Vocabulary Assignment Part I (Due to 1 MB size restriction)

1) Monochromatic
This means that a picture is done in one color or shades of one color.
Just a picture of a parrot with a monochromatic filter run over it.
2) Iconography
This is a branch of art history that studies the identification, description, and interpretation of the content of an image.
Hans Holbein's "The Ambassadors", 1533
3) Iconology (above painting applies to this as well)
This art study is of the meaning of works through the analysis of subject matter, symbolism and imagery, style and medium, and historical context

4) Foreshortening
This is when an object is angled toward the viewer so that it give off the illusion that the object is shorter than it actually is.