Vocab

Vocab There will be a new vocab word every week.

 __court__- to be surrounded by one's disciples or admirers, giving advice, exchanging gossip, receiving compliments(almost like a clique) __victorian Age__- the 1800's, a time when Queen Victoria ruled over England  __renaissance__ - the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modernworld __stunner__-Pre-Raphaelite slang for a good looking woman __convent__-a society or association of monks, friars, or nuns: now usually use for a society of nuns __idealistic__-pertaining to the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. __spiritualist__-  a person who is concerned with or insists on the spiritual side of things  __sexism__- discrimination on the basis of sex, especially the oppression of women by men __automatic writing__-<span class="hwc" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">writing performed without apparent intent or conscious control, especially to achieve spontaneity or uncensored  expression , these writings usually occur in a seance <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">__martyr__ - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span class="hwc" style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">a <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause; a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> __retrospective__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__nudes__- art involving people that are naked/in the nude <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__abstract art__- a genre of art that breaks away from the traditional, realistic style of art, focussing more on color and distorted shapes <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__sculpture__- the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__portrait__- a likeness of a person; either drawn, painted or photographed <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__abstract expressionism__- where the artist uses color and form to show his/her feelings <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__inspiration__- something that influences the brain and convinces it to take action or do something creative <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__ambition__- the desire/urge to get work done or to achieve a goal <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__personality__- the characteristices/traits that make a person unique <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__fan art__- art created by fans of a certain subject (movie, person, book, etc.) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__cubism__- an art form that distorts a realistic object with geometric shapes and shading <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__mannerism__- an art form from the Renaissance that is complex with long, muscular figures and intricate poses <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__baroque art__- similar to mannerism but less complex in form with more realistic and emotional effects <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__photography__- a form of art where one sets up models and uses a machine to take the picture instead of drawing, painting, or sculpting it <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__camera__- a machine that takes a picture by exposing film to light <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__fauvism__- the use of bright colors and simplified forms in an artwork <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__mural__- the act of putting an artwork on a large wall(usually by paint) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__mosaic__- an artwork which one pieces together pieces of glass (or tile) to make a picture <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__neoclassical__- a form of art that is unemotional and detatched that brings back the classical forms of ancient Greece and Rome <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__romanticism__- as a reataliation against neoclassical, this artform is highly emotional, but still uses beautiful images to display this emotion <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__medium__- the specific material or type of art an artist works with (ex: clay, paint, glass, photography) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__movement__- a popular art style of a particular time (ex:neoclassical, fauvism, baroque, etc.) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__theme__- subject matter of the artwork <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__kinetic art__- art with movable parts (by hand, motor, or some other means) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__comic__- a series of drawings portraying a story (with words) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__illustration__- a work of art used in a book to help a person visualize what is happening or what something in it looks like <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__creativity__- the ability to create something unique and original <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__woodturner__- a person who, like a woodcutter, cuts wood, but does so with a special machine called a lathe