Art Appreciation Test 2

Front 1

Topography

Back 1

Distinct landscape characteristics of the building site

Front 2

Post and lintel

Back 2

First form of artitecture

Front 3

Tensile Strength

Back 3

Ability of a building material to span horizontally without support and without buckling

Front 4

Entasis

Back 4

Slight bulge in a column

Front 5

Doric Capitals

Back 5

Square on top of a column

Front 6

Ionic Capital

Back 6

Scroll shape on top of a column

Front 7

Corinthian Capital

Back 7

Flowers on top of a column

Front 8

Pediment

Back 8

Triangle section of a roof that is supported by columns

Front 9

Voussoirs

Back 9

Wedge shaped stone creates the arm of an arch

Front 10

Key stone

Back 10

Top piece of arc that holds the arc together

Front 11

Barrel Vault

Back 11

Several "arches" combined together to form a tunnel

Front 12

Cast Iron

Back 12

Mixing carbon with iron makes for a more durable structure

Front 13

Tempera

Back 13

Permenant fast drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed withstand water soluble binder medium(egg yolks)

Front 14

Fresco

Back 14

Painting done rapidly in watercolor on a wet plaster on a wall or ceiling

Front 15

Oil

Back 15

Painting, dries slowly and uses natural oils

Front 16

Water color

Back 16

Transparent, water is the vehicle not oil.

Front 17

Mix media

Back 17

To works of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media

Front 18

Mimesis

Back 18

Works of art with correspondence y the physical world understood as a model for beauty, truth and good

Front 19

Solvent

Back 19

Able to dissolve other substances

Front 20

Support

Back 20

The actual material or surface on which a painting is created

Front 21

Additive process of sculpture

Back 21

Adding material

Front 22

Subtractive process of sculpting

Back 22

Removing material

Front 23

Low vs. High relief sculpture

Back 23

How far it is carved out from the background

Front 24

Contrapposto

Back 24

Human Figure with weight on one foot so it's body twists on a axis

Front 25

Installation

Back 25

3D works that are often sight specific

Front 26

Assemblage

Back 26

Assembling objects in a unique way

Front 27

Earth works

Back 27

Earth and the art are connected

Front 28

Preformance art

Back 28

Art with a prefomance.... poem....

Front 29

Wash

Back 29

Semi transparent layer, diluted

Front 30

Cartoon

Back 30

Prepainting drawing

Front 31

Heightening

Back 31

To raise in degree, intensify

Front 32

Pastels

Back 32

Crayon made with powedered pigments

Front 33

Charcoal

Back 33

a porous black solid, consisting of an amorphous form of carbon, obtained as a residue when wood, bone, or other organic matter is heated in the absence of air