building vocabulary
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Art?
Art Facts
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100

Something that stands for, or represents, something else

What is Symbol?

100

The basic visual symbols in the language of art.

What are the Elements of Art?

100

A technique of capturing optical images on light-sensitive surfaces.

What is Photography?

100

The basic ingredients common to all paints

What is Solvent, Binder, and Pigment?

100

List of important facts about a work of art.

What is a Credit line?

200

A material used to make art

What is Medium?

200

The rules that govern how artists organize the elements of art

What is Principles of Design?

200

Surrounded on all sides by space.

What is Freestanding?

200

Creating the printing late, inking the plate, transferring the image.

What is printmaking?

200

Plural of medium

What is Media?

300

The act of looking at something carefully and thinking deeply about what is seen.

What is Perception?

300

The number of the elements of art.

What is 7?

300

Art that has no recognizable subject matter.

What is Nonobjective?

300

Graphite pencils, colored pencils, markers, charcoal, crayons, pastels, colored chalks. 

What art drawing mediums?

300

Relief, intaglio, lithography, screen

What are printmaking processes? 

400

The image viewers can easily identify in a work of art.

What is Subject?

400

Rhythm, Movement, Balance, Proportion, Variety, Emphasis, and Unity.

What are the Principles of Design?

400

Sculpture in which forms project from a flat background.

What is Relief?

400

printmaking process best suited to printing on fabric.

What is screen printing?

400

the message the work communicates

What is Content?

500

A process in which an artist repeatedly transfers an original image from one prepared surface to another.

What is Printmaking?

500

7 Elements of Art

What is Color, Line, Form, Shape, Space, texture, and Value?

500

A series of identical prints made from the same plate.

What is Edition?

500

Artist process where the sculpture is carved

What is subtractive?

500

name, title, year, medium, size, location

What is Credit Line?

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