MTTC Visual Art Education

The four steps of art criticism in order.

Description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment

Jackson Pollock's work is from what art movement?

Abstract expressionist

What is encaustic?

pigment mixed with hot beeswax

What are the standard frame sizes?

8x10 11x14 16x20 20x24 24x36 30x40

What is repoussoir?

Deliberate framing in the painting

What is a hack brush?

A large wide soft brush used for large areas in ink washes or watercolor

What is batik

Painting on fabric with wax

What is ISO

A setting in the camera that controls the amount of light the image needs

Art techniques invented in the Renaissances

Foreshortening, linear perspective, sfumato

What is metacognition?

awareness and understanding of one's own thinking/ thought processes.

Fauvism artwork uses

Strong colors, values impressionistic and is over representational

What art period are the sculptures Nike and Laocoon group from?

Hellenistic 2nd centry B.C.

What period was the sculpture Palette of King Narmer from?

Egyptian Old Kingdom 3100 B.C.

What was the Armory Show of 1913?

It was the first modern art exhibit in America. It took place on National Guard Armories.

What happens if oil paint is varnished too early?

It could turn tacky and not dry

What the Japanese fraise for imperfections?

Wabi-Sabi

What does PPI and DPI stand for?

PPI-Pixels per inches

DPI-Dots per inch (used in print making)

What is post and lintel construction?

technique in which a long stone or wooden beam is placed horizontally across upright posts

What is arabesque art?

A decretive repeating pattern in Islamic art. It consists fo a floral pattern, with lines and leaves.

What is a burin?

A printmaking tool that is used to engrave a metal plate

What are three photography techniques?

1. The rules of thirds

2. Frame within frame

3. The rules of odds

In a salon-style exhibition how is artwork hung?

It is hung at, above and below eye level, sometimes from floor to ceiling. This is for maximum wall coverage.

What is the correct proportion ration with measuring artwork?

W: H

Width first: Height second

Toxic paints

Cadmium's

Cobalt's

Manganese's

Lead-white

Chrome yellow

What is bisqueware?

Clay that has been fired once, and is ready to be glazed

What are the 5 types of ceramic clay?

Earthenware, Kaolin, Stoneware, Porcelain, ball and fire

What is greenware?

Clay that is dry and very fragile, ready to be fired

What was not accepted as a fine art until 1970?

Fashion

Romanticism

19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason

Romanticism artists

Eugene Delacroix

Théodore Géricactt

Thomas Cole

What is propaganda?

To achieve political objectives

Pre-Columbian culture is known for...

their architecture

African Art consist of...

Human figures, symmetry, geometry, bronze and wood.

Where does the flash attache to the camera?

hot shoot

What is dodging?

Decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter

What is juxtaposition?

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Art Nouveau

a style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western Europe and the US from about 1890 until World War I and characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.

What are vices, and what are they used for with wood carving?

They are C shaped clamps that are used for fixing the wood to the platform.

Why is it important to apply finish to wood work?

It helps protect the wood from discoloration, fingerprints and dry or damp atmosphere.

When and where was the graphite pencil first discovered?

In Bavaria year 1662

What is the most common binder for mixing oil paints.

Linseed oil

Hog hair brushes

Used in oil paints, and they tend to hold paint well.

What is the drying rate for oil paint?

2-20 days

What is a Mahl Sticks

A cane to rest of the canvas to steady the arm while painting.

How was traditional tempera paints made?

Mixing pigment and distilled water with the yolk of fresh hen's eggs.

What are the three main categories of water color paper?

hot press, cold press, and rough

What is the oldest drawing material?

Charcoal

What is a clutch pencil?

Similar to a mechanical pencil with a range of different lead sizes.

What is silverpoint?

It is a a pencil of silver that's used to draw on top of painted paper only.

Where is the origins of print making?

China

What is the most basic form of printmaking?

Relief printing

Lithography works off the basis that...

grease and water do not mix

Who were the earliest frescos created by?

Minoans in Crete

What is a nadir point?

The lowest point of convergence in a drawing.

What is tempering?

A method for altering the hardness and elasticity of metal by heating it to a high temp. and then cooling the metal.

What is riveting?

A joining process involving a short metal pin or bolt for holding together two plates of metal.

What is drypoint?

An intaglio printmaking process where something is draw onto a plate using a sharp pointed needle shaped tool.

What does sfumato mean?

its Italian for "Gone up in smoke", Leonardo Da Vinci used this with the Mona Lisa

What is super-realism and artists who create in super-realism?

Objects of rendered into an unreal setting (juxtaposition). Dali, Chagall, and Georgia O'Keeffe

What are open edition prints?

Not original prints. They are not signed or numbered by the artist. They can be found in posters or in small forms, they are never short of supply.

what is Achromatic?

White, black, or gray artwork with no color.

What is the color spectrum?

The distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism into its hues.

What does Sumerian art typically feature?

Large over sized eyes in sculptures.

The visual differences between Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns?

Church of the Holy Wisdom

-Also known as Hagia Sophia

-Largest church in christianity at the time of Justinian

Ebbo Gospels

Gospel Book of Otto III

Who is Cimabue?

One of the last great Italian artist of the Byzantine style. His work was done in fresco.

Who is the inventor of modern oil paint as we know it today?

Jan Van Eyck

Who made Garden of Earthly Delights?

Jerome Bosch in 1505

Baptistery in Florence was made out of what?

10 bronze Old Testament relief tiles

Tribute Money, Masaccio

Early Renaissance

Who created the Birth of Venus?

Sandro Botticelli

When was the High Renaissance?

1490-1520

Whats was Albrecht Durer main medium?

Print making

What does a camera's ISO settings do?

The sensor's sensitivity to light

What is the enameling process?

Powdered glass is fused to a surface and melted to a smooth shiny coating.

How is a gargoyle different from a grotesque?

A gargoyle spits out water while a grotesque does not.

What is exposure bracketing in photography?

Taking a photo at the correct exposure, one overexposed, and one underexposed.

What is a GIF file?

It is a compressed small file and can have transparent backgrounds.

Famous painters from the New York Hudson River School in the mid-19th century

Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Edwin Church

What is it called when an artist lived at the same time as another artist?

Contemporary

What is the description of repoussé?

Hammering a design into a metal in a low relief on the reverse side.

Pointillism does was to the viewers eye?

allows optical color mixing

What is the cerography printmaking process?

An image is engraved into a layer of wax on a metal surface.

What was the first type of photograph invented by Niépce?

Heliograph

the difference between halftone and Ben-Day dots?

Halftone dots create a gradient effect with different sizes.

What was the Ancient Egyptians attitude words art?

Art was functional, provided an idealized view of the world, and maintained order.

When a art critic analyzes a painting for elements or principles and no other meanings it is know as a...

Formalism art critique

What does iconography mean?

What a work is about

What is the goal of an East Asian sumo-e brush?

to capture the spirit of a subject

what is representational work?

Using signs that stand for something else

Helen Frankenthaler uses what element of art in her work?

Color

What is the wooden frame used in paper-making called?

a Deckle

Who spoke out against racism and sexism in the art world

The Guerrilla Girls

What is a kylix?

drinking cup that is wide and shallow

What is a mandorla?

a circle of light encompassing the whole body of a divine figure

What is an aureola?

another name for nimbus/halo

What is a gisant

Dogs at the feet of a dead person, guiding them to the after life

What is a pagoda?

a tower-shaped structure with several stories and roofs