Art Appreciation 2.1 – Flashcards
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define their ideas plan for larger projects resolve design issues in preparatory sketches record their visual observations
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Artists draw to...
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When Raphael was preparing to paint his ______ The School of Athens he did a large drawing called a ________ to help place the design on the wall.
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fresco; cartoon
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Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil number would be the darkest?
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9B
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In her self-portrait, the artist Ilka Gedo used pencil and varied the _________ in order to suggest texture, create emphasis, and to produce darker values.
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pressure
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Color pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and _______.
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wax
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This drawing medium utilized a piece of silver wire set in a holder.
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silverpoint
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When creating his silverpoint drawing Heads of the Virgin and Child, Raphael employed ______ a process in which the artist uses closely arranged parallel lines to create value.
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hatching
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Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30, 000 BCE.
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charcoal
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Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment with ________.
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binder
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Artists' chalk is powered calcium carbonate combined with this binder.
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gum arabic
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Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with _______
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wax
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This red chalk was used by Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo in his Studies for the Libyan Sibyl.
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sanguine ("blood red")
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The French Impressionist Edgar Degas used this dry drawing medium when he created The Tub in 1886.
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pastel
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The French artist Georges Seurat created a study for his huge painting La Grande Jatte using this waxy medium
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Conte crayon
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Erasers can be used by artists as drawing tools. In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter.
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Willem de Kooning
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This contemporary version of carbon ink is a favorite of comic book artists (Vincent van Gogh used it in Sower with Setting Sun)
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india ink
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Quills are a common tool for ink drawing. They were originally made from _________.
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bird feathers
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East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a _______.
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brush
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An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by ________.
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diluting with water
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In the ink brush painting of bamboo by Wu Zhen, the work is created in a way that expresses the central beliefs of balanced opposites from this religion.
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Taoism
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The album of brush paintings by the Chinese artist Wu Zhen was created as an instructional model to help this person learn the art of brushwork.
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his son
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In addition to its fiber content and weight, paper is also classified by its surface texture. What is the type of paper that is created on a screen with a grid-like structure?
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wove
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This is the practice of drawing from a live model or other actual objects.
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life drawing
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In the gestural drawing Muscular Dynamism by Umberto Boccioni, the artist used chalk and charcoal to depict the undulating surface of ________.
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the human body
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This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.
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contour
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the two-dimensional area the boundaries of which are defined by lines or suggested by changes in color or value
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Shape
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an object that can be defined in three dimensions (height, width, depth)
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Form
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a mark, or implied mark, between two endpoints
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Line
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a rough preliminary version of a work or part of a work
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Sketch
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a technique where the artist paints onto freshly applied plaster
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Fresco
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the material on or from which an artist chooses to make a work of art
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Medium (plural media)
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the surface quality of a work, for example fine/coarse, detailed/lacking in detail
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Texture
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the principle of drawing attention to particular content in a work
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Emphasis
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the lightness or darkness of a plane or area
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Value
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the part of a work depicted as behind the main figures
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Background
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the colorant in art materials; often made from finely ground materials
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Pigment
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the optical effect caused when white light of the spectrum is divided into a separate wavelength
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Color
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a characteristic way in which an artist uses visual language to give a work an identifiable form of visual expression
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Style
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a period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century
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Renaissance
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the surface or background onto which an artists paints or draws
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Ground
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capable of stirring the emotions of the viewer
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Expressive
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the person, object, or space depicted in a work of art
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Subject
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a drastic difference between such elements as color or value
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Contrast
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an area of lightest value in a work
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Highlight
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a substance that makes pigments adhere to a surface
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Binder
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the use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness
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Cross-hatching
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the part of a work depicted as nearest to the viewer
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Foreground
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the overall design or organization of a work
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Composition
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the center of interest or activity in a work of art, often drawing the viewer's attention to the most important element
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Focal point
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a work in which the ideas are often important as how it is made
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Conceptual art
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a sculpture or artwork made by pouring a liquid into a mold
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Cast
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the regular or ordered repetition of elements in a work
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Rhythm
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having height, width, and depth
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Three-dimensional
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the outermost line of an object or figure by which it is defined or bounded
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Outline
