Topic 4: The Visual Arts: A Feast for the Eyes Flashcards
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.
Painting
Are vegetable or mineral extracts which make up the coloring matter of paint.
Pigment
This is a liquid part that is mixed with the prepared pigments.
Vehicle
What are the different types of Painting Media?
Acrylic Paint, Encaustic, Fresco, Gouache, Magna Paint, Oil Paint, Pastel, Tempera, Watercolor
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.
Acrylic Paint
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.
Encaustic
Is a method of painting or plaster, either dry or wet.
Fresco
Is a heavy, opaque watercolor paint, sometimes called body color, producing a less wet-appearing and more strongly colored picture than ordinary watercolor.
Gouache
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.
Magna Paint
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.
Oil Paint
Is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigments and a binder.
Pastel
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.
Tempera
Is any paint that uses water as a solvent.
Watercolor
What are the three main characteristics of color?
Hue, Value and Intensity.
This is the name of any color as found in its pure state in the spectrum or rainbow, or that aspect of any color.
Hue
Refers to the brightness or darkness of a color.
Value
Is the brightness or dullness of a hue or color.
Intensity
What word does sculpture originate from?
The Latin word “sculpere”. Which means “to carve”.