Unit 3 concepts and question- art apperiction

Ideas quickly jotted down for later development are called ____________

sketches

____________ was the predecessor of the graphite pencil and was especially popular during the Renaissance

Metalpoint

____________ is added to graphite to produce pencils that range from very hard to very soft

clay

The coloring material in virtually all drawing media is known as

pigment

______________ is a substance that allows drawing media to be shaped into sticks (for dry media) or suspended in fluid (for liquid media), and to adhere to the drawing surface

Binder

_________ is an example of a liquid medium used in drawing, painting, and writing.

Ink

The ________ is the part of the pen that determines the quality of the link (think, thin, even in width or variable, coarse, or flowing).

nib

A _________ and _________ is a type of drawing medium that is most likely to produce a line that swells in the middle, but tapers at both ends.

Brush and ink

Pasting or gluing paper onto paper to create a drawing was first popularized by Georges Braque in the early 20th century. This genre is called __________ today

collage

In the 1970’s, Mexican American prisoners were provided with ____________ as surfaces to create drawings on to communicate with loved ones outside of prison.

Handkerchiefs

Before painting on a canvas or panel, an artist generally applies an _________ to improve adhesion of paints

Primer

What painting technique, used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, involves the use of wax? _____________

Encaustic

In Buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water applied to ____________

Wet plaster

Which type of paint is an example of a nonaqueous medium? _________________

Oil paint

What can a pastel artist do that is similar to the process of painting?

Moving it around with a stiff paint brush either with or without the help of water

What is the primary characteristic of watercolors? ________

Transparency

___________ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment

Gouache

What medium, invented in the twentieth century, resembles oil paint, but dries very quickly and is far more durable? ________________

acrylic

What does Faith Ringgold incorporate in her mixed media artwork Street Story Quilt? _______________

Quilted Fabric

What type of medium is frequently used in post-internet art?

digital software

What are the four basic printmaking processes

1. Relief

2. Intaglio

3. Lithography

4. screen printing

In printmaking a ___________ is a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper

Matrix

A rubber stamp creates what type of print? ____________

Relief

____________ is the precise alignment of impressions made by two or more printing

Registration

In lithography, what is the greasy crayon called? ___________

Tusche

What printing process is considered the most direct and effortless, features that lead to its use in daily newspapers? __________________

Lithography

What term is used to describe “silk writing”

serigraphy

When an edition is complete, what will typically happen to the matrix

The matrix should be canceled or destroyed so that no further prints can be made from it

Except in the case of _____________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking

Monotype

The technology of ______________ has changed printmaking, making the traditional use of a matrix

InkJet Printers

_________________ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous

censorship

During what time period did experiments with the camera obscura first begin?

Italian Renaissance

What 16th century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected?

lenses

What characteristic helps to define the style of “pure” or “straight” photography?

a photograph is not cropped or manipulated in anyway

What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?

lighweight & easy portability

The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as

photojournalism

Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event?

Great Depression

For what purpose was color photography first widely used?

advertising

What is one of the benefits of digital photography?

alter them using imaging software

What subject was the study of of Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic experiments?

motion

What were the two developments that created graphic design?

The printing press & the Industrial Revolution

______,such as directional arrows, convey information and embody ideas.

symbol

_____ is often the first and key element in creating a complete corporate identity.

logo

What term is used to describe how text and images appear on a page?

Layouts

In typography, what are the short cross-line that end the principal strokes of individual letters?

serifs

In 1525, with the advent of moveable type,_________created a unified alphabet that could be mass-produced.

albrecht purer

What celebrated nineteenth-century artist created posters for the cabarets and dance halls of Paris?

by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

What message was conveyed in Shepard Fairey’s immensely popular poster that became the unofficial symbol of Barak Obama’s preesidential campaign?

HOPEWha

What aspect of media design has been introduced by the digital revolution?

Interactivity

What artist often blurred thee line between commercial design and fine art?

Andy Warhol