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Word Gallery: Chiaroscuro

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on November 10, 2011

Throughout art history, scholars have devised a special vocabulary to talk about art. These terms are very useful, but they are not always self-explanatory. Enter into the art historical word gallery, where we provide some definitions commonly used to describe artistic styles, techniques, or movements in art.

Chiaroscuro

Giorgio da Castelfranco, called Giorgione. Youth with an Arrow, ca. 1508–1510. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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Word Gallery: Impressionism

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on October 19, 2011

Throughout art history, scholars have devised a special vocabulary to talk about art. These terms are very useful, but they are not always self-explanatory. Enter into the art historical word gallery, where we provide some definitions commonly used to describe artistic styles, techniques, or movements in art.

Impressionism

Camille Pissarro. Apple Harvest, 1888. Oil on canvas. Dallas Museum of Art, Munger Fund, 1955.17.M

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Word Gallery: Granulation

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on October 12, 2011

Throughout art history, scholars have devised a special vocabulary to talk about art. These terms are very useful, but they are not always self-explanatory. Enter into the art historical word gallery, where we provide some definitions commonly used to describe artistic styles, techniques, or movements in art.

Granulation

Fibula (Pin), 625–600 BC. Italy, Etruria. Gold. California Midwinter International Exposition, through M.H. deYoung. 391. Currently on view in the Hall of Antiquities on the Lower Level at the Legion of Honor.

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Word Gallery: Still Life

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on September 29, 2011

Throughout art history, scholars have devised a special vocabulary to talk about art. These terms are very useful, but they are not always self-explanatory. So we thought we'd take you into the art historical word gallery to provide some definitions commonly used to describe artistic styles, techniques or movements in art.

Still Life

Willem Claesz. Heda (Haarlem 1594–1680 Haarlem), Still Life with Glasses and Tobacco, 1633. Oil on panel, 20 x 29 3/4 inches (50.8 x 75.6 cm). The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum

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Word Gallery: Workshop

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on September 8, 2011

Throughout art history, scholars have devised a special vocabulary to talk about art. These terms are very useful, but they are not always self-explanatory. So we thought we'd take you into the art historical word gallery to provide some definitions commonly used to describe artistic styles, techniques, or movements in art.

Workshop

Workshop of Leonard Limosin (French, 1505–1577). The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, ca. 1570. Enamel on copper. Mr. and Mrs. E. John Magnin gift. 75.18.85

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Word Gallery: Passage

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on August 30, 2011

Throughout art history, scholars have devised a special vocabulary to talk about art. These terms are very useful, but they are not always self-explanatory. So we thought we'd take you into the art historical word gallery to provide some definitions commonly used to describe artistic styles, techniques, or movements in art.

Passage

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906). Forest Interior, ca. 1898–1899. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection. 1977.4

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