Lesson 4 Flashcards
considered to be a person with the talent and the skills is to conceptualize and make creative works. Such persons are singled out and prized for their artistic and original ideas.
ARTIST
dedicated only to the creative side,
making visualy pleasing work only for the enjoyment and appreciation of the viewer, but
with no functional value
Artist
is essentially a manual worker who
makes items with his or her hands, and who through skill, experience and talent can create things of great beauty as well as being functional
Artisan
- a skilled worker, but not the inventor of the original idea
or form. - can also be someone who creates his own designs but does not work in art forms or with materials traditionally associated with the so-called fine arts, such as painting and sculpture.
Artisan or Craftsperson
is the material used by an artist to express his/her feelings or
thoughts.
Medium
he medium of arts is classified into:
Visual arts and Auditory arts
Arts whose mediums that can be seen and which occupy space.
Visual arts
The dimensional art or two-dimensional arts includes?
Drawing, printmaking, and photography
The three-dimensional arts (3D) which include
Sculpture, architecture, landscape, industrial design
Arts whose mediums can be heard and which are expressed
in time.
Auditory Arts
the manner in which the artist controls his medium to achieve the
desired effect and the ability which he fulfil is the technical requirements of his particular work of art.
Technique
- medium for the powdered color is
hot wax which is painted onto a wood surface with a brush. - It is then smoothed with a metal instrument resembling a spoon, and then blended and set over a
flame to soften and set the colors into the wood.
Encaustic
In the dry plaster technique, pigments are usually mixed with water, although other substances might also be used. The paint
is then applied to a dry plaster wall which has been wetted down with water. Since the plaster is relatively
dry, it is non-absorbent, and the pigment adheres to the
surface of the plaster.
Fresco Secco
also known as “Buon Fresco” or True Fresco, which entails painting on freshly spread, moist plaster.
Fresco
In this method, the pigment is mixed with egg yolk or both the yolk and white of an egg. It is thinned with water and applied to a gesso ground (plaster mixed with a binding) on a
panel.
Egg tempera
The design is created by small pieces of colored glass, stone, or ceramic (caled Tesserae)
Mosaic
Prior to the 15th century these were thick and hard to control, so they were initially used
only for utilitarian purposes.
oil paint
Powdered pigments are mixed with gum-arabic or a similar substance that will help them
adhere to a surface.
Water color
are artificial compounds
developed in the twentieth century. The binder used
includes water, and the paints can be thinned with
water, but once the paints dry, they have a glossy,
permanent surface that resembles the surface created
by oils.
Acrylic
In this technique photographs, news clippings or other objects are pasted on the painting surface and may be combined with painted areas. The cuttings and objects may be selected for their associative or representational values, or for the formal and
textural qualities of the result.
Collage
Collage came from what French Verb?
Coller meaning to paste
The materials and methods of
drawing are the most basic tools of the artist and the designer.
Drawing