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What are the four basic sculptural methods?
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modeling
casting carving assemblage |
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What are the most common materials used for modeling?
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clay and wax
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Modeling is the most ____ of all sculptural methods.
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direct
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Is modeling and additve or subtractive method?
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additve
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Casting is an ___ method.
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indirect
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What materials are used for casting?
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metals, aluminum, bronze
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Casting cab be hollow or solid?
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true
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What are the three reasons hollow casting is prefereed?
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lighter, less expensive, less likely to develop stress fractures
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What is the most common cast technique?
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lost wax or cire perdue
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Carving is the most ____ of the sculptural methods.
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aggressive
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Is carving subtractive or additive?
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subtractive
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What materials are used for carving?
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wood with a fibrous grains
stone with a crystalline grain |
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Who is the recognized master of stone carving?
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Michaelangelo Buonarotti
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What is assemblage?
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the process or method by which individual pieces or segments or objects are brought together to make sculpture
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What is the major reasons for sculptures populatiry in contemporary art?
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the use of techniques and materials that were unkown before the late 19th century
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Does sculpture have one of the longest histories of any aritistic media
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yes
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How is relief sculpture viewed?
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from the front only
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Relief sculpture has three deminsional depth but does not
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occupy space indepently as sculpture in the round does
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What are the two types of relief?
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low and bas and high
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The historic reference to a figure of a human is the representation of the___
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ideal
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What is contrapposto
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the potential for movement, produces subtle s curve
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comtemporary figural sculpture is exclusively ____
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anti-heroic
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What is lithography?
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the printing surface is flat, not raised as in relief or depressed. depends on the fact that oil and water do not mix. Can be done on limestone (preferred), zinc, or aluminum
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What is screen printing?
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most prefereed medium is silk, areas on the screen are blocked so that ink cannot get through and this creates the pic
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What is 2d media?
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drawing painting print making and photography(video, animation, film)
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What is 3d media?
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sculpture, architecture
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What two qualties are associasted with drawing?
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intamcy, familiarity
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What are the dry drawing mediums?
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• Pencil
• Metal point • Chalk and crayons • Charcoal |
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What is the liquid drawing mediums?
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pen and ink, brush and ink
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Why is painting the most prominant medium in art?
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it uses a full variety of color
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What is pigment?
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the powdered element in paint
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what is a medium binder
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the stuff that the pigment is suspended in, can be aqeous or non aqeous
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What are the painting mediums?
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•Encaustic—nonaqueous
•Oil—nonaqueous •Egg tempra, distempra, casein—aqueous when wet •Water color—aqueous •Fresco—nonaqueous •Gouache—aqueous—same as water color but more opaque •Acrylic/synthetic—aqueous when wet |
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What is a solvent/ vehicle used for?
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to thin paint and clean brushes, used to control the flow of the painting
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What is the binder in watercolor?
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gum arabic
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What is the ground/primer?
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material you put down on the surface before you paint, most common is jesa a gypsm polymer mix. The ground reduces paint waste, and prevents it from being absorbed
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What is the support?
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the thing you are painting on
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What was the first wide spread painting medium?
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encaustic, suspension of pigment in beeswax mixed with a resin, applied while it was wet.
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What is tempera?
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distilled water and egg yolk and remove yolk sac
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What is a relief print?
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rubber stamp method
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What is good about a linoleum cut?
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it does not have a grain so you can cut in any direction
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What is the intaglio process?
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done on a metal plate, area below the common surface is printed, etching, engraving, rub ink on surface then wipe off and ink is caught in grooves then run through a printing press.
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What is the duher used for?
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metal ingraving
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What is the bornisher for?
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used to polish down and soften values
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What is the scraper used for?
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three sided blade used to raise values quicklys
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What is a scribe used for?
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Sharp side for drawing, Dull side for etching
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What is the burnin used for?
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metal engraving
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What is the dry point used for?
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uses the scribe, creates a burr, scratches and scars the surface
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camera obscura
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• Originally the size of a shack, carried to locations
• Used originally as a drawing device • 1646 |
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What was the very first photo taken?
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Niepce, Windo view from Braus, 1826, pewter coated with silver
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Daguerre claimed the invention of photography.
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ture
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collodian process
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inexpensive, becomes the venue of the middle class entrepreneur
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What are the six photography subject matter?
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1.Portrative
2.Landscape 3.Here and Now 4.Photo Journalism—news worthy to fashion 5.Art 6.Motion—film video and animation |
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Who commissioned the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo?
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Pope Julius II
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What exactly did Michelangelo paint on the Sistine ceiling?
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Scenes from genesis, civils and prophets (the first Zacharia, he predicted the entry of Jesus on palm Sunday)
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What work did he return to paint in the chapel decades later?
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The Last Judgement
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What are the two “relics” of Michelangelo’s titanic effort?
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A bristle from one of his brushes , imprint of the palm of Michelangelo’s hand
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What is the Sistine Chapel used for in terms of official Roman Catholic church official tasks and religious holiday celebrations?
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papal conclaves
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How long did it take Michelangelo to paint the ceiling fresco? How long did it take to clean it?
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It took four years to paint it. It took twelve years to clean it, beginning in 1981
He began work on the chapel in 1508 |
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What was painted on the ceiling before Michelangelo’s work?
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golden stars on a blue ceiling
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Where and with who did Michelangelo begin this fresco?
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virterbo
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What years was da vinci alive?
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1452-1519
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What years was jabob lawrence alive?
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1917-2000
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When was the Harlem Reanaissance?
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1920s
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What medium did lawrence practice?
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painting
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What years was durer alive?
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1471-1528
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Was durer the first northern european who seemed moderns?
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yes
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Where was Durer born?
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nuremburg
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When was kollwitz alive?
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1867-1945
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What medium did Kollowitz do?
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prints and drawings
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What color did he normally do?
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black and white
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When was cameron alive?
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1815-1879
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What medium did cameron practice?
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photography
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Olowe of Ise death year?
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1938
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What medium did olowe practice?
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sculpture
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sfumuto
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smoke painting, puts translucent layers or glazes and a new type of are fot the time of the mona lisa 1503
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Unitl what point was oil painting the most popular form of painting
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1960
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What was the only painting medium to rival oil
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acrylic
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watercolor
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painting medium border line between painting and drawing. most are done on paper and have a pencil sketch outline
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Water colore does not do what
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yellow or darken overtime
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When was acrylic the dominant medium
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70s to 90s
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print making is the art of_____
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multiples
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Print making is direct of indirect?
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indirect
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