The Huntington Education Department
Scott Gallery
Primary Vocabulary List
Ash Can School
- early 20th Century painters of everyday life in New York
City
- background
- the most distant part of a scene
- bronze
- a mixture of metals (mostly copper) often used for statues
- canvas
- a heavy cloth surface on which an artist paints
- colonial
- pertains to regions settled by a group of people sent out
from their mother country to settle foreign soil; in the case
of the Scott's art works, especially to the British colonies
of North America
- copy
- a reproduction or imitation of an original
- folk art
- art works created by people without academic training in
art
- foreground
- the nearest part of a scene
- frame
- an open border for enclosing a picture
- genre (zhan'r)
- a scene of everyday life
- horizon
- the line where earth and sky meet
- Hudson River School
- a particular group of 19th century American artists who painted
the landscape of New York and New England
- Impressionism
- a school of painting begun in France in which the artist
thickly applies short brushstrokes of unmixed colors in an attempt
to capture the visual effects of lights
- landscape
- a view of natural scenery
- marble
- a hard limestone used for sculpture and architecture
- marquetry
- a French term used to describe a patterned veneer of wood
- masterpiece
- major work of any great artist
- middle distance
- the area between the foreground and the most distant part
of a scene
- miniature
- a very small portrait, frequently on ivory or copper
- monogram
- the initials of a name combined in a single design
- narrative
- a story
- neoclassical
- a revival of the artistic style of ancient Greece or of the
Roman Empire
- ormolu (ormo loo)
- a French term used to describe gilded bronze
- oil paint
- a paint made by mixing ground (powdered) color pigment into
oil
- original
- a prototype or initial work from which a copy or reproduction
is made
- painting
- a picture created with paint
- patina
- the finished surface on a piece of sculpture or furniture
- pigment
- the coloring matter used in paint
- portrait
- a likeness of a person
- regionalism
- art that deals with one specific geographical area
- school
- a group of artists with common interests
- sculpture
- a three dimensional work of art, ex., a statue
- sketch
- a simple drawing or painting, often a rough draft for a future
work
- still life
- a painting of a collection of objects usually taken from
nature (flowers, birds' nests, etc.) or from domestic settings
(glasses, foodstuffs, pipes, books, etc.)
- stretcher
- a wooden framework to which the canvas is attached
- veneer
- a thin surface layer of wood applied to furniture
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