfect or better than in reality. Who is this? How is it idealized >>propaganda

Inlaid: set into a surface in a decorative design Materials are: Inlaid_____ Over _______ >>>>King Tutankhamun

Landscape: a painting representing a view of countryside. Explains the main themes that we find in Chinese Brush paintings. What type of scroll do you think this is painted on?

Mandorla: a pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art. Also called vesica piscis. >>>>>Light during the Byzantine.

Monolithic: formed of a single large block of stone. Where was the sculpture found? Who does it represent?

Mosaic: a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass. >>>Emperor >>>Church >>>army

Negative space: is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Drama? What's happening? >>>>>Roman copy

Oculus: a round or eye-like opening or design. A circular window. >>>dome Who commissioned it?

Define Picture Scroll Story of Genji Written by? Describe the lives of the Heian women.

Pigment: color (something) with or as if with pigment.

Portrait: a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders. What is used as a binder for Encaustic painting? Roman, Greek and Egyptian

Profile

Relief: relief in which forms and figures stand out from the background to half or more than half of their natural depth. Who is the focus of the sculpture?

Representational: relating to or denoting art which aims to depict the physical appearance of things. Contrasted with abstract. Define Pathos: Name Medium:

Realism:

Registers: a register is a horizontal level in a work that consists of several levels arranged one above the other, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines. War side? Piece side?

Rigid: unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible. How are Kouros Generic? How is this kouros figure stylized? Define Kouros:

Stele: upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building. What is it? What is being depicted at the top?

Stylized: depict or treat in a mannered and nonrealistic style.

Symmetry: correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing

Symbolic: the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. What do the sheep Symbolize?

Vessel How were these vessels made? >>Terracotta >>Flame ware Japan

Weight: Visual weight is the ability of a region or art element within a composition to draw attention to itself.

Foreground, Background, middleground Name: Medium: Describe what is being depicted.

Colossal: extremely large. West Mexico: Colossal head, La Venta, Olmec 900 -400 BCE 9 feet 4 inches Colossal Basalt heads weighing about 10 tons. Standing about 6 to 10 feet tall. More than a dozen have been discovered in other regions close by. They are believed to be portraits of rulers, rather than of Gods.

Mediums used: Basalt, Limestone, sandstone

Mural: a painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall

Mural Painting of the Teotihuacan Depiction of deities, ritual activities, bloodletting and processions f priest, warriors and even animals. Pigments applied to smooth lime plaster coated with clay. Depicts an earth nature goddess wearing a bird mask.

Burial mask, from pont hope, Alaska, Ipiutak, ivory.