March 2017 – AIDCSC

Art Through Ages – Words Art Historian use Part 3

Carving and Casting Sculptural technique falls into two basic categories, subtractive and additive. Carving is a subtractive technique. The final

Foreshortening Artists also represent single figures in space in varying ways. When the Flemish artist Peter PaulrubenS (1577–1640) painted Lion

Color Light reveals all colors. Light in the world of the painter and other artists differs from natural light. Natural

As in all fields of study, art history has its own specialized vocabulary consisting of hundreds of words, but certain

Who Made It? If Ben Shahn had not signed his painting of Sacco and Vanzetti, an art historian could still

Another major concern of art historians is, of course, subject matter. Some artworks, such as modern abstract paintings (Fig 1)

Defining artistic style is one of the key elements of art historical inquiry, although the analysis of artworks solely in

In the early years of animation, picture editors handled many of the tasks now handled by sound editors. Recently, we

Sound effects (SFX) are subdivided into a variety of elements (units), including hard effects, soft effects, Foley, and ambience. Hard

Art historians study the visual and tangible objects humans make and the structures humans build. Beginning with the earliest Greco-Roman