Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
68 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What makes up paint?
|
Pigment+Vehicle+Binder = Paint
|
|
|
Pigment
|
Powdered color
|
|
|
Vehicle
|
Spreads pigment
|
|
|
Binder
|
Liquid that holds particles of pigment
|
|
|
Support
|
Material paint is applied to
|
|
|
Ground/Primer
|
Preliminary coating
|
|
|
Medium
|
material & its accompanying technique
|
|
|
What is Tempora paints?
|
1. Not applied in thick layers
2. Doesn't have deep color sturation 3. Dries quickly 4. Binder = egg yolk |
|
|
What is Encaustic paints?
|
1. Pigments mixed with wax.
2. When colors are heating the wax melts & the paint is brushed easily. 3. Wax hardens. |
|
|
What is oil paints?
|
1. Consists of pigments mixed w/ vegetable oil.
2. Binder = oil, creating transparent film. 3. Advantages- colors can be blended subtly & work on sections. |
|
|
Who invented oil painting?
|
Brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck
|
|
|
What is impasto?
|
Paint applied thickly
|
|
|
Grisaille paints?
|
Complete the painting in black and white, then color in with glazes
|
|
|
What are glazes?
|
Thin translucent veirs of color applied over previously painted surfaces
|
|
|
What are water colors?
|
- Consists of pigment in a vehicle of water
- transparent |
|
|
What are acrylics?
|
-Came in 1950's
-Most versatile paint, strong, weather proof, fast drying, doesn't change color over time. |
|
|
What is collage?
|
-"pasting" or "gluing"
-*picasso, george braque* helped pioneer this. |
|
|
What is matrix?
|
(plates)
-The surface on which a design is prepared |
|
|
What is an impression?
|
The printed image
|
|
|
What is registration?
|
System that verifies paper & print line up correctly
|
|
|
What is press?
|
The equipment used to make the impression
|
|
|
What is editioning?
|
The number of impressions yielded by a matrix.
|
|
|
What is relief?
|
Like a stamp.
- Cuts away all areas of plate surface not meant to carry ink. |
|
|
What is intalgio?
|
Italian, for "to cut"
-opposite of relief, you cut the lines and grooves you want. |
|
|
What is collagraph?
|
Combining glue and textured colors on a plate, then sealed with adhesives, inked, and printed.
|
|
|
What is a monotype?
|
-Only print form that doesn't create editions.
-One type |
|
|
What is lithography?
|
-Planographic process which means that printing is done on a flat surface.
-Draw with grease materials |
|
|
What are some screen printing characteristics?
|
-Use screens, stencils, exposing unit to produce an image.
-Use a squegee tool to pull ink across the screen. -Don't have to reverse the image. |
|
|
What is the most common example of a relief print?
|
Stamp
|
|
|
Explain the etching process
|
Ground acid resistant substance coats the metal plate, artist draws easily through ground w/ a pointed tool exposing metal underneath, plate is then immersed into a tray of acid, "bites" the plate where the drawing has exposed the metal. Now the drawing is embedded in plate forever.
|
|
|
Rue Transonian
|
Cops came in for a domestic disturbance and shot people.
|
|
|
Define photography
|
Process in art of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light sensitive medium, such as a film or an electronic sensor.
|
|
|
How did photography begin?
|
Camera obscura= "dark room", reflected sunlight passing through small hole of darkened room projects onto opposite wall an inverted image.
|
|
|
What's a daguerreotype?
|
1st practical photographic process (Jacques Daguerra), public in 1839.
*On copper plate* |
|
|
What is heliography?
|
Sundrawing, b/c image was produced by exposure to the sun. (Joseph Niepce, from France)
|
|
|
What is a calotype?
|
Produced negative image, allowed unlimited low cost of multiples. *Gold to photographers*
|
|
|
1st photo company in America?
|
Kodak, 1888, George Eastman.
-Dry, transparent, flexible photog film roll. -100 photos. |
|
|
What is straight/pure photography?
|
No technical manipulation of negative, directly of a scene.
|
|
|
What is a decisive moment?
|
The significant event as well as proper organization of forms which give that even proper expression.
|
|
|
Who is Alfred Stieglitz?
|
-married to Georgia O Keeffe
-Took the photo of two levels of people on a boat |
|
|
What is photojournalism?
|
Documents significant parts of history
|
|
|
Who is Dorothea Lange?
|
Took picture of the lady holding her children, took very emotional photos.
|
|
|
Who is Lewis Hine?
|
-Used camera as a tool for social reform
|
|
|
What is a rayograph?
|
When you place an object on light sensitive paper, and expose it to light that would darken the paper, leaving a shadow of white tracing around where the object was.
|
|
|
What is Wallace Bermans, Untitled photo about?
|
Uses the a-track to tell a story
|
|
|
3 main points of photography?
|
1. An index of reality, offers best transcription of world around us.
2. Photog is a true democratic art form b/c its so common. Hard history in art. 3. First completely reproducible medium. |
|
|
What does in the round/ freestanding mean?
|
Sculpture viewed from all sides by walking around entire works and viewing angles.
|
|
|
What is high/low relief?
|
Low- Figures projected minimally
High- Projected substantially creating a lot of shadow. |
|
|
What is modeling?
|
Manupulative and additive process in which materials are added to the sculpture until it is finished. (clay)
|
|
|
What is casting?
|
Substitution that involes a mold of some kind. Material is poured and allowed to harden. (bronze)
|
|
|
What is photojournalism?
|
Documents significant parts of history
|
|
|
Who is Dorothea Lange?
|
Took picture of the lady holding her children, took very emotional photos.
|
|
|
Who is Lewis Hine?
|
-Used camera as a tool for social reform
|
|
|
What is a rayograph?
|
When you place an object on light sensitive paper, and expose it to light that would darken the paper, leaving a shadow of white tracing around where the object was.
|
|
|
What is Wallace Bermans, Untitled photo about?
|
Uses the a-track to tell a story
|
|
|
3 main points of photography?
|
1. An index of reality, offers best transcription of world around us.
2. Photog is a true democratic art form b/c its so common. Hard history in art. 3. First completely reproducible medium. |
|
|
What does in the round/ freestanding mean?
|
Sculpture viewed from all sides by walking around entire works and viewing angles.
|
|
|
What is high/low relief?
|
Low- Figures projected minimally
High- Projected substantially creating a lot of shadow. |
|
|
What is modeling?
|
Manupulative and additive process in which materials are added to the sculpture until it is finished. (clay)
|
|
|
What is casting?
|
Substitution that involes a mold of some kind. Material is poured and allowed to harden. (bronze)
|
|
|
What is carving?
|
Subtractive process in which one starts with a massive object and sculpts it down until desired amount remains. (stone, wood)
|
|
|
What is assembling?
|
Additive process by which use pieces, segments, or objects to bring together to form sculpture.
|
|
|
What are installations?
|
Art form which an entire room is treated as a work of art. Entering and experiencing, usually temp.
|
|
|
What is a kinetic sculpture?
|
A sculpture that moves.
|
|
|
What is mixed media?
|
Use of variety of materials in a single work.
|
|
|
What is a site specific purpose?
|
Creating something specifically for one place. Either temporarily or for a long time.
|
|
|
What is the weather project?
|
Olafur Eliasson, set up lights to make it look like the sun had risen, and made mist come out. Very strange for the people since it was winter time.
|
|
|
Christo & Jean Claude?
|
Couple that did some site specific sculptures.
|
