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Dry media |
offers unique and versatile properties |
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pencil |
graphite softer = darker b or h |
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silverpoint |
drawing metal silver wire set in a holder usually wood |
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charcoal |
smudges easily strong dark tones solid not linear vine charcoal from braces soft compressed charcoal dense ad binder |
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chalk |
powdered mixed with gum arabic (tree sap) pigment |
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pastel |
gum arabic, wax, oil pigment |
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crayon |
wax pigment |
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Binder |
a substance that makes pigments adhere to a surface oil wax gum glue type gives material character |
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pigment |
the colorant in art materials made from finely ground minerals |
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hatching |
non overlapping parallel lines create light and dark |
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cross hatching |
overlapping parallel lines to create light and dark |
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wet media |
applied with brushes or pens dry as liquid evaporates |
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ink |
permanent precise and dark carbon ink soot+water+gum discolor over time |
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quill |
bird feather carved to a point |
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pen |
employ cross and hatching |
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brush |
writing and drawing uses ink |
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paper |
papyrus cloth animal hide wood before paper |
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gesture drawing |
identify and react to main visual and expressive characteristics of a form capture the energy of movement |
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contour drawing |
register qualities of 3d by rendering the outline |
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medium |
the area or form artist uses to work on |
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support |
the material on which painting is done |
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encaustic |
pigment mixed with wax not flexible used in ancient times |
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tempera |
pigment mixed with egg yolk dries immediately |
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fresco |
painting on plaster wet (buon) completa in small sections daily with wet plaster and has permanency dry (fresco secco) |
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Oil |
pigment mixed with linseed oil early renaissance very flexible slow drying thin layers called glazes luminosity high detail applied thickly like impasto |
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acrylic |
pigment suspended in acrylic polymer resin dries quickly cleans up w water |
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watercolor |
pigment mixed with water and gum arabic transparent |
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goauche |
opaque watercolor with chalk additive
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luminosity |
bright glowing quality |
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impasto |
paint applied in thick layers |
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restoration of sistine chapel |
cleaning frescoes 9 years bright colors |
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illusion and transformation of ideas |
close uses a grid the works with each cell thumbprints and self portrait |
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ceramics |
comes from greek word for pottery |
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wedging |
kneaded to work out pockets of air
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shaping and modeling |
hands methods to shape or by using a potters wheel |
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kiln |
high temp oven that clay is fired in |
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glaze |
(liquid slip) applied after oven give glass like finish watertight adds color and texture oven again |
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plasticity |
materials that are soft and can be manipulated |
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throwing |
process of making a ceramic on a potter wheel |
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slab construction |
flattened out clay cut into desired shapes
join corners to make 3d organic forms |
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glass |
made by applying intense heat to melt silica (usually sand) |
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glassblowing |
forming a glass vessel by forcing air into molten glass usually by blowing through a tube |
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stained glass |
colored glass used for windows or decorative application |
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metalwork |
can be worked with hot or cold gold is easy to shape |
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hammering |
laying thin sheet of metal over object then hammering the metal until the shape and texture are imprinted in the metal |
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lost wax casting |
took more than 2 years to make heat the metal put wax in the center used as a mold |
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fiber |
threads made form animal or vegetable materials and even synthetic (nylon polyester) can be spun knitted or woven fur wool silk cotton flax or linen |
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embroidery |
the thread is applied using stitching bayeux tapestry battle of hastings |
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wood |
organic plant based material deteriorates over time cut carve sanding heated and shaped |
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intarsia |
the art of setting pieces of wood into a surface to create a pattern |
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in the round |
a freestanding sculptured work that can be viewed from all sides |
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freestanding |
sculptures made so we can stand around them |
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relief |
a raised form on a largely flat background a coin is "in relief" |
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bas relief |
little depth |
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high relief |
lots of depth carved into sculpture |
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akhenaten |
woman is just as important (ruled) sun deeply carved important rays go towards royal family = help them |
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carving |
made by subtracting material stone ivory or wood |
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modeling |
artist buildings up the work by adding material such as clay and wax |
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armature |
a frame work or skeleton used to support a sculpture |
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casting |
a sculpture or artwork made by pouring a liquid into a mold additive |
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lost wax casting riace bronze warrior |
create armature
add clay add wax and create detail clay sand used to cover wax holes drilled liquid poured into mold put in kiln cooled remove extras |
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patina |
surface color or texture on metal caused by aging |
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earthworks |
monumental sculptures that used the surface of the earth itself as material additive |
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construction |
variety of methods used to create and out together different parts to make a whole |
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readymades |
an everyday object present as a work of art ie handle bars as longhorn horns |
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artifacts |
an object made by person |
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found objects |
an object found by an artist and presented with little or no alteration as part of a work or as a finished work of art |
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appropriation |
the deliberate incorporation in an artwork of material originally created by other artists |
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kinetic sculpture |
3d sculpture that moves by air motor or people |
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site specific |
a work of art created for a specific place or environment |
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monumental |
having massive or impressive scale |
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installations |
an artwork created by the assembling and arrangement of objects in a specific location |
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load bearing |
simply make a pile and the structure to be able to hold it |
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post and lintel |
a horizontal beam (lintel) supported by a post at either end stone hedge and temple w statue |
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hypostyle hall |
a large room with a roof supported by a forest of columns |
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vaults |
an archlike structure supporting a ceiling or roof barrel vault long semicircle arch |
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domes |
an evenly curved vault like an arch but rotated 360 |
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flying buttress |
an arch built on the exterior of a building that transfers some of the weight go of the vault |
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rib vault |
an archlike structure supporting the ceiling or roof with a web of protruding stone work |
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nave |
central space of a cathedral or basilica |
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aisle |
in a basilica or other churches the spaces between the columns of the nave and the side walls |
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clerestory window |
a row of windows high up in a church to admit light into the nave |
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pendentive |
a curving triangular surface that links a dome to a square space above |
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wooden architecture |
made from wood a natural building material combines strength and beauty |
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balloon framing |
the fabrication of lightweight wooden frame to support the structure instead of utilizing heavy timbers |
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cast iron |
more flexible than stone cast into mold to make any shape |
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steel frame |
stronger than iron louis sullivan father of modernism form follows function |
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frank llyod wright |
create architecture in nature instead of viewing |
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reinforced concrete |
to avoid hard right angles of buildings made from bricks or blocks cement and ground stone fibrous or steel rods called rebars |
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postmodernism |
a later 20th century style of architecture playfully adopting features of earlier styles |
