Final Flashcards

(50 cards)

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What a work of art is about, it’s subject matter, as interpreted by the viewer

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Content

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Does not represent refer to the visible world

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Nonobjective art

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Purposefully simplifies, fragments, or distort recognizable form from the visible world

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Abstract art

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Present the natural world and such a way that one recognizes a likeness

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Representational art

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5
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Texar could be either implied or actual

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True

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Another term for asymmetrical balance

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Informal balance

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Designers blueprint for a work such as a book

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Layout

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A type of style

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Typeface

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Line, shape, mass, light, value, color, texture, and space

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Elements

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A thick application of paint onto a canvas or other support

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An impasto

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Raphael used what implied shape to unify the composition in the madonna of the meadow

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Triangle

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12
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What colors cannot be mixed

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Red yellow and blue or primary colors

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Although no definite line separate crafts from other objects, one helpful distinction is that

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In crafts there is a special emphasis on the materials used

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Unity and variety, balance, emphasis and subordination, proportion and scale, and rhythm are considered the

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Principles of design

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In a two dimensional work of art that is balance symmetry, the implied center of gravity is

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Along the vertical axis down the center of the composition

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16
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Calligraphy is part of the four basic printmaking processes

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False

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For encaustic, the medium or binder is made of

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Hot wax

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18
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Italian word for to cut

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Intaglio

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19
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Goache is a watercolor medium into which …. has been added

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And inert white pigment

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20
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The most common medium oil paint

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Linseed oil

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21
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Relief printing process is used during

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Rubber stamps

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Subtractive processes include

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The technique of true fresco pigment is mixed with water and applied to

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An example of nonaqueous medium

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The coloring material in virtually all drawing and painting media
Pigment
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The substance in which the paint is suspended
Medium
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Which of the visual elements can best be described as the path of the moving point
Line
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What event prompted Pablo Picasso to create the painting Guernica
The devastation of a Spanish city by nazi bombers
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Refers to size relationships between parts of a whole
Proportion
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In sculpture the term contrapposto means that the figure is
Pose with the weight of the body shifted onto 1 foot
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Sculpture in which the subject project very slightly from the background is called
Low relief
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The ability of a material to span horizontal distances without continuous support from below
Tensile strength
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And example of record and commemorate
Jahangir recieved a cup from khusrau
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Shiva Lord of the dance is an example art that
Gives tangible form to the unknown
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An example of artist creating extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
Kente clothes of Africa
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appreciation of a work of art can be enhanced greatly by knowing
It’s place in art history and how and why was made
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According to recent research, Stonehenge
Marks a graveyard and possibly a religious complex
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The oldest cave paintings known today were made around
30,000 B.C.E.
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Paleolithic means
Old Stone Age
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Artist use Charwood in order to produce
Charcoal drawings
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Pastel is made up of
Pigment found with a non-greasy binder
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What is not a task for artist according to the author
To help us see the world in the same way that we see it
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The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built
Tombs
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Vanitas paintings meditate on
The fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness
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Starry night is an example of art that
Gives tangible forms to feelings and ideas
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… Is the name for a standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross
pieta
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Size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art
Form
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Involves identifying describing in interpreting subject matter in the art
Iconography
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A black-and-white photograph of a scene illuminates the Hues and intensities of colors but captures the… Of the colors
Values
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Three physical properties of color
Value intensity and hue