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A picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint, esp. one drawn in monochrome; a graphic representation by lines of an object or idea, as with a pencil; a delineation of form without reference to color; The art of representing objects or forms on a surface chiefly by means of lines; the art or technique of representing an object or outlining. . .,
Define drawing.
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painting that uses pigments originally ground in oil; A paste made with ground pigment and a drying oil such as linseed oil, used chiefly by artists.
What is oil paint
100
An international and diverse abstract art movement originating in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, in which the spontaneity of the artist's emotions and personal expressions of thought are expressed through and in their art, usually within an abstract or non-representational style. The artist is freed from accepted artistic values and the process of painting, and non-representational color, line, and shape replace realistic depictions of the subject matter. Artists from this movement include Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning, Motherwell, and Kline. Also known as the "New York School," "Action Art," and in Europe as "Art Informel." Art Informel was differentiated and described as "lyrical abstraction" in reference to its painterly style. See also "Expressionism."
What is abstract expressionism
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An abstract art movement in the United States and Europe that began in the mid-1960s. It was based on geometrical forms and patterns that created optical illusions requiring the eye to blend the colors when viewed at a distance. The illusions could create movement through the juxtaposition of contrasting shapes, tones, lines, and colors. The name is an abbreviation for "optical art." Artists included Albers and Riley.,
What is op art?
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An implement with a handle, consisting of bristles, hair, or wire set into a block, used for cleaning or scrubbing, applying a liquid or powder to a surface, arranging the hair, or other purposes,
What is a Brush?
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The art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, esp. by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.; the action or art of processing (as by carving, modeling, or welding) plastic or hard materials into works of art; The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal
What is sculpture
200
Artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder such as gum arabic, and thinned with water rather than oil, giving a transparent color.,
What is water color?
200
A late 16th through early 18th century European style of art and architecture that originated in Rome and with the Catholic Church. It spread throughout Europe and was characterized by a highly dramatic effect of extreme contrast and color, and highly exaggerated emotional expression. Among its members were Bernini, Caravaggio, and Rubens.
What is Baroque?
200
A representational art movement in the United States and Great Britain associated, in part, with the Neo-Realism movement. In this 1950s-1960s style, subject matter was selected from the impersonal, mass-media imagery of the everyday world, including advertising, comic strips, trendy foods, and popular culture. Artists included Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Oldenburg.,
What is Pop Art
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a hand roller used in printmaking techniques to spread ink or to offset an image from a plate to paper. They can be made of composition, rubber, sponge, acrylic, polyurethane or leather. Rubber brayers come in varieties of hardness and are primarily used for relief printing; In printing, a rubber roller used to spread ink over a surface.; Roller (often rubber) used to apply ink to plates and blocks; Hand roller for inking blocks for relief printing; An instrument for inking the plate. Brayers used in gravure are usually made from soft rubber. The best quality brayers have a translucent composition roller. Apart from ink, rollers can be used to apply varnish; A hand roller used to apply ink to a printing surface; A brayer is used to ink large stamps uniformly or to create interesting backgrounds
What is a Brayer?
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the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma rays; the art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (as film or an optical sensor). The art or process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces.
What is photography?
300
A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk. Also called poster color, poster paint; A method of painting with pigments dispersed in an emulsion miscible with water, typically egg yolk. The method was used in Europe for fine painting, mainly on wood panels, from the 12th or early 13th century until the 15th, when it began to give way to oils,
What is tempra?
300
A revolutionary and influential movement initiated by Picasso and Braque in the first decade of the 20th century by a style called analytical cubism. This departure from representational art ultimately developed into synthetic or collage cubism. Cubism relies on simultaneous multiple views and fragmentation (breaking down natural forms into geometric shapes), with geometric reconstruction of objects relieved of their three-dimensional form. The palette is generally neutral. In 1918, an art movement called "Purism" was founded to rid Cubism of its decorative elements and to emphasize pure outline and impersonality. In the 1920s-1930s, there was a style that depicted the subject in a realistic way but with an eye to its geometric form. This was similar to Art Déco and was called "Precisionism" or "Cubist Realism." When forms are analyzed in geometric terms the art is called "analytical cubism" and when reorganized in various contexts and more colorful, textural, and decorative, the art is called "synthetic cubism" or "collage cubism.",
What is cubism
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A style of representational art that first occurred in mid-19th century France and again in Great Britain and the United States circa 1960-1980, in opposition to idealized academic styles in favor of everyday subject matter portrayed as realistically as possible. Also refers to artistic portrayals of everyday people going about their everyday lives. When it is so ultra-precise that it resembles a photograph, it is known as "photorealism." Also known as "realisme" (French), "hyperrealism," and "superrealism." Artists include Courbet, Daumier, Millet, Chuck Close, and Richard Estes, among others.,
What is Realism?
300
A self-supporting wooden frame for holding an artist's work while it is being painted or drawn; an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)
What is an Easel
400
artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens; the art or technique of making prints especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
What is printmaking?
400
A colored fluid used for writing, drawing, printing, or duplicating; a liquid that contains pigments and/or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing and/or writing with a pen, brush, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.
What is ink?
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A highly influential style of art that originated during the late 19th century in France and quickly spread throughout the world. Art of this style is characterized by its portrayal of common subject matter, usually outdoors in nature, captured in mood and ambience through the use of color and light in divided brush strokes, to emphasize the transitory effects of that color and light in the visible world at different times of the day and year. Paint was applied in small areas of varying colors that, at a distance, recombined in the viewer's eye, to create a blended color effect. Important artists of the 19th century included such as Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir — to name only a few. Later California impressionists of the 20th century included Bischoff, Braun, Fortune, Hansen, Hassam, Kleitsch, Payne, Redmond, Rose, the Wachtels, Wendt and, again, many more.
What is impressionism?
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A late 18th through 19th century European art movement built on emotional intensity, and spontaneity; on the subjective, nostalgic, and intuitive; and including brilliant and colorful depictions of nature in all its glory, exotic locales, danger, and torment. It was a response to the coldness of Neo-Classicist art. Also known as the "Romantic Movement." Artists of the movement included Blake, Delacroix, Gericault, and Turner.,
What is Romanticism?
400
An object, typically a piece of soft rubber or plastic, used to rub out something written,
What is an eraser
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is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal (the original process—in modern manufacturing other chemicals may be used on other types of material).
What is etching?
500
A crayon made of powdered pigments bound with gum or resin; Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation.
What is pastel?
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A late 19th century French school of painting that sought to make impressionism more formal through the use of scientific analysis and use of color. Following after artist Georges Seurat, they painted using a technique called "pointillism" or "divisionism," the juxtaposing of dots of primary colors to achieve brighter secondary colors, with the recombination left to the eye to complete the picture.,
What is neo-impressionism
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A late 19th century art movement originating in France as a reaction against both Realism and Impressionism. It was aimed at the fusion of symbols and ideas, of the real and spiritual worlds, the visual expression of the mystical. It featured decorative, evocative, and stylized images, such as mosaic-like surfaces embellished with design elements. Artists associated with this movement include Klimt and Gauguin.
What is symbolism?
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A long-bladed hand tool with a beveled cutting edge and a plain handle that is struck with a hammer or mallet, used to cut or shape wood, stone, metal, or other hard materials,
What is a chisel