Social Studies in Art Part I
Some Egyptian Gods/Goddesses were depicted with a body that was half human and half _____.
What is animal?
These are the first people who created artwork using the materials they found in the wild. Most of their artwork represented the animals they hunted.
Who are cave men?
It's when a shape or color repeats itself over and over.
What is a pattern?
This paper was used for our Greek pottery lesson. You were able to scrape off the black to show the metallic color underneath.
What is scratch art paper?
Red, Yellow, Blue
What are primary colors?
The brightly colored, banded material made in Ghana, Africa.
What is Kente cloth?
The Egyptian form of writing using symbols to represent things and ideas.
What are hieroglyphs?
Showing light to dark or dark to light.
What is value?
We mainly used black sharpies for this in order to darken our pencil lines and to make our artwork stand out.
What is to outline?
Secondary Colors
What are orange, purple and green?
This system that represents constellations in the sky and correlates with birthday months.
What is the Zodiac?
The material used to create the army for Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China.
What is terracotta?
When something is the same on one side as it is to the other.
What is symmetry or symmetrical balance?
A technique used to make an area look darker by using the side of the pencil and building the pencil up darker, layer by layer.
What is shading?
Thick, thin, curvy, zig-zag
What is a line?
The spaced area at the top of a castle used for shooting out of. (Hint: they used them for battles).
What is a battlement?
This building in India was built by Shah Jahan for his wife. The building shows perfect symmetry except for one room that was added later.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This is a principle of art. When defining it, art experts refer to the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement, and drama.
Hint: You needed to show 50/50 (metallic to black space) on your greek vases to show this principle of art.
What is contrast?
This is usually done by placing a piece of carbon paper under a drawing to transfer it to another piece of paper. We did this by outlining our drawings and tracing them on the back side to transfer them to another piece of paper.
What is to carbon copy?
Geometric and organic
What is a shape?
An oval shape that contained the hieroglyphs of a Pharaoh's name. We used these behind our Egyptian God/Goddess drawings.
What is a cartouche?
These are the two figure-types of pottery in Greece.
What is red-figure and black-figure pottery?
The side view of a person's face. We used this viewpoint on our Egyptian Gods/Goddesses.
What is a profile?
The material we used in the India project of the Taj Mahal. We used water and brushes to stick it to the background.
What is bleeding tissue paper?
Colors across from each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?