Ap Art History Chapter One Art

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Modulation

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vary the value of something, get dark and light value  Model Form. 3-D Painting on 2-D surface.

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Registers

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A series of bands in a pictoral narrative; narrative bands where the images are stacked in strips (like reading the images)

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Schematization

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Form that’s used over and over again.

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Paleolithic

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Stone Age, Before 7,000 B.C

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Mesolithic

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“Middle” prehistoric Period

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Neolithic

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“New Stone Age” Approx 3,000 B.C

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Post and Lintel System

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A system of construction in which 2 posts support a lintel

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Twisted Perspective

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Part of a figure is seen in profile and another part of the same figure frontally.

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Sculpture in the Round

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freestanding figures carved or modeled in 3 dimensions.

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Tectiforms

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First writing

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Contour Line

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Must distinguished line of a figure, usually along the backbone

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Frescoe

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Painting on Plaster (wet or dry)

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Mortise and Tenon Join

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A piece of wood that is inserted into a corresponding hole (mortise) in Another piece of wood to form a joint.

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Cardinal Points

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North, South, East, West

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Cuneiform

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System of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia – Wedge Shaped

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Schematization

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A form that is repeated over and over again

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Scarification

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Decorative markings made with scars on the human body

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Bent Axis

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Round ramp that spirals up

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Axis Mundi

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World Pole

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Instalgio

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Graphic technique in which the design is incised, so that the impression made is a relief. Gems and stuff

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Lost Wax Method (Cire Perdue)

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Lost Wax Method – (Cire Perdue) – A bronze casting method in which a figure is modeled in wax and covered with Clay, the whole is fired melting away the wax and hardening the clay, which then becomes a mold for molten metal.

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Heraldry

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when human form is flanked by mirror image of an animal.

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Composite Figures

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Twisted Perspective

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Body Politic

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Figures of Political leaders carved in such a way to exemplify their physical characteristics

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Barrel Vault

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Masonry roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle.