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AP Art terms review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

__________________ is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane.

a)

canon

b)

caryatid

c)

corinthian

d)

contrapposto

2.

A(n) _________________ is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage ...

a)

corinthian

b)

amphora

c)

frieze

d)

mosaic

3.

__________________ is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material

a)

Relief

b)

Shaft

c)

Krater

d)

Pediment

4.

A ___________________, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the _____________ often has text, ornamentation, or both.

a)

peristyle

b)

kouros

c)

stele

d)

krater

5.

_____________________________ is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.

a)

Peristyle

b)

Fresco

c)

Forum

d)

Encaustic

6.

In visual art, _____________________ or kenophobia is the filling of the entire surface of a space or an artwork with detail.

a)

oculus

b)

triclinium

c)

encaustic

d)

horror vacui

7.

In Ancient Roman architecture, a ________________ is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's forum. These buildings would have a large axially planned building with a nave, side aisles, and apses.

a)

impluvium

b)

basilica

c)

coffer

d)

cubiculum

8.

The ________________________________________is a specific form of ____________________ composed of an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards, which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs

a)

flying buttress

b)

triclinium

c)

peristyle

d)

pediment

9.

_____________________________refers to the technique of depicting an object or human body in a picture so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space.

a)

Contrapposto

b)

Archaic smile

c)

Foreshortening

d)

Verisimilitude

10.

__________________________, or the true-to-life physical representation of objects and people, already existed in classical Greek, Hellenistic and Roman art, all of which rendered the beauty, movement and sinuosity of the human body especially palpable in their breath-taking sculptures.

a)

Spolia

b)

Hypostyle

c)

Contrapposto

d)

Verisimilitude