Topic 4: The Visual Arts: A Feast for the Eyes Flashcards

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Is the application of paint, color or other medium to a surface. It is the art of creating meaningful effects on a flat surface by the use of pigments.

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Painting

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Are vegetable or mineral extracts which make up the coloring matter of paint.

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Pigment

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This is a liquid part that is mixed with the prepared pigments.

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Vehicle

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4
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What are the different types of Painting Media?

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Acrylic Paint, Encaustic, Fresco, Gouache, Magna Paint, Oil Paint, Pastel, Tempera, Watercolor

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This is a synthetic paint, with pigments dispersed in a synthetic vehicle made from polymerized acrylic acid esters, the most important of which is polymathic methacrylate.

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Acrylic Paint

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This is a medium, technique or process of painting with molten wax (mostly beeswax), resin, and pigments that are fused after application into a continuous layer and fixed to a support with head, and achieves a lustrous enamel appearance.

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Encaustic

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Is a method of painting or plaster, either dry or wet.

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Fresco

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Is a heavy, opaque watercolor paint, sometimes called body color, producing a less wet-appearing and more strongly colored picture than ordinary watercolor.

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Gouache

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Is a time of painting products made by Bocour Artists Colors, 552 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019. Magna Plastic Colors are permanent pigments ground in an acrylic resin with solvents and plasticizer. They are miscible with turpentine as well as mineral spirits.

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Magna Paint

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Is a slow drying paint made when pigments are mixed with an oil, linseed oil being most traditional. The oil dries with a hand film, and the brightness of the colors is protected. Oil paints are usually opaque and traditionally sued on canvas.

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Oil Paint

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Is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigments and a binder.

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Pastel

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Is a paint and process involving an emulsion of oil and water. it was in use before the invention of oil paints. Traditionally, it involves an egg emulsion; thus the term egg tempera.

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Tempera

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Is any paint that uses water as a solvent.

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Watercolor

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What are the three main characteristics of color?

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Hue, Value and Intensity.

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This is the name of any color as found in its pure state in the spectrum or rainbow, or that aspect of any color.

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Hue

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Refers to the brightness or darkness of a color.

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Value

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Is the brightness or dullness of a hue or color.

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Intensity

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18
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What word does sculpture originate from?

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The Latin word “sculpere”. Which means “to carve”.

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What are the four basic sculpture techniques?

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Carving, Modeling, Casting, Construction and Assemblage

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This is a process in which the artist subtracts or cuts away from a solid material to reach the desired form, it can be a very painstaking and time-consuming method because of the hard and weighty materials, such as marble or other stones, that are often used.

What basic sculpture technique is this?

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Carving

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This is the process of manipulating soft material to create a three-dimensional form.

What basic sculpture technique is this?

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Modeling

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This is a method of obtaining the permanence of modeled work by making a mold and casting it in durable material such as bronze.

What basic sculpture technique is this?

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Casting

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These consist of combining and joining various materials to form a three-dimensional object.

What basic sculpture technique is this?

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Construction and Assemblage

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What are the three medias used in sculpture?

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Hard Materials, Sound and Light.

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The most recognizable and most popular form that sculpture has been created with.

What media used in sculpture is this?

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Hard Materials

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The three-dimensional structure also produces sounds.

What media used in sculpture is this?

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Sound

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This is a unique type of medium because they use a various form of light or lighting to create an aesthetic effect.

What media used in sculpture is this?

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Light

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What are the elements of design in sculpture?

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Scale, Color, Line, Shapes, Space, Texture, Value, Form

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This refers to its size relative to the size of its surrounding environment.

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Scale

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Is the way light waves are absorbed or reflected by everything around us.

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Color

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Is the path of a moving point.

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Line

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It has no depth as it is two-dimensional.

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Shape

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This refers to the area between, around, above, below, or written elements in a work of art.

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Space

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Is the lightness or darkness of a color.

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Value

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Is the way something feels when you touch it.

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Texture

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This is three-dimensional. It has height, width, and thickness.

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Form

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This is the planning, designing, and construction of buildings and other physical structures.

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Architecture

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What are the elements of design in architecture?

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Line, Shape, Texture, Color, Light and Dark, Space

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These are often suggested by the structural material designers choose for their building such as the random lines of natural stone or the sleek lines created by beams of steel or walls of glass.

What element of design in architecture is this?

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Line

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This is made when a line is closed and space is enclosed.

What element of design in architecture is this?

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Shape

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This is the apparent look or feel of the surface of an art object.

What element of design in architecture is this?

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Texture

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These are relative perceptions of light.

What element of design in architecture is this?

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Light and Dark

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Is an element of our visual perception that is related to how our eyes perceive light.

What element of design in architecture is this?

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Color

44
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Is the relative position of one three-dimensional object to another.

What element of design in architecture is this?

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Space

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