Prehistoric Art
describing the art created by early human societies before written records. This includes cave paintings, rock carvings, and other forms of artistic representation.
What is Prehistoric Art
The building blocks of art used by artists to create a work of art.
What are the Elements of Art
When light reflects off an object and differs by hue and intensity.
What is Color
A naturally occurring fine-grain soil containing various minerals that gains plasticity when wet.
What is Clay.
The Japanese word for ink painting.
What is Sumi-e.
the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.
What is Mosaic
Incised or scratched into a rock surface and are seen as the first form of low relief sculpture.
What is Petroglyph
There are this many Elements of Art.
What is eight.
The range of lightness and darkness of tones or colors.
What is Value
This is made up of three parts. A flux/melter, a refractory/stabilizer, and a glass former.
What is Glaze.
Holding your brush upright and moving the tip of the brush running in the center of the lines.
what is Chokujitsu.
A mixture of lime, sand and water used to hold a mosaic together.
What is Mortar
Painted or drawn onto a stone surface and are seen as the first drawing or paintings.
What is a Pictograph
A point moving in space that maybe two-dimensional or three-dimensional.
What is a Line.
The way things feel with touched or look as if they might feel.
What is Texture
The method used to measure the temperature of clay by seeing when the cone starts to flop over.
What is Cones.
Brush technique were the tip of the brush is spread out with dried hairs.
What is Warifude.
Small sections of a material often cut from stone, glass, shell, or other hard materials that make up a Mosaic.
What is Tesserae
Made when wood is burned but not fully consumed by a fire.
What is Charcoal
A three-dimensional object that has length, height, & width and can be touched or manipulated
What is a Form.
This implies the change and movement; movement implies the passage of this.
What is Time
Clay pottery that has a range of moisture in the clay and has not been fired in a Kiln.
What is Greenware.
Holding your brush diagonally and moving it sideways, the tip of the brush is pointing one side, and the root of the brush is the other side.
What is Shokuhitzu.
An artist of the 1940's that almost exclusively moved to cut paper and introduced a radically new operation that came to be called a cut-out.
Who is Henri Matisse.
Prehistoric art had these that didn't represent language but can represent big aspects or show the passage of time.
What is Symbols
A two-dimensional area that is flat or limited to height and width and are either geometric or organic.
What is a Shape
An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
What is Chiaroscuro
Converting something into glass or a glasslike substance, typically by exposure to heat.
What is Vitrify.
The brush technique of placing the brush in darker ink, then wash the tip of the brush in water to make the tip lighter ink.
What is Motoguma
This culture used mosaics of the gods like Poseidon, the sea god, to decorate buildings to honor the gods.
What is the Greeks.
The most prevalent artifacts found in cave paintings that shows hierarchical proportions due to the size and detail of the artwork.
What are Animals
The interaction of emptiness around an object often discussed as the positive and negative areas that give the sense of depth.
What is Space
The subject in somewhat of a "freeze frame.” This type of movement can show the subject in the air, or at an angle and the viewer has to make the connection of movement.
What is Juxtaposition
a higher specific gravity when dealing with glaze means what.
What is Thicker Glaze.
Ink effect technique created by dipping your brush in thinner ink, wiping, and then adding darker ink to the tip of the brush.
What is Sakiguma.
Matisse is an artist of this art movement period.
What is Abstract.