Mrs. Sit's Drawing B Study Guide for Final Test 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Composition | The plan/placement/arrangement of the elements of art in artwork |
| Aesthetics | Identifying the artwork's beauty/taste/function |
| Renaissance | Rebirth of art, science and literature in Europe |
| Italy | The birthplace of the Renaissance in the 1400's |
| Feldman's | A method of critiquing artwork using description, analysis, interpretation and judgment |
| Elements of Art | The basic building blocks of every artwork |
| Principles of Design | The tools for arranging the Elements of Art |
| Brunelleschi | Renaissance architect and inventor of linear perspective |
| Giotto | Father of Renaissance painting |
| Massacio | First to demonstrate true linear perspective by painting The Trinity |
| Albrecht Durer | Pioneered multiple vanishing point perspective |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Established atmospheric perspective |
| Vanishing point | The point at which things disappear |
| Linear perspective | Where converging lines meet at a vanishing point; creates a feeling of vast space |
| Anamorphic | Stretched or distorted |
| Horizon line | Eye level, or where the sky meets the earth |
| Rene Magritte | Surrealist artist from Belgiuim; used clouds as symbolism in many paintings |
| Surrealism | A 20th century art form that appears real, yet dream-like or irrational |
| Salvador Dali | Spanish Surrealist, worked in a variety of media; known for "Persistence of Memory" |
| Max Ernst | Surrealist painter & sculptor from Germany; his statue "Capricorn" is in the Nelson |
| M. C. Escher | Dutch surrealist; specialized in printmaking and in seemingly complex illusions |
| Relief (sculpture) | Sculpture that projects from a flat background |
| Repousse | A form of relief; metal tooling |
| Culture | Learned & shared beliefs, values, interests, attitudes, products or patterns of behavior at a local, social, regional, national or international level |
| Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that has universal appeal |
| Copper | A malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant metallic element |
| Brass | An alloy of copper and zinc |
| Patina | A sheen on a surface resulting from age, treatment and/or use |
| Subtractive carving | Reducing or taking away from the material |
| Plaster | A sculpture material made from gypsum |
| Appendages | Extensions or limbs |
| Inuits | Native Americans known also as Eskimos |
| Stone, bone or ivory | Typical sculpture materials of the Inuit |
| Inuit subject matter | Daily life, nature and spiritual beliefs |
| Stylized | Simplified and/or exaggerated |
| Abstract | Nonrepresentational art style |
| Alaska and Canada | Regions where the Inuits live |
| Mythological | Imaginary or fictitious |
| In the round | Sculpture which has 360〫viewpoints |
| Relief | Sculpture in which form projects from a background. |
| Reductive printmaking | Printing from a depressed surface; subtracting from the plate before printing another color |
| Brayer | Small roller to apply ink |
| Burnishing | Smoothing the paper on the plate with a tool |
| Plate | The surface image that is inked for printing |
| Edition | Series of prints from the same plate |
| Carving | Creating an image by taking away from the surface of the material (subtractive method) |
| To pull a print | Removing the print starting at the corner |
| Linoleum | A floor covering material used for printmaking |
| Ukiyo-e | Japanese woodblock printing; translation: "pictures of the floating world" |
| Hiroshige & Hokusai | Famous Japanese printmakers |
| Six aspects of Japanese prints | Stylized, dynamic compositions using unusual viewpoints, flat & bright colors and expressive lines |
| Printmaking | The art of creating multiples of images from a treated surface |
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