academic art
Art governed by rules, especially works sanctioned by an official institution
action painting
A style of nonrepresentational painting that relies on the physical movement of the artist by using such gestural techniques as vigorous brushwork, dipping, and pouring
apse
A semicircular end to an aisle in a BASILICA or a Christian church
art nouveau
An art movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and the US (emphasized curving, expressive lines based on organic shapes of flowers or vegetation
auroch
Bison that are extinct
automatism
Action without conscious control, such as pouring scribbling or doodling
avant-garde
From military theory that was applied to modern art, the advance guard of troops that moves ahead of the main army
basilica
A Roman town hall with three aisles and an apse at one or both ends Christian made this form for their churches
Bauhaus
German art school in existence from 1919-1933 best known for its influence on design, leadership in art education
capitals
In architecture, the top part or head of a column or pillar
catacombs
Underground burial places in ancient Rome
clerestory
Primary source of light
collage
A work by gluing various materials on a flat surface
color field
Grew out of abstract expression in which large stained or painted areas or fields of color evoke aesthetic and emotional responses
contrapposto
COUNTERPOSE counter positioning of parts of the human figure about a central vertical axis s-curve of the body
en plein air
outdoors
entasis
In classical architecture the slight swelling or bulge in the center of a column
Epic of Gilgamesh
is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature.
Hellenistic
Style of the later phase of ancient Greek art (300-100BCE) characterized by emotion drama, and interaction of sculptural forms with the surrounding space
humanism
A cultural and intellectual movement during the Renaissance, following the rediscovery of the art and literature of ancient GREEK & Rome
icons
Rounded bubbleheads: An image or SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION often with sacred significance
kore
Greek for MAIDEN a standing clothed woman
kouros
Greek for YOUTH standing nude male
Lamassu
having a human's head, a body of a bull or a lion, and bird's wings.
mosaic
Art medium in which small pieces of colored glass stone or ceramic tile called TESSERAE are embedded in a background material
nave
Tall central space of a church or cathedral usually flanked by side aisles
Palladian
relating to or denoting the neoclassical style of Andrea Palladio, in particular with reference to the phase of English architecture from c. 1715, when there was a revival of interest in Palladio and his English follower, Inigo Jones, and a reaction again
Paris Salon
A room used to entertain the wealthy
pointillism
Using tiny dots or points of color developed by French artist George Seurat in the 1880s
Pompeii
An ancient city in western Italy, south-east of Naples. The city was buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79; excavations of the site began in 1748, revealing well-preserved remains of buildings, mosaics, furniture, and the personal possessions o
portico
Porch attached to a building supported with columns
salons
An official art exhibition in France juried by members of the official French Academy
sfumato
Smoke like, blended
Pantheon
Temple of ALL gods
Shamanism
Somone who heals, magical, spiritual, and religious
Sumer
was the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and Kuwait) which is generally considered the cradle of civilization. The name comes from Akkadian, the language of the north of Mesopotamia, and means "land of the civilized kings".
tenebrism
dark, gloomy, mysterious"), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using profoundly pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark,
tessera
Bit of colored glass, ceramic tile, or stone
Pantokrater
ALL ruler
ziggurat
A rectangular or square stepped pyramid, often with a temple at its top
Classical
Greece and Rome art that flourished in the fifth century BCE(emphasized horizontal and vertical directions emphasized on balance and porportion
Archaic
the 7th-6th centuries BC in Greece,