Art Vocabulary
Processes
Painting
Ceramics
Miscellaneous
100
This word means "the degree of lightness or darkness of a color."
What is value?
100
When painting, this is how you would mix a "shade."
What is mix a color together with black (or a darker color).
100
This is the medium you used for adding color to your self-portraits.
What is watercolor paint?
100
These are the TWO actions you must do before attaching one new piece of clay to another piece of clay.
What is score and add slip?
100
You used this type of technology to assist you with capturing the pose or expression you wanted to show in your self-portrait.
What is PhotoBooth (or MacBook, or digital camera)?
200
In art, the term "scoring" means this.
What is roughing up the clay by carving or scratching criss-cross lines?
200
This is the purpose of using hot wax (or in our version, glue) when creating a batik design.
What is a "resist"--to protect the cloth and keep the color from dying those areas.
200
This is a tint of red.
What is pink?
200
This is the purpose of wedging the clay.
What is to remove any air pockets that might be trapped in the clay?
200
Before making animal teapots, we learned about examples of ancient American animal sculpture created by the Mayans, Aztecs, Inca, Moche, Colima, and other cultures. Art from these cultures in Central and South America is sometimes called “Pre-Columbian" for this reason.
What is: because the art was created before Columbus and other Europeans “discovered” the Americas (and influenced the cultures).
300
In art, this is the meaning of a "tint."
What is a color mixed with white?
300
Before creating your carousel paintings, you created a "value scale" with others using your same color. This is the purpose of making the value scale prior to painting.
What is checking that the values of paint are correctly mixed, in similar increments (and that no two values look too much alike)?
300
This is a difference between watercolor paint and watercolor pencil.
What is: watercolor paint must be thinned with water and then painted with a brush; watercolor pencil may be colored first with pencil and then brushed with water, etc.
300
This is one "rule" about how to glaze a clay pot.
What is apply three coats of glaze, OR don't paint the bottom?
300
This was one requirement about the “composition” of your monochromatic painting, or how it was arranged on the paper.
What is the image needed to touch all 4 sides of the paper?
400
This is the term for a traditional cloth-dying process involving hot wax and colored dye.
What is batik?
400
This describes the process (including all the media used) to create your Boko Island drawings.
What is draw with pencil first, outline with black Sharpie pen, color with watercolor pencil, and add water with a small brush?
400
You used acrylic paint for your carousel animal paintings and tempera paint for your batik cloth paintings. This is the main reason to use tempera rather than acrylic for our batik-style designs.
What is: tempera (mostly) washes out; acrylic does not.
400
Often in art, "form follows function." How an object looks, or how it is formed, is determined by how it functions. These were the "functional" requirements for your clay animal teapots (name three requirements).
What is: handle, spout, lid, able to hold liquid
400
This type of art was a part of the scientific voyage of the HMS Challenger in 1872-73.
What is the scientific illustrations drawn by scientists to document newly discovered species?
500
This term refers to an image containing different values of a color, coming from the Greek words meaning "one" and "color".
What is monochromatic?
500
The artist Chuck Close, who is paralyzed, is still able to create art in the style of “photorealism.” This is the method or type of layout that helps Chuck Close to create his large, photorealistic portraits. (You used the same method to help you draw your self-portraits to scale.)
What is a grid?
500
This is a difference between painting and glazing a clay object.
What is: painting does not require that the clay piece goes back into the kiln again (glazing requires another firing); glaze changes to a shiny gloss when fired, while painting does not, etc.
500
The decoration of ancient American animal vessels is often described as “stylized,” which can mean simplified to create a certain effect that is not realistic. This is one example of an ancient American animal vessel we viewed in class that was "stylized" in some way.
What is the Aztec coyote, the Colima chihuahua, the Lizard Jar from Peru, the crocodile effigy, jaguar incense burner, etc.? (name only one)
500
Before beginning our carousel animal paintings, we viewed work by this artist, who went through a “blue period” in which most of his paintings were almost one-color paintings in shades of blue. (His later paintings became much more abstract.)
Who is Pablo Picasso?
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