VISUAL ART Flashcards
It refers to art experienced primarily through sense of sight.
Visual Arts
This refers to art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, etc.
Visual Arts
According to this man, the three classical branches of visual arts are painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Vasari Giorgio, in the book “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.”
What are the three classical branches of visual arts?
Painting
Sculpture
Architecture
This is the art of creating meaningful effects on a flat surface by the use of pigments.
+ the practice of applying paint, pigment, color, or other medium to a solid surface.
Painting
This is a colored material that is completely or nearby insoluble in water.
Pigment
What are the mediums in painting?
Coffee Painting
Oil Painting
Tempera Painting
Watercolor Painting
Pastel
Fresco Painting
Acrylic Painting
This method in painting uses pigments that are mixed in oil.
Oil Painting
This color is the best method for convincing representation where exact production of a color tone is necessary.
Oil Color
List some sources of pigments for oil painting.
Minerals
Vegetable Matter
Coal Tars
Different Chemical Combinations
This medium in painting are mixture of ground pigments and an albuminous or colloidal vehicle, either egg, gum, or glue, used by Egyptian, Medieval, and Renaissance painters.
Tempera Painting
This is the special characteristic of tempera painting.
Emulsion
What are the advantages of tempera painting?
Rapid drying
Colors are clear and beautiful
This painting is watery and has milk-like texture of oily and watery consistency.
Tempera Painting
This medium in painting are pigments that are mixed with water and applied to fine white paper.
Watercolor Painting
Watercolor painting requires a high degree of what?
Technical Dexterity
This is the most recent medium of painting which possesses only the surface of light, gives no glazed effect, and most closely resemble dry pigments.
Pastel
What are the basic oil pastel techniques?
Rule of 3’s - working with colors on the same side of the color wheel.
This medium of painting is a wet plaster made of sand and quick lime.
+ colors are mixed with water and applied to fresh plaster which absorbs the color.
Fresco Painting
Fresco means what?
Fresh
This is the newest medium of painting and the one that is used widely by painters today.
Acrylic Painting
Synthetic paints using acrylic emulsion as what?
Binder
Acrylic painting is combined with transparency and quick dry qualities of ___ and as flexible of _____.
Watercolor and Oil
Acrylic is completely ____ when dry and can be used almost on an surface.
Insoluble
This is the branch of the three visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Sculpture
What is the most important thing to consider in choosing a subject for sculpture?
Material
Some of the earlier sculptures are made from what?
Bone or Wood
What are the kinds of sculpture materials?
Stone and Bronze
Wood
Ivory
Terra Cotta
Other Materials
What materials are used for casting in liquid form?
Aluminum
Chromium
Steel
Plastic
Chemically Treated Clay
Stone
What are the most common media used for sculpture?
Stone and Metal
This is the most beautiful of all stones.
Marble
This is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
Wood Carving
This statues survive trough long periods of time due to the intrinsic value of the material.
Ivory Statues
This means “Cooked Earth”
It is made when moist clay is molded and then subjected to heat.
Terra Cotta
What are the types of sculptures?
Bust
Statue
Architectural
This is a sculpted and painted representation of the upper part of the human figure such as the head, neck, shoulders, chest or breast.
Bust
This is a life-size or a larger size of a sculpture of a person or an animal, made of metal, stone or wood.
Statue
This is a universal classification used to describe a structural design such as buildings, bridges, burial chamber and other big projects.
Architectural
What are the two processes of sculpture techniques?
Additive (added material)
Subtractive (material is removed or carved out)
What are the medium and techniques of sculptures?
Carving
Casting
Molding
This is a procedure in which the artists cut away objects until reached the desired form.
Carving
This is a method by which a liquid material is usually poured into a frame or pattern, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to harden.
Casting
This is an additive process. It is the working of soft or plastic materials (such as clay and wax) by hand to build up or shape to create a form.
Molding
This is the branch of visual arts that is designing and constructing buildings.
Architecture
Give an example of sculptures that are made of marble.
Pieta by Michael Angelo
The Head of Ptolemy I
What is the world’s tallest statue?
Spring Temple Buddhain in Henan, China
420 feet and 128 meters
