Survay OF Art
Terms
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copy deck
- A roof or ceiling of masonary constructed on the arch principle
- Vault
- representing the likeness of a reconizable human ( or animal) form
- Figurative
- A prehistoric monumnet consisting of a circle of monoliths
- Cromlech
- a rectangular burial monument in ancient egypt
- Mesatba
- In a painting and sculpture having a gerneralized or essential form with only a symbolic resemblance to natural objects
- Abstract
- A large block of stone that is in all one piece
- Monumental
- Dromos
- A road way that leads to fauls ( circle tomb)
- it was consturcted in post-and lintal system fuelation and had 2 rows of collun flaked by 2 shorter collums on either side
- Hypostyle
- A technique of painting on the plaster surface or wall or ceiling white it is still damp
- Fresco
- a prehistoric monolith staning alone or grouped with other stones
- Menhirt
- earthware or pottery decorated with brightly colored glazes ( orginally from fenza, a city in north itaily)
- Faience
- a large block of stone that is all in one piece used in megalithic structures
- monolith
- reppersenting natural objects in recaizable form
- representational
- the distortion of a representational image to conform to certian artistic conventions or to emphasize a particualr quality
- stylization
- a freestanding sculpture firgures carved or molded in 3 demensions
- sculpture in the round
- a noveral or scroll shaped disign or a monument usally containing an isporation or heloalic device a rulers name ( as in egypt ??
- cartouche
- to cut designs or letters into a hard surface with sharp int.
- incise
- tall tapering four gided pillers endingin a painted rpcalled a crossol royal status
- oblisk
- a mode of sculpture in which an image is developed outward. ( higher or low relife) or inward from a basic plane
- relife
- the representation of objects and figures accuring to stone dercods or beauty rather than real life
- idealized
- in 2 demintional art the use of value to suggest light and shawdo and thus create the effect of mass and weight . In sculpture the veration of a form by minuplating a pliable material such as clay.
- modeling
- not representing any known object in nature
- nonrepresenelairual
- a large undressed stone used in the construction of prehistoric artifacts
- megalith
- an architectual system in which upright members or posts support horizontial members or linths .
- post and lintel
- flowers that represent lower egypt
- papyrus
- written in a script espeically in egypt whose characters are pictory preresentations of objects
- hirogliphs
- windows let in small amounts of light that enhnced the effect of the surface of wall or ceilling while it is still damp
- cleresotry
- the standared egyption temple called a plynn temple arthe two massive sculping walls.
- pylon
- ka was the only one aspect of the egytion triple concept of the spirit
- ka