Anjali Padmanaban

Vocab #8:

Calotype: an early negative-positive photographic process, patented by William Henry Talbot in 1841, in which a paper            negative is produced and then used to make a positive contact print in sunlight

 

                

Camera Obscura- a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a            screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography

 

Daguerreotype: an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a

             

Daguerreotype: an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surfacesensitized with iodine was  developed by exposure to mercury vapor

 

Photogram- a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light

 

Ruckenfigur- to describe a viewpoint that includes another person seen from behind, viewing a scene spread out before the viewer

 

School (Group of Artists)- a school devoted to art

 

The Sublime- an elevated or lofty bearing

 

Avant-Garde- the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works arecharacterized chiefly by  unorthodox and experimental methods

 

Japonisme- is the influence of the Japanese art, culture, and aesthetics. The term is used particularly to refer to Japanese influence on European art, especially in impressionism

 

Lithography-             the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, withsome greasy or oily  substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing

 

Modernism-  a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergencefrom the past in the arts and literature occurring especially in the course of the 20th century andtaking form in any of various innovative movements and styles

      

Plein-air-  the quality of light and atmosphere out of doors, especially this quality as rendered in painting

 

Pointillism- a   theory and technique developed by the neo-impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dotsof pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed into the resulting hue, as green, by the viewer

 

Positivism- the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance

                        

Primitive or Naïve-  of or pertaining to a preliterate or tribal people having cultural or physical similaritieswith their early ancestors: no longer in  technical use

 

Skeleton (Building)- a supporting framework, as of a leaf, building, or ship

 

Zoopraxiscope- an early type of motion-picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which the images weredrawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotatingopaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source was used.