Pencil, conte crayon, charcoal, ink and pastels are examples of media used to create this artform.
What is drawing?
100
Paint is a substance comprised of these two materials.
What is pigment and a binder?
100
This analysis seeks to discover how the artist's own life may have influenced a particular work of art.
What is a biographical analysis?
100
A sculpture created by joining together various separate works of art, or pre-designed materials and found objects.
What is an assemblage?
100
This photographic process was a popular portrait method that produced an image on a metal plate and required extensive amounts of light and exposure time.
What is a daguerreotype?
200
An artform in which pieces of paper or other objects are applied to a two-dimensional surface.
What is a collage?
200
A term referring to the use of multiple kinds of materials or media in a work of art.
What is mixed-media?
200
Most commonly associated with Christian or other religious works, this type of analysis studies the artwork's subject matter, signs, and symbols to determine its meaning.
What is Iconography?
200
Refers to a wide variety of artforms in which the central component is the idea, not the final product.
What is conceptual art?
200
Carving is an example of this 3-D process in which materials, such as wood, stone or marble are removed to create the finished piece.
What is the subtractive process?
300
This 2-D artform dates back to the prehistoric era when pigment was applied to cave walls.
What is painting?
300
This media is made up of finely ground pigments suspended in a binder of egg yolk and water.
What is tempera?
300
An approach to looking at art in which the work's characteristics such as texture, line, shape, and composition take precedence over its meaning or content.
What is formalism?
300
The pinch method, coil method, slab method, throwing, and slip casting are processes used to create this 3-D artform.
What is pottery?
300
A 2-D process in which the design is created through engraved lines on a metal plate. Ink is applied to the plate and wiped clean, leaving ink trapped in the grooves. The plate is then passed through a printing press transferring the design onto paper.
What is intaglio?
400
This artform creates an image by transferring a design from a master surface such as an inked plate, wood block, or stone to a piece of paper.
What is printmaking?
400
This media is made of burnt wood and comes in varying degrees of hardness.
What is charcoal?
400
Linda Nochlin is an art historian and critic associated with this type of analysis.
What is feminist analysis?
400
This artist works with fiber and is known for her story quilts and soft sculptures.
Who is Faith Ringgold?
400
Literally meaning, "dark chamber," a pinhole lets in a stream of light, which produces a projection onto the opposite wall that is upside-down and reversed left to right.
What is Camera Obscura?
500
This 2-D artform relies on the physics of light.
What is photography?
500
One of the oldest methods of painting used by artists in Greece, Rome and Egypt, this media uses hot beeswax as the binder and sets rapidly as it cools.
What is encaustic?
500
This type of interpretation looks at art as a product of individuals who have been influenced and shaped by their pasts, unconscious mind, and social histories.
What is a psychoanalytic interpretation?
500
Christo and Jeanne-Claude along with Andy Goldsworthy are examples of artists who create this type of artform.
What are earthworks or land art?
500
In this process, a wax model of a sculpture is made and covered in a plaster-like material that is fired in a kiln. The wax melts away leaving a negative mold.