Unit 1: Terms and Concepts

Question 1

What kind of system of building is this example?

Answer 1

Post and lintel

Question 2

What kind of system of building is this example?

Answer 2

Walls and arches

Question 3

Modeling

Answer 3

ADDING material onto a base or together

Question 4

What kind of sculpture technique is this example?

Answer 4

Modeling

Question 5

Carving

Answer 5

It is subtractive. Removing material from a base

Question 6

What kind of sculpture technique is this example?

Answer 6

Carving

Question 7

Pigment

Answer 7

The colour we all think of as paint

Question 8

Ground

Answer 8

The prepared surface for the paint to adhere too

Question 9

Support

Answer 9

The actual material painted on

Question 10

Stain

Answer 10

Soaks into the material

Question 11

Powder and adhesive

Answer 11

Colour that sticks right to the surface

Question 12

Fresco

Answer 12

A painting on a specific kind of wall. The wall is covered with plaster and while it is still wet, they paint with stain. Very durable

Question 13

What kind of painting is this?

Answer 13

Fresco

Question 14

Relief printing

Answer 14

Block/printing surface is carved and ink is applied to high spots

Question 15

Intaglio printing

Answer 15

Carve lines that are the design. Ink is then applied and wiped off, leaving it in the low spots. Often called engraving

Question 16

2 types of printing techniques

Answer 16

Relief and intaglio

Question 17

Conceptual

Answer 17

What the mind knows. Not very realistic/more abstract

Question 18

Perceptual

Answer 18

What images actually look like. Tends to be more realistic

Question 19

Perspective

Answer 19

Is a way to create a portrait off the way the world actually works and looks

Question 20

What does size mean?

Answer 20

Often signifies importance

Question 21

Primary colours

Answer 21

Red, yellow, blue. Mixing creates secondary colors

Question 22

Secondary colours

Answer 22

Created from mixing primary colours. Mixing makes tertiary colours

Question 23

Complementary colours

Answer 23

Colours directly across from each other

Question 24

Warm colours feel ________, while cool colours feel _________ ______

Answer 24

Close, far away

Question 25

Artist name:
Time period:
Main points:

Answer 25

Artemisia Gentileschi
1620
One of the first known female artists

Question 26

Formal art criticism

Answer 26

Talking about how art works and physical appearance of art

Question 27

Art history criticism

Answer 27

Talking about how the art has functioned through history and what role it played

Question 28

What is not a part of visual analysis?

Answer 28

Iconography/symbolism
Commission/patron
Political/social/economic context

Question 29

What is focused on in visual analysis/formal criticism?

Answer 29

Scale, composition, pictoral space, form, line, colour, light, tone, texture, and pattern/orientation

Question 30

Formal criticism

Answer 30

Studying nothing outside the artwork

Question 31

Historical criticism

Answer 31

Studying the history of the art, not the actual art itself

Question 32

What does historical criticism focus on?

Answer 32

Subject matter/iconography
Function
Context (when it was made, where was it made, who made it and whom for)

Question 33

The survival of objects

Answer 33

If the art doesn’t survive, we can’t talk about it