Cubism
Picasso and Braqu fragmented the figure and other elements into geometric planes in this style
Neoclassicism
Ingres worked in this style with emphasis on clean contours, a smooth finish, and precise craftsmanship. He used emotional reserve with exotic subject matter.
Ziggurat
A temple or shrine raised on a monumental stepped base; monumental stepped structure symbolically understood as a mountain and serving as a platform for one or more temples
Sunken relief
outlines are carved into the surface and the figure is modeled within them, from the surface down
Entasis
the slight swelling or bulge built into the center of a column to make the column seem straight visually.
Hellenistic
Refers to the spread of Greek culture eastward through Asia Minor, Egypt and Mesopotamia; last phase of Greek art.
Mosai
technique of creating a design by arranging bits of colored ceramic, stone, glass or other suitable materials and fixing them into a bed of cementer plaster.
Basilica
Multipurpose long rectangular meeting hall; rectangular building with a large, open interior. Generally used for administrative and judicial purposes, the basilica was adapted for early church architecture.
Apse
The semicircular, protruding niche at one or both ends of the nave; houses the altar and may be elongated to include a choir.
Nave
The taller central space flanked by aisles. In a cruciform church, the long space flanked by aisles and leading from the entrance to the transept.
Clerestory
the topmost part of a wall, extending about flanking elements such as aisles, and set with windows to admit light; Topmost zone of the nave
Aisles
Generally, a passageway flanking a central area. In basilica or cathedral, aisles flank the nave
Transept
The extensions create a lengthwise section perpendicular to the nave; the arm of a cruciform church perpendicular to the nave; often makes the beginning of the apse.
Narthex
The arm of the walkway directly in front of the church served as an entry porch
Icon
A distinctive form of Byzantine art named after the Greek word for image, eikon; portrait of a sacred person or an image of a sacred event.
Animal style
style in European and western asian art in ancient and medieval times based in linear, stylized animal forms; often found in metalwork.
Interlace
patterns formed by intricately interwoven ribbons and bands; decoration composed of intricately intertwined strips or ribbons. Interlace was especially popular in medieval celtic and Scandinavian art.
Illuminated
furnished them with illustrations and decorations; practice of adding hand drawn illustrations and other embellishments to a manuscript.
Carolingian
Period in medieval European history dominated by the Frankish rulers of the Carolingian dynasty, roughly 750-850 CE. Also refers especially to the artisitic flowering sponsored by Charlemagne (800-840)
Ambulatory
The aisle around the apse; Latin for walkway; vaulted passageway for walking around the apse.
Embroidery
Technique in which colored yarns are sewn to an existing woven background; frequently sewing takes the form of decorative motifs or images.
Tapestries
Long woven hangings; an elaborate tectile meant to be hung from a wall and featuring images and motifs produced by various weaving techniques.
Fauvism
Matisse, on e of the artists referred to as a "wild beast" by critics, took this style to the ultimate with his frree use o fcolor without regard to subject matter.
Post Modern
this term was first used to describe architecture such as the Pompidous Center and the Team Disney Building.
Post Impressionism
These artists developed very divergent styles based on their ideas about Impressionism. Van Gough is included in this group of artists
Expressionism
This style emphasizes feelings and emotions over subject matter, Munch's Scream is an example
Futurism
Artists such as Boccioni, who worked in this style, emphasized motion as the glory of the new 20th century
Romanticism
Delacroix, in this style, which rebelled against Neoclassicism in early 19th centruy Frace, showed dynamic subject matter with free brush strokes. His subject matter was elevated with complex composition
Performance Art
In this type of artwork an artist acutally becomes part of the artwork, such as Laurie Anderson.\
Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock painted in this style also know as action painting
Color Field
Color relationships were explored by Rothko in this post WWII style
Pop Art
The artists of this movement found subject matter from the most mass-produced, mundane things of modern cultoure, siuch as Andy Warhol's "Soup Can" paintings
Minimal Art
This trend continued to explore nonrepresentational directions in art. Artists working in this style often used sculpture as their medium, but were influenced by Frank Stella in his "hard-edge"style. A very back-to-basic style.
Photorealism
Don Eddy worked in t5his style which has extremely sharp focus
Surrealism
Salvodor Dali painted in this style of painint dreamlike images
Impressionism
Individual brush strokes are high visible in this style developed in Frace by artists such as Renoir who took his painting outdoors and tried to capture a fleeting moment of time
Realism
Gustave Courbet was a leader in this style which rebelled against lofty of exotic subject matter in 19th century France
Conceptual Art
Joseph Kosuth, who worked with common things in his art like a simple folding chair, sought to rid people of the idea that art is precious or for the very wealthy, the "idea " was more important than the art in this movement. Christo's Gates would be another example.
Dada
Artists such a Picabia, who were "antiwar", bonded together to make uip this group and to protest (with their art) against any society which supported war
Happenings
In this type of art an event is stage, usually with many participant, such as the Courtyard by Allan Kaprow
Pointillism
The painting style in which color is applied in regular small touches or "points
Ready-mades
a work of art that the artist has not made but designated as art
Contructivism
Russian art movement of early 20th century was based on principles of geometric abstraction.
De Stijl
European movement in art led by Mondrain used vertical and horizontal lines and primary colors
Bauhaus
school of design founded in Germany in 1919 and stressed clean and simple lines
New York School
group of abstract expressionists lived and worked in New York during the 1940's and 1950's
Action Painting
non-representional painting style, the physical act of painting is bold and expressive
Earthworks
type of art that is created at, for, and from a natural site, by reshaping natural elements found there
Appropriation
postmodern practice where one artist reproduces an image created by another artist and it is accepted because the image is so well-known