AP Art History Vocab Flashcards
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| 14945579399 | Value Contrast | The relationship between areas of dark and light |  | 0 |
| 14945582312 | Radial Balance | Everything radiates outward from a central point |  | 1 |
| 14945585206 | Organic Shapes | Shapes that are found in nature |  | 2 |
| 14945599319 | Composite pose (twisted perspective) | Combining different viewpoints within a single representation |  | 3 |
| 14945608789 | Foreshortening | a visual effect in which an object is shortened and turned deeper into the picture plane to give the effect of receding in space |  | 4 |
| 14945632239 | musculature | The system or arrangement of muscles on a body |  | 5 |
| 14946179732 | stylized | art that represents objects in an exaggerated way to emphasize certain aspects of the object |  | 6 |
| 14946208756 | pictograph | A picture or drawing representing words or ideas |  | 7 |
| 14946214303 | mortice and tenon | A method of fastening one piece of wood to another. A mortice or square hole is cut into one piece of wood while a tenon or projection the same size as the hole is cut on the end of the other piece. The tenon is then tapped into the mortice, locking the two together without nails. |  | 8 |
| 14946227083 | monolitic | massive and rigidly uniform |  | 9 |
| 14946230721 | Trilithon | a pair of monoliths topped with a lintel |  | 10 |
| 14946233191 | megalith | huge stone |  | 11 |
| 14963097439 | Bifurcated | Divided into two | 12 |