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Module 3 Flashcards

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Use the visual arts as their venue of expression. These includes notes to entice the painters, the sculptors and the architects.

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Visual artists

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Are more adept at writing words and arranging musical notes to entice the imagination and evoke emotions.

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Creative artists

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Performing artists express their art through execution in front of an audience. These artists are dancers, singers, stage performers, actors, musicians and choreographers.

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Performing artists

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this art form can be perceived by the eyes, its medium are those materials that can be seen and occupy space.

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Visual arts

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Which includes drawing, painting, mosaics, collage and printmaking.

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Graphic or two-dimensional arts

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Which includes sculpture, architecture and installations.

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Plastic or three-dimensional arts

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The medium for this art classification are those that the viewers can hear and which are expressed in time.

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Auditory or time arts

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The medium for these art forms are those that the viewers can see and hear which considers both time and space.

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Combined arts

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This is made of graphite which comes in different hardness from soft to hard or thickness from thick to needle-like, making possible a wide range of values.

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Pencils

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Drawing a series of thin parallel lines and criss-crossing it with another set of thin parallel lines.

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Cross-hatching

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Is using the sharp point of pencil to make dot patterns to create depth in some parts of the drawing.

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Stippling

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Is at times accomplished by using the finger or a paper stump to gradually change the tone from dark to light.

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Blending

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This is one of the oldest materials for drawing that is still in use. Ink is used in making the beautiful hand writings produced in calligraphy which in itself is an art.

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Ink

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This is composed of dry pigment held together by a gum binder and compressed into sticks.

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Pastel

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Is using pastel of different colors to produce small marks, thus creating a pattern.

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Stippling

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Is using the point of the pastel to make parallel strokes creating a feather like effect.

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Feathering

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Is like layering but using pastel.

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Scumbling

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Is the technique of thickly applying the pastel by pressing it hard on the paper creating an opaque effect.

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Impasto

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Is applying a thick deposit of pastel on the support then using a blunt pen, scrapes it off reveals the underlying color and creates the design.

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Sgrafitto

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This is the most common surface used in two dimensional art. Paper is an organic material made from wood, grass and linen rags.

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Paper.

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21
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Has been described as the art of creating beautiful effects on a flat surface.

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Painting

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For watercolor paints, the pigments are mixed with water and applied to paper.

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Watercolor

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This paint in which the pigment has been mixed with water and added with a chalk like material to give it an opaque effect.

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Gouche

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The pigments are mixed with oil as its binder. This medium was discovered by a Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck. Linseed oil.

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Oil Paints

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This is pigment mixed with egg yolk (sometimes with the white) as a binder.

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Tempera

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This pigment mixed with water and applied on a portion of the wall with wet plaster.

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Fresco

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Has the quick drying quality of watercolor and is as flexible as oil paints.

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Acrylic

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Are wall or floor decorations made of small tiles or irregularly cut pieces of colored stones or glass called tesserae.

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Mosaics

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Is derived from a French word ‘colelr’ which means to stick.

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Collage

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30
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This is a process used for making reproductions of graphic works.

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Printmaking

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This is the oldest method of printmaking.

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Relief Printing (raised)

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This technique is the opposite of relief printing; instead of using the surface of the plate for image, the lines of the image, the lines of the image are cut or incised to a metal plate.

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Intaglio Printing (Depressed)

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This includes all processes in which printing is done from a flat surface (plane).

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Surface Printing (Flat)

34
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Has originated from the Latin word ‘sculpere’ which means to carve it is defined as the art of practice of creating three-dimensional forms or figures.

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Sculpture

35
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These are sculptures which can be viewed from all sides.

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Freestanding (in the round)

36
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These are sculptures in which the figures project from a background. These are two variations of relief sculptures.

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Relief

37
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The figures are slightly raised/projected from its background, less shadows are created.

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Low relief (bas relief)

38
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Almost half of the figures project from its background, more shadows are created.

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High relief

39
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A sculpture that is capable of movement by wind, water or other forms of energy.

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Kinetic (mobiles)

40
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This process involves removing or cutting away pieces of the material to form the figure.

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Substractive process

41
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This process involves the construction of a figure by putting together bits of the material or by welding together metal parts to create figures.

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Additive process

42
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This process involves the construction of a figure by putting together bits of the material or by welding together metal parts to create figures.

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Additive process

43
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This process is also known as casting. This method involves using a mold to produce a 3d figure in another material.

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Process of Substitution

44
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Is a natural medium. It is hard and relatively permanent. Sculptures made from will lat for many years.

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Stone

45
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Is also a natural medium. When compared to stone, wood is relatively easy to work on.

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Wood

46
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This medium is used for sculpture because of its three unique qualities: tensile strength, docility and malleability.

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Metal

47
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Is also known as inox steel and chromium. This medium does not rust or stain when exposed to moisture and water.

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Stainless steel

48
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Is an alloy of two elements: tin and copper. Its color is reddish brown and will corrode if constantly exposed to water and moisture

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Bronze

49
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Specifically, Plaster of Paris is finely ground gypsum mixed with water and poured into a mold.

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Plaster

50
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Using a metal rod to gather the molten glass from the furnace and shapes it using another tool.

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Hot sculpting

51
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Is using cold hardened glass. This involves sandblasting, engraving, polishing and grinding to create the sculpture of glass.

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Cold working

52
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Is gathering the molten glass from the furnace using a blowpipe. Air is blown into the pipe and shapes the glass before it cools down.

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Glass blowing

53
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Is a synthetic medium made from organic polymers. While plastic is soft, it can be molded into a form.

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Plastic

54
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Is a synthetic medium made from organic polymers. While plastic is soft, it can be molded into a form.

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Plastic

55
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Is the art of designing buildings and other structures which will serve a definite function.

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Architecture

56
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Most houses are built on this principle.

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Post and Lintel

57
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This is a Roman invention that consists of separate pieces of wedge shaped blocks called voussoirs arranged in a semi circle.

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Arch

58
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Is a succession of arches, one placed directly behind another to produce a structure similar to a tunnel.

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Barell Voult

59
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Is a structure that is formed by intersecting arches resulting in four openings.

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Groin Vault

60
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Is a structure that is formed by intersecting arches resulting in four openings.

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Groin Vault

61
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Is structure with the shape of an inverted cup. It is formed by a series of arches rising from consecutive points on a base called the drum.

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Dome

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This is a system of triangular forms assembled to form a rigid framework. Trusses are used in bridges, theaters and roofs.

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Truss

63
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This structure makes use of a beam or slab that extends horizontally into a space beyond its supporting post.

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Cantilever

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This is a structure that is built as a support for the wall.

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Buttress

65
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Are favoured over other materials for its durability, adaptability to sculptural treatment and its use for building simple structures in its natural state.

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Stones and Bricks

66
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All parts of a building can be constructed using wood except the foundations; its major disadvantages are susceptibility to fire, mold and termites.

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Lumber (wood)

67
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The development of construction methods using iron and steel was the most important innovation in architecture since ancient times.

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Iron and steel

68
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This is a mixture of cement and water, with aggregates of sand and gravel, which hardens rapidly resulting in a fire resisting solid of great compressive strength.

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Concrete

69
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Is the art of combining spoken or written words and their meanings into forms which have artistic and emotional appeal.

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Literature

70
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All poems share similar characteristics which makes it easy for the reader to recognize them.

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Poetry

71
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This is any written work that is not real and which uses elaborate figurative language.

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Fiction

72
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This is the opposite of fiction because the subject matter comes from real life.

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Nonfiction

73
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This genre includes all plays or any written works that are meant to be performed.

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Drama

74
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It is defined as the art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch to produce compositions that express various ideas and feelings.

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Music

75
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The oldest and most popular medium for music is the human voice.

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Vocal Medium

76
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Is the highest female singing voice.

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Soprano

77
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Is a female singing voice that is low and rich in quality.

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Contra Alto

78
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Is the highest adult male singing voice.

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Tenor

79
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Is a male singing voice that is low and rich in quality.

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Bass

80
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Is a male singing voice that is between tenor and bass.

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Baritone

81
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Produce sound by blowing, beating, plucking or through the use of a bow.

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Musical instruments

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