Summer 2012

Hillary Barrow

Logogram

A graphic used to represent a word or phrase. They are visual symbols.

Ampersand

A popular symbol used to represent the word “and.”

Greek (Geometric)

A part of Greek art to show geometric images used mostly on vases.

Low Relief

Relief simply means the object has been carved in order to look as if it were raised. Low relief just means it is only slightly raised.

Flourishes

A characteristic of Rococo. Typography used flourishes as a design also known as swashes.

Hieratic Scale

The use of different sizes for figures to show the level of importance. The largest figure usually showing the most importance.

Rococo

Originated in France and formed from the Baroque style. It is used in many different forms of art.

Tenebrism

Art that uses a more dramatic chiaroscoro. The dark and light settings become the main idea of the art.

Rebus

Allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words in a symbolic form to create a sound or saying.

Drop Cap

A visual effect on the first initial. The first initial of the paragraph appears larger than the rest of the text.

Information Graphics

Graphics used to inform a subject about an object. They are a visual representation of data.

Carpet Page

Characteristic of an illuminated manuscript. A full page of design used mostly in religious books.

Ligature

Ligature is used when two or more letters are joined together in order to create one glyph.

Calligraphy

It’s a fancy type of lettering. Today we have many different fonts to choose from where as long ago they didn’t have many choices.

Stained

Glass

Glass painted in a design to create a bigger image. Used widely in churches to depict images from the bible.

Woodcut

Printers would cut an image into a block of wood and with ink they would use it in the same way we would use a rubber stamp today.

Arabesque

A design used in the Renaissance and is still being used today. The design has a flow about it that usually form repetitive shapes.

Forshortening

In order to give the image the perspective of a different angle the body is shortened and scrunched. In these pictures if they drew the legs all the way out it would look distorted and not natural.

Fleurons

Flower-like design used for different types of art. It is very popular now for invitation designs for all kinds of special events.

Rune

Stone

Known mostly from the Viking ages these stones were usually put in place to memorialize the decease. They had symbols or runic inscriptions on them.

Pointed

Arch

One of the many things Gothic Architecture gave us was the pointed arch. It’s point is located on the top of the arch.