Exam 2 Flashcards
What are the purposes of drawing?
Personal notation
Preliminary sketch
What it is intended to be
What are the componets of paint?
Pigment -
Binder - What holds pigment together
Vehicle - What spreads the pigment
What are the different types of painting and who used them?
Fresco Secco - Egypt Tempera - Egg yolk to bind pigments Oil - On panel Encaustic - Pigment bound with wax Watercolor - Gouache - Like watercolor but opaque Collage - to paste together
What is impasto?
Thick build up of paint
Who and where was oil paint first used?
Jan Van Eyck and Roger van der Weyden
Netherlands
What is chiaroscuro?
Treatment of light and shading
What is sfumato?
the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms
Who did the portraits on the walls?
Jim Dine
What is a relief printmaking?
Image protrudes from the surface
Woodcut or linoleum cut
What is an intaglio printmaking?
Image incised into surface
What is a planographic printmaking?
Image on the surface plane
What is the edition?
Number of prints made
What is the difference between a print and a reproduction?
A print was made by the artist themselves
Who was Albrecht Durer?
First commercial artist
Relief and intaglio printmaking
Who is Toulouse Lautrec?
Used printmaking for advertising
Who is Robert Rauschenberg?
Made collages
What are the four components of graphic design?
Type - font
Symbolism
Illustration
Photo/ film
Define the root word of photography
Photo - sun
Graphos - writing
When was photography invented?
1825 - 1839
Where and who invented photography?
Louis Daguerre and Joseph Niepce
Paris
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
Brought photography to U.S.
Who is Matthew Brady?
First American to use photos to chronicle history
Who is Dorothea Lange?
Migrant mother picture
Who is Alfred Stieglitz?
Modern art promoter
What are the two types of sculpture?
Relief
Freestanding
What is materials + technology?
Mass vs Space = technology
Domestic vs public = materials
What are the three components of architecture?
Form
Function
Aesthetics
What is a basilica?
Roman lawcourt
What is classical style?
Sense of proportions
Symmetrical balance
Measured harmony
Geometric calrity
What are the different structural devices and when were they used?
Stacking and piling - pyramids Post and lintel - stone hedge, greece The arch - Romans Balloon Frame - houses Steel Frame - modern buildings
What is the parthenon?
Greek temple for athena
What is the pantheon?
Roman building for gods
What is the wainwright building?
Building built with steel built by louis sullivan
