Styles of Art
Art that departs from appearances to varying degrees: involves simplification or rearrangement.
What is Abstract
Our visual response to wavelengths of light, such as red, green, blue, and so on.
What is Color
Polymers are used to produce synthetic rubbers and lightweight plastics. This chemical technology has been applied to the art field in developing a quick-drying medium for painting.
What is Acrylic paint
The process of using a mold to create a piece of art or the whole artwork.
Beautiful and decorative writing.
What is Calligraphy
A style of somewhat realistic artwork based on the changing aspects of light.
What is Impressionism
Limited transparancey through which things can be seen but indistinctly.
What is Translucent
A highly diluted, liquid application of color, usually over a broad area. Most often thought of in connection with watercolor painting.
What is Wash
The act of using taut wire for slicing chunks of clay which are later reassembled. This is done to render the clay more homogenous and eliminate air bubbles that could cause the clay to shatter if fired.
What is Wedging
A technique of dyeing fabric by protecting selected portions with wax. The wax serves as a resist and is later removed using heat and an absorbant material.
What is Batik
Art that attempts to reproduce the exact nature of things.
What is Naturalistic Art
A clear, fast-drying liquid substance that is sprayed on delicate artworks to protect them. Commercially available or hair spray is sometimes used for this purpose.
What is Fixative
This artist is known for having a "blue" period.
Who is Picasso
A substance that becomes vitreous at a specific temperature and provides a watertight, glossy (usually), and colorful (often) coating for ceramic articles.
What is Glaze
A sculptural piece in which relationships are established by suspending pieces from supporting arms in such a way that they can move with currents of air. Popularized by Alexander Calder.
What is a Mobile
A style of art attempting an imitation of the works of the Greeks and Romans.
What is Neoclassicism?
The search for the nature of pleasing qualities in a work of art. The study of our sensitivity to art forms.
What is Aesthetics
A technique of paint application in dots or small swatches. The mixed colors often produce a visual blending.
What is Pointillism
A furnace serviced with various fuels and most often used by ceramists to fire clay or other substances to make them more permanent.
What is a Kiln
A sculpture that is often similar to the mobiles invented by Alexander Calder except that they are stationary rather than in movement.
What is a Stabile
A style of artwork following Impressionism that tried to restore more of an expressive meaning to art.
What is Postimpressionism
A print in which the image is created on a smooth surface with paint by drawing through it with various drawing instruments. Paper is pressed over the paint, duplicating the image when withdrawn. A monoprint is usually one of a kind, hence "mono" print.
What is Monoprint
This type of paint takes weeks to dry (even longer depending on the formula) allowing the artist to work their painting over a longer period of time.
What is Oil paint
The characteristics of a surface with a degree of roughness or smoothness.
What is Texture
Arrangement of the elements of art and their resultant images.
What is Composition