Mrs. Akin’s AP Art History
Hello!
Welcome to AP Art History! During the summer please read the posted pdf called "Reading Art
History." While you read the first 14 pages, fill out the following outline - you may print it or
complete it on your computer or ipad. This outline has important art history terminology we will
use when analyzing artwork throughout the year. You will have a summer reading test on
this terminology the first day of class.
Please make sure that you complete the entire reading even if the outline does not cover it all.
ART HISTORY VOCABULARY
Chronology
Physical Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Visual Evidence
STYLE (stylistic evidence)
Period Style
Regional Style and Provenance
Personal Style
THE STORY AND NARRATIVE
Genre
Landscape
Still Life
Mythological
Religious
Historical
Iconography
Symbols
Attributes that identify figures (give the example of St. Peter)
Personifications
ATTRIBUTE – Who Made it?
School
WHO PAID FOR IT?
Patrons
WORD OF THE ART HISTORIAN
Formal Analysis
Form
Composition
Material and Tools
Technique
Line
Axis
Plane
Contour
Color
Light
Additive light
Subtractive light
Hue
Value/Tonality
Intensity/saturation
Primary Colors
Secondary Colors
Complementary Colors
Texture
Actual
Represented
Mixed Media – Collage
Space (actual vs illusionistic)
Mass and Volume
Perspective
Foreshortening
Proportion
Canons
Disproportion
Hierarchy of scale
Carving/Subtractive-Sculpture
Casting/Additive-Sculpture
Relief Sculpture
High relief
Low-relief (bas-relief)
Sunken relief
Repousse
Architectural Drawings
Plan
Lateral sections
Longitudinal sections
Elevation
cutaway