Visual arts Exam 3 Dec

Question 1

What is a wedge

Answer 1

A specific technique in releasing the air bubbles in clay

Question 2

What is a coil

Answer 2

Rolling the clay into thin long snakes

Question 3

What are the steps for joining clay

Answer 3

Steps in joining

• Scoring-( the action of scratching Surface) joining 2 rough surfaces ensure that will they remain in the together tact
• Wet - add a little water
• Welding- smooth down joined so the that they become areas that are one

Question 4

What is composition

Answer 4

The way an artwork is arranged

Question 5

What is a medium or media?

Answer 5

What is used to create the artwork E.g.

Pencil
Charcoal
Paint
Clay

Question 6

What is radial balance

Answer 6

Radial Balance: Shapes arranged around a centre.

Question 7

What is the balance in a photo

Answer 7

The visual weight of each element that is distributed in a way that makes the composition feel stable

Question 8

What are the 2 types of balance

Answer 8

Symmetrical balance- the artwork could be divided in half, both sides would look the Same

• Asymmetrical balance - A type of balance in which the two sides of the artwork are different, but still feel stable

Question 9

What is unity

Answer 9

Using similar or repeated elements. artwork to create consistency (marks, mood, colours, theme) an

Question 10

What is variety

Answer 10

Variety - using many different elements Interest contrast in an artwork created

Question 11

What is rhythm

Answer 11

Rythm - Repeating elements in order of organised movement to create a feeling

Question 12

What is a pattern

Answer 12

Pattern - A repeated design

Question 13

What is scale

Answer 13

The in comparison of one object to another in terms of size

Question 14

What is proportion

Answer 14

Proportion - Ratio: comparing parts of a whole in terms of size

Question 15

What is emphasis

Answer 15

Emphasis - What we focus on in an artwork. Usually the

largest or most detailed areas

Question 16

What is texture

Answer 16

visible brushmark, creating visual and tactile texture.

Question 17

What is frottage

Answer 17

the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art.

Question 18

What is contrast

Answer 18

Contrast - The amount difference between elements

Question 19

What is value contrast

Answer 19

Value contrast - The amount of difference between values

Question 20

What is high-value contrast

Answer 20

High Contrast there is a large difference

between the lightest and darkest areas (Edges look harder).

Question 21

What is low-value contrast

Answer 21

□ Low Contrast between - there is not much difference between the lightest and darkest areas (Edgos look softer)

Question 22

What is Juxtaposition

Answer 22

Juxtaposition - combining two or more unlike things to show contrast

Question 23

What is an example of juxtaposition and explain

Answer 23

Royal Antario Museum

Old and new
Material 
Old stone Facade /  Sleck metal and glass
Shape
Stoic/ Strong
Futuristic (crystal theme

Question 24

What is monochromatic colour

Answer 24

Variations on a single colour, made by combining black and white with a single colour to create tints and shades

Question 25

Name 2 examples of paintings with monochromatic colour

Answer 25

The Tragedy, 1903
The Old Guitarist, 1901-1904
The Sleeping Drinker, 1902

Question 26

What is a relief sculpture

Answer 26

an artwork, halfway between a sculpture and a painting, where images are raised above the surface

Question 27

What is a collage

Answer 27

a work of art created by glueing bits of paper, fabric, photographs onto a flat surface.

Question 28

What is Sgraffito

Answer 28

A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting colour, typically done in plaster or stucco on walls, or in slip on ceramics before firing.

Question 29

What is perspective

Answer 29

In two-dimensional artworks, artists create a feeling of three-dimensional space and depth through the use of perspective.

Question 30

What is contour

Answer 30

The outline or edge of a figure or object.

Question 31

What is Chiaroscuro

Answer 31

bright/dark – a high contrast between very light area and very dark area in an artwork.

Question 32

What is blind contour

Answer 32

a drawing where you do not look at your paper while you are drawing. Your pencil never lifts off the page and you follow the contours by observing carefully.

Question 33

How was Picasso influenced

Answer 33

African sculpture & masks
He was inspired by the geometric shapes in African masks and sculptures.

Iberian art (the Iberian Peninsula is occupied by Spain and Portugal)
Oval eyes and arched eyebrows found in Iberian sculpture.

Paul Cezanne
He experimented with showing different angles simultaneously (if you are viewing the front of the face you cannot see the side of the face too!)
No perspective – treated the canvas as the flat surface that it was.

Question 34

How were African masks made

Answer 34

Used materials from the earth such as wood, terracotta clay pottery, raffia, and textiles.
They are often decorated with cowrie shells, coloured beads, bones, animal skins, vegetable fibers.
Sometimes metals such as copper and brass are also used.
Even the tools for carving have spiritual qualities.

Question 35

How was African art defined

Answer 35

African artefacts were not considered art in the traditional sense.
African art is functional – used in rituals like dance and ceremonies.
Western art is to be looked at, contemplated, discussed to find symbolism and meaning.
African artefacts are allowed to decay. When it has served its purpose, it is tossed out and more is made.
Western art is preserved in temperature-controlled museums and galleries…value is placed on this art.