Key Art Terms for BeginnersAn introduction to the key words used in discussing art and works of art. Defines the terminology of eras, styles, mediums and materials, and criticism. |
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abstract art Acrylic ancient Antoni Gaudí applied architecture Art Deco artwork Asian aspects beauty Bronze brush brushstrokes Buddhism buildings Byzantine art called carved century ceramic China create Cubism cultures Dada decorative depicted drawing dynasty Edo period Europe example eyes figures French Gallery Gothic Greek Han dynasty height human ideas illuminated manuscripts Impressionists Islamic art Keith Haring landscape light lines look marks masks materials meaning medieval mediums metal modern art murals Musée Museum of Art Museum of Modern nature objects Oil on canvas Opposite painting panel paper patterns period photographs Picasso's picture portraits postmodern art Pre-Columbian printmaking Private collection realistic refer relief relief printing religious Renaissance Roman scenes sculpture Self-Portrait sense shapes space stone style stylized surface symbols technique tends term things tion tradition ture usually viewer Vincent van Gogh visual walls watercolor Western wood York