Art history 3

lithography

A lithograph is a print made by drawing on limestone with wax crayons, applying ink onto the stone and printing the image onto paper.

assemblage

Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium.

japonisme

Japonism (from the French Japonisme, first used in 1872) is the influence of Japanese art, fashion and aesthetics on Western culture. The term is used particularly to refer to Japanese influence on European art, especially in impressionism.

slice of life

Slice of life is a phrase describing the use of mundane realism depicting everyday experiences in art and entertainment

cantilever

a long projecting beam or girder fixed at only one end, used chiefly in bridge construction.

broken color

a patchwork effect of individual brushstrokes of color without blending Broken color was incorporated into the Impressionists' paintings during the 19th century in French painting. The color was painted on a canvas using small short strokes (versus the normal method of carefully blending the tones and colors together. The result was a "patchwork" appearance in which the strokes gave the visual effect of light falling over the planes and forms of objects and figures. Today broken color continues to be used popularly in paintings.

avant-garde

new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Travelers in the Snow at Oi, late 1830s

• Travel series, conveying a sense of weather and seasons • Minimalist color conveys coldness, enhanced by stark, geometric shapes • Flattened space, flat areas of color, simple texture to convey detail