VSA Final Exam Definitions
American Scene - ANS-Style of realism that used American imagery
American Gothic, Grant Wood (1930)
Anthropomorphic - ANS-attributing human characteristics or traits to objects, animals, or gods
Julio Gonzalez - Cactus Man I
Automatic Writing - ANS-Expressing the subconscious by way of allowing the hand to transport
randomly throughout a canvas
Painter and Model Knitting, Pablo Picasso (1930)
Biomorphic - ANS-Using shapes which might be suggestive of a living organism
Objects Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, Jean Arp (1930)
Chromolithography - ANS-A lithograph revealed in colour
Observatory Time - The Lovers, Man Ray (1930)
decalomania - ANS-When paint is squeezed among two surfaces to create a replicate photo
Europe after the Rain, Max Ernst (1940)
Grattage - ANS-Surrealist portray technique wherein a canvas is layered with oil paint over a
textured object and scraped off to create a surface
Europe after the Rain, Max Ernst (1940)
Mobile - ANS-Sculptural work fabricated from additives suspended inside the air, and move in
reaction to air flows
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, Alexander Calder (1940)
psychic automatism - ANS-Creating artwork without conscious idea
The persistence of reminiscence, Salvador Dali (1930)
Stabile - ANS-Abstract sculpture the use of motionless additives inclusive of steel rods
American Scene - ANS-Style of realism that used American imagery
American Gothic, Grant Wood (1930)
Anthropomorphic - ANS-attributing human characteristics or traits to objects, animals, or gods
Julio Gonzalez - Cactus Man I
Automatic Writing - ANS-Expressing the subconscious by way of allowing the hand to transport
randomly throughout a canvas
Painter and Model Knitting, Pablo Picasso (1930)
Biomorphic - ANS-Using shapes which might be suggestive of a living organism
Objects Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, Jean Arp (1930)
Chromolithography - ANS-A lithograph revealed in colour
Observatory Time - The Lovers, Man Ray (1930)
decalomania - ANS-When paint is squeezed among two surfaces to create a replicate photo
Europe after the Rain, Max Ernst (1940)
Grattage - ANS-Surrealist portray technique wherein a canvas is layered with oil paint over a
textured object and scraped off to create a surface
Europe after the Rain, Max Ernst (1940)
Mobile - ANS-Sculptural work fabricated from additives suspended inside the air, and move in
reaction to air flows
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, Alexander Calder (1940)
psychic automatism - ANS-Creating artwork without conscious idea
The persistence of reminiscence, Salvador Dali (1930)
Stabile - ANS-Abstract sculpture the use of motionless additives inclusive of steel rods
