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Unit 2 Flashcards

1
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Materials that have a long life and resist fading (high-quality)

A

Archival

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2
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Rapidly produced scribble drawing used to capture mass, form, and movement

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Gesture

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3
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An outline drawing (lines only)

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Contour

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4
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Any artwork that is created to give a visual description (very detailed or highly finished)

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Illustration

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5
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Preliminary drawings that are created before the painting (used by artist to work out problems with design, tones, and details

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Cartoon

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6
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Drawing(writing) with thick and thin lines

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Calligraphy

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7
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Artist paper made from 100% cotton

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Rag paper

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8
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Color in ground-up powdered state

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Pigment

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9
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Any material added to the medium to make it stick to the surface

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Binder

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10
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A liquid solvent added to the pigments to dilute and aid in spreading or moving the medium

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Vehicle

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11
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The way the artist applies or works with medium

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Technique

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12
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Using dots to create images

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Pointillism

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13
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Drawing or painting technique that allows the medium to run or spread using lots of vehicle

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Wash

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14
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Completing a painting in one sitting

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Alla Prima

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15
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Painting on location or outdoors

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Plein Air

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16
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Artist pencils consist of quality __ mixed with __, then kiln fired and encased in __

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Graphite; Clay; Wood

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17
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Represents hard and makes light lines or marks

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H

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18
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The __ the number the __ the graphite (2B, 4B, and 6B)

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Bigger; Softer

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19
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A drawing media that is carbon and is the fastest drawing media

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Charcoal

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20
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Thin sticks/vines and soft light marks (type of charcoal)

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Vine Charcoal

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21
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Harder sticks that make darker marks (type of charcoal)

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Compressed

22
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Crayon made of quality pigment and a wax or grease binder

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Conte’

23
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Similar to conte’, only incased in wood like a pencil

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Color Pencil

24
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A drier chalk colored stick of material allows for easier blending and somewhat crumbly and brittle (like charcoal)

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Pastel

25
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Liquid drawing medium applied with pens the creates various line thickness

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Ink

26
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A transparent medium usually applied in washes or drybrush on rag paper

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Watercolor

27
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Watercolor like medium but with white pigments added to make it more opaque

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Gouache

28
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Painting medium that uses egg yolk as the binder

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Tempera

29
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Painting method that allows the paint to be absorbed in the final layer of the paster wall

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Fresco

30
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Micheloangelo’s “Sistene Chapel ceiling” used what painting method

A

Fresco

31
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Pigments mixed with linseed oil and diluted with mineral spirits

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Oil

32
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Creating an artwork with ceramic tiles or colored glass

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Mosaic

33
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Using pictures, paper, and other materials to create a “painting”

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Collage

34
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Arrangement of colored into a design or picture

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Stained Glass

35
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Graphic Art =

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Communication arts

36
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The artist creates simplified and stylized designs or logos with constrasting and intense colors

A

Graphic art

37
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Graphic artist communicate a message __ and effectively

A

quickly

38
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Printmaking can be __ or __

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Reproduction ; Original Print/Artist Print

39
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A commercially printed copy of an original artwork, inexpensive, and not valuable

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Reproduction

40
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How many colors are used by commercial printing

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4

41
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4 colors used by commercial printing

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cyan, magenta, yellow, and black

42
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A print created and printed by the artist and intended to be the original art

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Original Print/ Artist Print

43
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In the artist print, the artist creates his own print plates or blocks in __

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Reverse

44
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4 types of printmaking

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Relief, Intaglio, Lithography, and Serigraphy

45
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A print created from the raised surface after carving away negative space (Woodcut, Blockprint, and Linocut)

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Relief Printing

46
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Considered relief because it physically takes on the raised surface of the block

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Embossing

47
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__ is the opposite of relief because it prints from the indented surface and lines are etched into a __

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Intaglio; metal plate

48
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The artist draws the image with a needle tool in a retardant material covering the plate

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Etching

49
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The method where the image is etched by hand using a burin to cut lines in the plate

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Engraving

50
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Drawn with a grease pencil or crayon which the ink sticks to when the surface is rinsed after inking (also called Planographic)

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Lithography

51
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Created from an image placed on silk that is stretched on a frame (also called silkscreen or screen printing)

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Serigraphy

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