Basque PAU Art Foundations cheat sheet

Artistic foundations: visual language, history, materials, images and interpretation

• Doric/Ionic/Corinthian orders must be described by capital, base and frieze, not just by 'style'.

• Early Christian basilica = atrium, narthex, nave, aisles, apse, transept, timber roof.

• Brunelleschi dome 1420-1436: double shell, herringbone brick, no centring.

• Tenebrism = darkness with a single raking light source; Caravaggio's signature device.

• Neoclassicism: firm contour, moral example, antique sources - David and Canova.

• Fauvism 1905: colour autonomous from local tone; Salon d'Automne label.

• Mezquita: hypostyle hall, reused columns, double-tier horseshoe arches

• Formal elements: line, color, space, composition, light, viewpoint

• Itten's seven colour contrasts: hue, light–dark, cold–warm, complementary, simultaneous, saturation, quantity

• Open with supplied catalogue facts; mark missing authors, dates and dimensions as unknown.

• Buon fresco binds pigment through lime carbonation; giornata marks one day's work

• Exposure combines aperture, shutter speed and ISO.

• Separate observed form, documented context and interpretation.

• Artistic status, beauty and historical significance are different questions.