TERMS LIST
*  those updated for Fall 2005 will appear in green
* definitions should come from class lectures and material, from the glossary at the back of your textbook, and from the "Vocabulary of Form" webpage (link)
form & content
style
iconography
period/style category
representation(al)
abstract(ion)
non-objective
naturalism, realism
illsuionism
idealization
Visual elements
point
line: actual, implied
shape, mass
    geometric, biomorphic
modeling
value, value scale
color wheel
color: primary, secondary, tertiary
            hue, value, intensity
            complementary, analogous
            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
composition
hatching, cross-hatching
stippling
pigment
binder
charcoal
Sculpture: in-the-round, relief
 
fresco (true, dry)
tempera
panel painting
altarpiece
picture cycle or program
Old Testament, New Testament
Apocrypha
stigmata
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foreshortening
basilica
Latin Cross plan
nave, transept, crossing, aisle
modular plan
baptistery
chiaroscuro
contrapposto
continuous narrative
guild
lost-wax casting (cire perdu)
classical orders of architecture (see web page for these)
antique architectural vocabulary
triumphal arch
dome
coffers
barrel (tunnel) vaults
arcade
"realism of particulars"
intuitive perspective
iconography/symbolism
illusionism
conflated narrative
putti
portrait, portraiture

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Pre-Renaissance, Early Renaissance, High Renaissance
central plan
longitudinal plan
Latin cross plan, Greek cross plan
Orders of Architecture (see separate webpage) architectural orders.htm
barrel vault/tunnel vault
coffers
cruciform
fresco (true, dry)
sfumato
chiaroscuro
contrapposto
foreshortening
spandrels
typology
prophet
sibyl
pyramidal composition
portrait, self-portrait
sacra conversazione
glazing & scumbling
Mannerism
Reformation, Counter-Reformation
Council of Trent
Inquisition
tondo
figurata serpentinata
rustication
Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
mysticism
Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture
Palladio's Four Books of Architecture
broken Pediment
Erasmus
Martin Luther
Netherlands: Northern Netherlands, Holland, Dutch
Southern Netherlands, Flanders, Flemish
prints: woodcut, engraving
intaglio
relief printing
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coffers
rectilinear, curvilinear
trompe l'oeil
tenebrism
portrait, portraiture, self-portrait
Netherlands, Dutch
Flanders, Flemish
engraving, etching, drypoint
vanitas
genre
rococo
hôtel
Enlightenment
fête galante
French Revolution
stucco
Palladian
Neoclassical
Romantic
Revivalism
impasto
history painting
heroicism
stoicism
odalisque
colonialism
naturalism
classical form
"sublime"  landscapes
"New Eden"
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Realism
industrial age
social realism
lithograph, lithography
graphic arts
Academy, academic tradition
Salon
greenhouse/conservatory construction
avant-garde
modernism
Japanese prints
japonisme
keyhole aesthetic
fragmentary view
optics
color theory
en plein air
picture plane
Impressionist
Post-Impressionist
constructive brushwork
divisionism/pointillism
Symbolism
Nabis
expressionism
cloisonnism
aestheticism
art nouveau
dream
primitive art
art for art's sake
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Fauvism
The Bridge
The Blue Rider
collage
abstraction
Theosophy
Armory Show
Harlem Renaissance
Prairie Style
Dada
Surrealism
ready-made
mobile
regionalism
parody
Abstract Expressionism
    Gesturalism
    Color Field
New York School
Action Painting
assemblage
appropriation
Pop Art
silkscreen
BenDay dota
censorship
PhotoRealism, SuperRealism
Post-Modern
earthworks
environmental sculpture
feminism
NeoExpressionism