AP Art History Vocabulary 1.txt

A larger mass on one side of the painting may be balanced by smaller contrasting parts on the other.

Balance is a roughly even distribution of visual weight or activity on each side of a central axis.

A figure of just the head or the head and shoulders.

The arrangement of elements in a work of art.

Blue, green, violet

The human made world. What it looks and sounds like, what people surround themselves with, what they believe and value.

The human form as a subject of art.

The volume or mass that takes up space.

A technique of painting water based pigments directly onto wet plaster.

Refers to a category such as painting or indicates subjects that have to do with ordinary people engaged in ordinary activities.

Attempting to create perfection

What the artist usesm such as clay, stone, wood, paint, etc...

The term used to distinguish one form of art from another. Such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, draweing, etc...

A painting created on a wall or ceiling. A fresco is a type of mural.

The artist is telling a story.

Representation of people alone or in groups. They may be formal or informal and they may be of young or old people.

Red, yellow, blue

A form of sculpture that is not fully 3-D. They somtimes protrude off the side of a building.

Orange, green, violet

An artist makes a picture of themselves.

A painting of inanimate objects--things that cannot move.

The act of eliminating or exaggerating details in order to portray a subject based on a stylistic pattern rather than nature.

A form of watercolor paint made from mixing pigment into a sticky base such as egg yolks.

Refers to mass having height, width, and depth. This may be created as an illusion as well.

Refers to mass only having height and width. The surface of a canvas or piece of paper, for example, is 2-D or flat.

Red, yellow, orange

The characteristics of an artwork that cause us to respond to it with feeling and emotion.