VISUAL ART Flashcards

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It refers to art experienced primarily through sense of sight.

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Visual Arts

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This refers to art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, etc.

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Visual Arts

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According to this man, the three classical branches of visual arts are painting, sculpture, and architecture.

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Vasari Giorgio, in the book “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.”

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What are the three classical branches of visual arts?

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Painting
Sculpture
Architecture

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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.

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Painting

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This is a colored material that is completely or nearby insoluble in water.

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Pigment

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What are the mediums in painting?

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Coffee Painting
Oil Painting
Tempera Painting
Watercolor Painting
Pastel
Fresco Painting
Acrylic Painting

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This method in painting uses pigments that are mixed in oil.

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Oil Painting

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This color is the best method for convincing representation where exact production of a color tone is necessary.

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Oil Color

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List some sources of pigments for oil painting.

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Minerals
Vegetable Matter
Coal Tars
Different Chemical Combinations

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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.

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Tempera Painting

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This is the special characteristic of tempera painting.

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Emulsion

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What are the advantages of tempera painting?

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Rapid drying
Colors are clear and beautiful

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This painting is watery and has milk-like texture of oily and watery consistency.

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Tempera Painting

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This medium in painting are pigments that are mixed with water and applied to fine white paper.

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Watercolor Painting

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Watercolor painting requires a high degree of what?

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Technical Dexterity

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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.

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Pastel

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What are the basic oil pastel techniques?

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Rule of 3’s - working with colors on the same side of the color wheel.

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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.

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Fresco Painting

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Fresco means what?

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This is the newest medium of painting and the one that is used widely by painters today.

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Acrylic Painting

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Synthetic paints using acrylic emulsion as what?

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Acrylic painting is combined with transparency and quick dry qualities of ___ and as flexible of _____.

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Watercolor and Oil

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Acrylic is completely ____ when dry and can be used almost on an surface.

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This is the branch of the three visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Sculpture
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What is the most important thing to consider in choosing a subject for sculpture?
Material
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Some of the earlier sculptures are made from what?
Bone or Wood
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What are the kinds of sculpture materials?
Stone and Bronze Wood Ivory Terra Cotta Other Materials
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What materials are used for casting in liquid form?
Aluminum Chromium Steel Plastic Chemically Treated Clay Stone
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What are the most common media used for sculpture?
Stone and Metal
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This is the most beautiful of all stones.
Marble
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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
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This statues survive trough long periods of time due to the intrinsic value of the material.
Ivory Statues
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This means "Cooked Earth" It is made when moist clay is molded and then subjected to heat.
Terra Cotta
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What are the types of sculptures?
Bust Statue Architectural
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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
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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
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This is a universal classification used to describe a structural design such as buildings, bridges, burial chamber and other big projects.
Architectural
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What are the two processes of sculpture techniques?
Additive (added material) Subtractive (material is removed or carved out)
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What are the medium and techniques of sculptures?
Carving Casting Molding
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This is a procedure in which the artists cut away objects until reached the desired form.
Carving
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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
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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
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This is the branch of visual arts that is designing and constructing buildings.
Architecture
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Give an example of sculptures that are made of marble.
Pieta by Michael Angelo The Head of Ptolemy I
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What is the world's tallest statue?
Spring Temple Buddhain in Henan, China 420 feet and 128 meters