Terms
(ongoing list)
Day 1
art
fresco
aesthetics, beauty
form & content
style
iconography
visual literacy
icon
period/style category
representation(al)
abstract(ion)
non-objective
naturalism, realism
idealization
folk art, primitivism
pure seeing
fine arts
decorative arts, craft
genre
avant-garde
Day 2
Visual elements
point
line: actual, implied
shape,
mass
modeling
chiaroscuro,
sfumato, tenebrism
negative/positive
space
figure/ground
value, value scale
color: primary, secondary,
tertiary
hue,
value, intensity
complementary,
analogous
palette
pointillism/divisionism
simultaneous
contrast
successive
contrast
local
color – descriptive
afterimage
texture: actual, implied
space: 2-dimensional,
3-dimensional
recession
perspective
atmospheric
perspective
1-point
linear perspective
2-point
perspective
vanishing
point, horizon line
time, motion
Design Concepts &
Principles
composition
unity,
variety
rhythm,
repetition
balance
proportion
Golden
section
scale
hierarchical
scale
monumental,
miniature
thrust
dominance
subordination
Day 3: 2-D
Media & Techniques
manuscript illumination
vellum, parchment
calligraphy
mural
fresco (buon, secco)
silverpoint
ink, ink wash
hatching, cross-hatching
airbrush
pigment
binder
tempera, egg tempera casein
gesso
ground
glaze, scumble
diptych, triptych, polyptych
oil paint
watercolor
gouache
impasto
pastel
charcoal
acrylic
collage
assemblage, combine
mixed media
Day 4
paper: wove, laid
printing: relief, intaglio
woodcut engraving
linoleum block
registration
etching
soft ground, hard ground
aquatint, mezzotint
drypoint
lithography
silkscreen, serigraph
camera obscura
lens, aperture
emulsion (film)
photomontage
photogram
Day 5
sculpture, 3-dimensioanl
work
relief: low, high
in-the-round
additive
subtractive
clay
terra cotta
pottery, ceramics
kiln
glaze
lost-wax casting (cire perdu)
kinetic
earthworks
Day 6
bearing wall
post and lintel, trabeated
arch: corbelled, round, pointed
arcade, arcuated
impost, voussoir, keystone, centering
buttress, flying buttress
vault: groin, rib
frame construction
trusses
skeleton frame, balloon frame
curtain walls, screen walls
dome
geodesic dome
cantilever
concrete, reinforced concrete
deconstruction
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Day 8
decorative art
logo, logotype
illustration
craft
ceramics: earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, greenware
bisque, glaze, slip, raku
metalwork: enamel, cloisonné, champlevé, repoussé,
inlay, chasing
Art Nouveau, Art Deco
Performance art
happenings
conceptual art
minimalism
public art
censorship
Day 9
Paleolithic, Neolithic
megalith, dolmen
ziggurat
brick, mud brick, sun-dried, fired
conventions of representation
Achaemenid Persia
mastaba
rock-cut architecture
canon of proportions
naturalism, idealization
Day 10
archaic
kouros, kore
Classical, Hellenistic
red-figure/black figure
Greek orders of architecture: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
Architectural terms: podium
column: base, shaft, capital
frieze
pediment
entasis
wet drapery
caryatid
contrapposto
continuous narrative
basilica
veristic portraiture
equestrian portrait
Buddhism
Hinduism
axis mundi
circumambulation
Day11
mosaic
halo
*central plan, longitudinal plan
*Greek cross plan, Latin cross plan
nave, transept, crossing, apse
mosque: minaret, *qibla wall, niche -->Mecca
arabesque
*kufic script - Arabic calligraphy
mausoleum
"visual generosity"
*enlightenment/realization
Four Noble Truths(Buddhism):
1) All of life is suffering; 2) Suffering is caused by
desire; 3) to stop suffering, you must stop desire; 4) to stop desire, you
should follow the Eightfold Path (Right views: wisdom
based on Buddhist principles; Right way of thinking;
Right speech: elimination of lying and slander; Right conduct: following
Shakyamuni's precepts; Right livelihood: living to purify the three karma:
physical, verbal and mental; Right effort: seeking the True Law; Right
Mindfulness: being ever mindful of the correct practice toward
Enlightenment, as well as the ideal of Enlightenment;Right concentration:
meditation and focus of mind and spirit on the Buddha's wisdom.)
bodhisatttva
mudra, abhaya mudra
migration art
animal interlace
horror vacui
ambulatory
portal,tympanum
crusades, pilgrimage
altarpiece
Day13
Renaissance: Italian, Northern
Mannerism
Baroque
Rococo
aerial perspective
mathematical perspective
foreshortening
NeoPlatonism
tenebrism
painterly, linear
genre painting
still life
Day14
neoclassicism
romanticism
social protest
Realism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
pleine-air
divisionism, pointillism
expressionism
tufa
Day 15
Formalism
Cubism
Analytical Cubism
collage
primitive art
Italian Futurism
Orphism/Rayonnism
De Stijl
abstraction, non-objectivity
representational, non-representational
Expressionism
Fauvism
German Expressionism
Dada
Surrealism
automatism
fantasy art
Ashcan School
Modernism
Social Protest
Harlem Renaissance
Days 16, 17
Abstract Expressionism: Gesturalism( Action
Painting), ColorField
Hard-Edge Painting
Minimalism
Optical Art
Assemblage
direct-metal sculpture
Feminist Art
Pop Art
Conceptualism
SuperRealism, PhotoRealism
Neo-Expressionism
Environments
PostModernism