Art Material Flashcards
It is used to produce a work; the properties, qualities, capabilities, and limitations of materials shape the final look of a work of visual art.
Art Materials
It is a hue of brown that was named after Sienna, Italy, where it was found.
Sienna
It came from oxidized copper
Green
It came from cinnabar, an ore containing mercury.
Red
It came from lead oxide.
White
It came from rust.
Brown
It was the expensive pigment because it was made from lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone and was sourced only on Afghanistan.
Blue
It is known as royal or imperial purple and was extracted from the murex sea snail.
Tyrian Purple
A decorative cloth, meaning nails, covered the stitches that joined the narrow cloth used to make the tunic.
Clavi
It is a liquid into which the pigment is ground and when dry holds a pigment to a support or the surface being painted.
Binder
2 supports that is used in Philippine-Spanish colonial art for miniatures
- Ivory
2. Copper Sheets
It is used as binder for dyeing textile.
Mordant
3 salts of metals that is used as mordants
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Tin
3 of the oldest media
- Fresco
- Tempera
- Encaustic
It is a water where pigments are suspended and then applied to a wet plaster.
Fresco
It uses egg yolk and water as a binder and its traditional support is a wooden panel covered with a smooth layer of gesso, a mixture of glue, lime, and water.
Tempera
It is where the pigments are mixed with melted beeswax and the mixture is applied to a board or wooden surface.
Encaustic
It uses oil as a binder, usually a linseed oil, walnut oil, and other plant-based oil.
Oil
It is a fine network of cracks by a coat of varnish that is visible upon a close examination because of capturing dust.
Craquelure
These are wash pigments suspended in gum Arabic, a natural glue.
Watercolor Aquarelle
It uses a soluble, synthetic plastic polymer, which dries as a flexible film.
Acrylic
It is a variety of acrylic ground in an acrylic resin and invented by Leonard Bocour in 1947.
Magna
It is an another innovation that is recently introduced to the Philippines
Water-soluble oil paint/Water miscible/Water mixable oil
It is a process of making multiples or copies of one image.
Printing
It is a Japanese print that means, “images of the floating world”.
Ukiyo-e
A German printer in 1400s that modified the press by using cast metal fonts that could be rearranged.
Johannes Gutenberg
It is a process of printing with a copper plate or sheet that was derived from the Italian meaning “to engrave or cut into”.
Intaglio
It is a way to cut into the plate or sheet that uses a thin, pointed, needlelike tool.
Drypoint
It is a variety of drypoint and a tonal method that does not employ line, cross-hatching, or stipple.
Mezzotint
Example of mezzotint
Ludwig von Siegen, “Amelia Elizabeth, Countess of Hesse” (1642)
It is done using acid where the plate is coated with a ground or protective layer.
Etching
It is a variation of etching where fine grains of resin are attached to the metal plate by shaking resin powder through a fine sieve over the area being covered.
Aquatint
It was invented by Alois Senefelder in Bavaria in 1796. It works on the principle that water and oil repel each other.
Lithography
A slab of polished limestone that is used in Lithography and considered best because of its fine texture.
Bavarian Lime
It is a technical term for a printing.
Pulled
Greek word and meaning of Lithography
lithos, capturing the delicacy of a drawing
They produced colored prints not just on paper but on board and metal.
Large Lithographic Presses
It is also known as silk screening printing or serigraphy and is done by attaching a stencil on a fabric mesh stretched over a wooden frame, forming a screen.
Screen Printing
An American pop artist known for serigraphs of soup cans and soup pads.
Andy Warhol
An association in the Philippines that promoted the printmaking as fine art in 1969.
Philippine Association of Printmakers (PAP)
7 PAP’s first officers
- Adiel Arevalo
- Ivi Avellana-Cosio
- Lamberto Hechanova
- Mila Engage
- Aurora Calaguas
- Imelda Nakpil
- Brenda Fajardo
It is a three-dimensional art medium that has width, height, and depth.
Sculpture
It can also be used at a stage when the sculpture is being planned.
Clay
It also known as wax model that is made of the final sculpture.
Scaled-down Clay Model
It is the model that is made by the sculptor for working out ideas or for presentation to a patron before proceeding to the final work.
Maquette
4 technology-based media
- Photography
- Film
- Video
- Digital Images
It is when a light-sensitive surface that could record images projected to it by a lens.
Photography
A process invented by Louis Daguerre in 1830s.
Daguerrotype
The first movie projector invented by Eadweard Muybridge in 1879 that first projected images of a galloping horse.
Zoopraxiscope
The inventors of the projectors we know today.
Lumiere Brothers- Louis and Auguste
An American inventor that perfected the film strip, which was manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company and facilitated filmmaking.
George Eastman
