Visual Arts History 1041A/B Final: 1041b Final Exam Notes
17 Sep 2016
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Naturalistic: a movement that aimed at accuracy and objectivity and cultivates realistic and even sordid portrayals of people and their environment. Sfumato: the technique allowing tones and colours to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms. Humanism: a cultural and intellectual movement of the renaissance that emphasized human potential to attain excellence and promoted direct study of literature, art and civilization of classical greece and rome. Impasto: a technique used in painting where paint is laid on an area of the surface very thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on canvas. Stigmata: a term used by members of the christian faith to describe body marks, sores or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the cruci xion wounds of jesus christ, such as hands, wrists and feet.
