Art?
Tools and Techniques
What's in a Paint?
Architecture and Craft
Principles of Design
100
A type of art that attempts to represent what we see in the world around us. Also sometimes called objective or figurative art.
What is Representational Art?
100
Original Prints that are produced in a specified number by the artist.
What are limited editions?
100
Sometimes made of minerals and plants, these particles provide the color in a painting media
What is a pigment?
100
The ancient craft of making objects from clay.
What is Ceramics?
100
The area of a composition to which the viewers eye is most compellingly drawn.
What is a focal point?
200
This type of art physically occupies space.
What is 3-Dimensional Art
200
The art or process of producing images on a sensitive surface using radiant energy.
What is Photography?
200
The most commonly used painting media since the Baroque Period.
What is Oil Paint?
200
A construction technique using stacked stones or blocks.
What is Bearing Wall Construction?
200
A series of shapes put together and repeated in a precise and orderly way.
What is Pattern?
300
When an artist emphasizes design, rather then exact representation when dealing with natural forms.
What is Stylization?
300
In this printmaking process, ink is forced into the grooves of a metal plate.
What is Intaglio?
300
The material in which a pigment is mixed that give each painting media it's specific properties.
What is a binder?
300
This applied art combines both letters and images to reach a targeted audience.
What is Graphic Design?
300
Change rather than sameness.
What is Variety?
400
This type of art extracts the essence of a real object.
What is Abstraction?
400
This small model can be used to work out the details of a proposed larger sculpture.
What is a maquette?
400
This type of painting mixes pigment with beeswax as a binder.
What is encaustic?
400
The two types of fibers that cross each other horizontally and vertically in weaving.
What are the warp and weft?
400
A term that refers to size relationships between parts of a whole.
What is Proportion?
500
This man said "Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement."
Who is Thomas Hoving?
500
The name of this early predecessor to the camera literally means "dark room".
What is Camera Obscura?
500
This binder is used in both Watercolor, which is transparent, and Gouache, which is opaque.
What is gum arabic?
500
Dale Chihuly and Louis Comfort Tiffany are major artists in this craft field
What is glass work?
500
Visual Weight of dissimilar areas that counterbalance each other.
What is Asymmetrical Balance?
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