Galicia PAU History of Art cheat sheet
Galicia PAU History of Art · Keep the key ideas within reach.
Techniques, Materials, Terminology, and Formal Analysis
Painting media: fresco (buon fresco on wet lime, secco on dry), tempera (egg yolk binder), oil (linseed/walnut, slow drying, glazing), watercolor, gouache, acrylic, encaustic (wax, heat-fused).
Drawing and print: charcoal, graphite, silverpoint, sanguine, ink; relief (woodcut, linocut), intaglio (engraving, etching, drypoint, mezzotint, aquatint), planographic (lithography, screenprint/monotype).
Sculpture: subtractive (carving stone, wood) vs. additive (modeling clay, wax, plaster); casting (lost-wax, sand casting); assemblage, construction, readymade; relief types (bas, haut, sunken).
Architecture analysis: plan (longitudinal, central), elevation, section, bay, module, proportion; structural systems (post-and-lintel, arcuated, vault, dome, truss, cantilever, shell, tensile).
Formal analysis vocabulary: line, shape, form, value, color (hue, value, saturation), texture, space (shallow/deep), mass, volume, scale, proportion, rhythm, balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial), emphasis, unity, variety.
Color theory: primary/secondary/tertiary, complementary, analogous, warm/cool, simultaneous contrast, afterimage; additive (light) vs. subtractive (pigment) mixing.
Conservation and display: patina, craquelure, pentimento, provenance, iconography vs. iconology (Panofsky's three levels), connoisseurship, attribution, condition report, museum lighting limits (approx. 50 lux for works on paper).