Visula Arts

Question 1

What does collage mean?

Answer 1

The German word meaning to stick.

Question 2

Proportion isn’t important in drawing a human figure.

Answer 2

False proportion is very important.

Question 3

What is, in Visual Art terms, what is Media?

Answer 3

Media is the type of material you use on a canvas, paper, eg and can be pencils or paddle pop sticks. It is NOT radio, news or TV, that is different media term.

Question 4

Name some examples of tones.

Answer 4

• Cross-hatching
• Hatching
• Blending
• Smudging
• Dots
• Shading

Question 5

What is composition?

Answer 5

The arrangement of shapes/objects/lines/patterns etc. within an artwork.

Question 6

How many times can an adult males head fit into his body and how many times can a 13-14 year olds head fit into its body?

Answer 6

• Adult: 14-ish

- Child: 7

Question 7

Does tone depend on a light source?

Answer 7

No.

Question 8

The amount of pressure you place on your media, the type of media and the amount of white that shows through the media all cause changes in tone, True or False?

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What are the primary colours?

Answer 9

Red, Blue, Yellow

Question 10

What are the secondary colours?

Answer 10

Green, orange and purple.

Question 11

What is perspective?

Answer 11

Representing 3D objects on 2D surfaces to give height, depth, width

Question 12

When was perspective invented?

Answer 12

During the renaissance (14th century)

Question 13

What is a vanishing point?

Answer 13

A point on a picture were everything gets small and dissapears, all

Question 14

What are the four frames in Visual Arts?

Answer 14

• Cultural
• Subjective
• Post-modern
• Structural

Question 15

What does the structural frame mean?

Answer 15

Codes,symbol and signs used; use of elements-line, shape,texture, e.t.c
How has it been organised and what symbols have been used and why?

Question 16

What does a subjective frame mean?

Answer 16

Immediate response based one senses, personal response, imagination,intuitive, shared experiences
What do I feel about this artwork?

Question 17

What does cultural frame mean?

Answer 17

Cultural identity-race,class,gender,place;art movement and styles.
What does the artwork show me about the culture or society?

Question 18

What does the postmodern frame mean?

Answer 18

Use of words or something images from the past for new purpose or in a new way; mass media, popular culture.
Have past artworks been used in a new way (appropriated)?
Is it a new form of art?