Organic
—having forms & shapes derived from living organisms

Classical
—artwork from ancient Greece & Rome

Still life
—a scene of inanimate objects (fruits, flowers or motionless animals)

Salon
—official annual exhibition of French painting, first held in 1667

Engraving (engraver)
—a printmaking technique where the artist gouges/scratches the image into the surface of the printing plate

Print
—a picture reproduced on paper, often in multiple copies

Oculus
—a round opening at the center of a dome

Romanticism
—movement in 19th century European culture, concerned with the power of imagination and great valuing intense feeling

Sublime
—the feeling of awe/terror, provoked by experience or limitless nature & the awareness of the smallness of an individual

Realism
—19th century artistic style that aimed to depict nature & everyday subjects in an unidealized manner

Illusionistic
—something made to look real by artistic skill or trickery

Shading
—the use of graduated light & dark tones to represent a 3-dimensional object in 2 dimensions

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
—English art movement formed in 1848 by painters who rejected the academic rules of art, & often painted medieval subjects in naive style

Impressionism
—a late 19th century painting style conveying the impression of the effects of light

Cropping
—trimming the edges of an image, or composing it so the part of the subject matter is cut off

Post-Impressionists
—artist from or living in France, who moved away from the impressionist style (Gauguin Seurat, Van Gogh)

Symbolism
—movement in European art & literature, conveyed the meaning by the use of powerful yet ambiguous symbols

Ground
—the surface or background onto which an artist paints or draws

Impasto
—paint applied in thick layers