Art Class Terms

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What is scribbling?

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Random, multidirectional lines that create tones, textures, densities, or illusions of mass

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What is a calligraphic line?

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"beautiful line" the beauty of the line takes presidence over legibility in the visual arts

Front 3

Way is a contour line an important exercise?

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It trains your drawing hand and your hand/eye coordination at the same time.

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the expressiveness of drawing is determined by what three things?

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1. choice of drawing instrument

2. surface materials

3. technique combined with skill and manlipulation

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Texture

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surface character that is experienced through touch

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Actual Texture

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How something actually feels when you touch it

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Simulated texure

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Drawn texture that is an illusion of actual texture

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Uniform texture

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texture that appear to be very similar together to create a tight harmony

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Invented texture

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a fictional or improvised texture created to heighten the imagined description

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Frottage

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"rubbing" a technique where you place a piece of paper over a textured area and rub the paper with a charcoal piece making a positive impression

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rendering

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a drawing displaying a high degree of detailed representation

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Tromp L'oeil

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"decieve the eye" rendering in it's most meticulous form. It makes the audience think that they are looking at the actual object

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Textural character is determined by what four factors?

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1. the nature of the surface being shown
2. what materials are used
3. the way the materials are used
4. the course inventiveness on the artists part

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What is composition?

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The skelental structure of the a picture

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Composition begins with what?

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It begins with the first four lines outlineing the border

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What is picture plane?

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the area inside the border of the paper that the artist draws on

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What is a closed composition?

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The composition is enclosed in the border

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What is a open compositiion

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the subject extends outside the border of the paper

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What is symmetrical Balance

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the divideing of a picture so that the two halves are identical

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what is a-symmetrical Balance

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when there is a clear sense if uneven weight to the picture

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What is the directional quality of a vertical line?

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a feeling of alertness, dignity, stability, strength

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what is the directional quality of a horizontal line?

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calm, restful, suggestive of peace, and infinity

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what is the directiional quality of a diagonal line?

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Dynamic, suggestive of action, complements vertical and horizontal lines

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what is the directional quality of a curved line?

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grace, elegance, and flowing movements

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What is shape?

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the flat, 2-D definition of a form

Front 26

Explain two ways that an artist can make the illusion of depth

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1. overlapping
2. making objects get smaller was they go farther back in the picture

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what's the difference between open and closed forms?

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open forms flow into the surrounding areas without noticable separations. closed forms are confined in the contour of the shape

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Burnishing

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repeated layering of color that caused a surface to be shiny

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Wax Bloom

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An advanced stage of burnishing that produces a foggy quality that is bad

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How do you use workable fixative to fix wax bloom?

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the spray can add texture so that you can go over it again with the colored pencil