Mediums

Question 1

List the 2D media for drawing

Answer 1

• graphite pencil
• silver point
• characoal
• chalk
• crayon
• liquid media
• pen and ink
• brush and ink

Question 2

Name the different mediums in Painting.

Answer 2

Encaustic
Fresco
Tempera
Oil
Watercolor
Gouache
Collage
Mosaic
Mixed Media

Question 3

what are the techniques for Printmaking ?

Answer 3

Stencil and screenprinting
Relief (woodcut, linocut, etc.)
Intaglio (engraving, etching, 
aquatint)
Lithography

Question 4

name the “Fine Arts” during the renaissance

Answer 4

• architecture
• sculpture
• painting/ sculpture
• music
• poetry
• The Renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.

Question 5

“Flat art” medium Hierarchy today

Answer 5

oil painting
other painting 
drawings 
prints 
photography
film 
digital media

Question 6

What are academies value?

intellectual and artist vs \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ vs emotional 
practical vs \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
\_\_\_\_\_\_ vs informal 
 representation vs \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
  \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ vs contemporary 
singular vs \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 6

• intellectual and artist vs manual skills
• rational vs emotional
• practical vs spontaneous
• formal vs informal
• representation vs abstraction
• traditional vs contemporary
• singular vs multiple

Question 7

what is the hierarchy of subject matter?

Answer 7

!. History Painting
II. Portraits
III. Genre Paintings
IV. Landscapes
(V. Animal Painting)
VI. Still-Lifes

Question 8

define genre painting

Answer 8

scenes from everyday life (people, animals, touches of still life, bits of landscape, interiors )

Question 9

define landscape painting

Answer 9

basically anything that is found in physical geography (include cityscapes, and waterscapes)

Question 10

What is Fresco? (used in painitng)

Answer 10

a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries

Question 11

Gounache (painting)

Answer 11

a method of painting using opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a gluelike substance.
Synthetics (acrylic, etc.)

Question 12

Tempera (painting)

Answer 12

a method of painting with pigments dispersed in an emulsion (water based paint) of water and egg yolk. The method was used in Europe for fine painting, mainly on wood panels, from the 12th or early 13th century until the 15th, when it began to give way to oils.

Question 13

Encaustic (painting)

Answer 13

using pigments mixed with hot wax that are burned in as an inlay

Question 14

Mixed media (painting)

Answer 14

In visual art, mixed media is an artwork in which more than one medium has been employed

Question 15

SIlver point (drawing)

Answer 15

A silverpoint drawing is made by dragging a silver rod or wire across a surface, often prepared with gesso or primer.