Materials and Methods
Printmaking
Painting
3D Art
Other Media
100
At the Millner's, a work by Degas uses this medium.
What is pastel?
100
A type of printmaking where negative areas are cut away.
What is relief printing?
100
Intense colors in powder form.
What are pigments?
100
The Moai statues of Easter Island are an example of what kind of sculpture?
What is freestanding or sculpture in the round?
100
A live-action event staged as an artwork.
What is performance art?
200
Produced by a stylus made of silver that leaves marks on paper or wood which is coated with layers of gesso as a ground.
What is silver point?
200
Fine lines, a high level of detail, and rich dark tones are characteristic of this category of printmaking.
What is Intaglio?
200
Water for watercolors, oil for oil paint and plastic for acrylic paint.
What is a binder?
200
Meant to be seen only from the front, they are usually carved out of a single stone or wood block.
What are relief sculptures?
200
Ghostly silver images of great clarity and detail that evoke a sense of poetry and history.
What is a daguerrotype?
300
Fluid brushed onto a support to change its surface quality, gesso is an example.
What is a ground?
300
Cut or incised lines on a laminated woodblock or a polished metal plate.
What is engraving?
300
A painting process that uses beeswax.
What is encaustic?
300
This artist is credited with changing the definition of sculpture by adding movement.
Who is Alexander Calder?
300
A collage or combination of photographs that are manipulated and altered to create a new image.
What is a photomontage?
400
Cai Guo-Qiang’s Drawing for Transient Rainbow is made with this unusual medium.
What is gunpowder?
400
Scratched onto a metal plate coated with sticky protective ground then bathed in acid which etches the exposed metal.
What is an etching?
400
Painting on fresh plaster.
What is buon fresco?
400
Calder's work, as seen here featuring motion, is this type of art.
What is kinetic art?
400
This work by Simpson uses this type of media.
What is film or video?
500
Decorative stitch patterns on fabric.
What is embroidery?
500
Similar to etching, but metal plate is partly covered with powder of a stain-resistant resin to create flat tones or shifting values before acid bath.
What is aquatint?
500
Painting medium that traditionally mixes egg yolk with pigment.
What is tempera?
500
A sculptural process as seen here.
What is subtractive sculpting?
500
Mixed-media artworks designed for a specific interior or exterior space.
What is an installation?
600
The process used to make this statue.
What is the lost wax method?
600
An image is drawn with an oily pencil on a limestone slab, a water-based liquid is applied, the oily marks resist it.
What is Lithography?
600
Similar to watercolor but opaque.
What is gouache?
600
Literally, "to fool the eye".
What is Tromp L'oeil?
600
An artist known for compositions of found objects he called "Combines."
Who is Robert Rauschenburg?
700
When speaking of ceramic objects, this, instead of decorative.
What is functional?
700
This work by Warhol is an example of this type of printmaking.
What is seriography or screen printing?
700
This work by Johns features this ancient painting medium.
What is encaustic?
700
Artworks made of various parts that are then put together, often using found objects.
What is assemblage?
700
All forms of contemporary art made, altered, or transmitted using new forms of media technology.
What is "new media"?