Chapter 8, 9, 10 Living with Art – Flashcards
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Monotype Life is a dream, then you wake up
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single print unique impression from a plate worked with oil paint, sometimes uses plexiglass or some other glassy surface (chagoya)
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Edition
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total number of prints made from plate/block
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Lithography curtain
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a printing process in which the image to be printed is rendered on a flat surface, as on sheet zinc or aluminum, and treated to retain ink while the non-image areas are treated to repel ink, started printing process of colored posters (guston)
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Diamond Sutra
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woodcut, an important Buddhist text
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Relief Print
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any printing method in which the image to be printed is raised from a background
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Registration
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the precise alignment of impressions made by two or more printing blocks or plates on the same sheet of paper, as when printing an image in several colors
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Intaglio
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the lines or areas that will take the ink are incised into the printing plate, rather than raised above it, includes mezzotint, etching, engraving, drypoint, and aquatint
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Mezzotint sequoia and moon
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itaglio printmaking technique produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade (celmins)
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Rocker
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roughens printing plate, which creates a fine pattern of burrs for mezzotint
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Cancelled Block/Plate
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after entire edition has been printed, approved, signed, and numbered, the printing surface is destroyed so that no further prints can be made from it
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Eadweard Muybridge's Galloping Horse
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He did these photographs to prove all 4 legs were off the ground
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Camera Obscura
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a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface, early form of projector, latin for dark room, developed during the renaissance, a drawing aid for realistic paintings
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Yin Yang
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the ancient symbol from Chinese philosophy that embodies a worldview of mutual interdependence
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Photojournalism
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photograph that tells a news story, the art or practice of communicating news by photographs, especially in magazines
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Daguerreotype
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the first practical photographic process, invented by Jacques Louis Mande Daguerre and made public in 1839, it produced a single permanent image directly on a prepared copper plate
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Alfred Stieglitz
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the individual most responsible for establishing photography as an art form, photographed The Steerage and did pure photography
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Rayogram
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An image created by placing objects on light sensitive paper
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Lumiere Brothers
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first invented workable motion-picture projector
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Drawback of Daguerreotype
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It required long sittings and it could not be reproduced.
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Kodak
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camera in 1888, made easier for people to take pictures, changed the history of photography created by George Eastman
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Auteur
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a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
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Nam June Paik
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fascinated by television sets, best known for his video art, TV Buddha, videotape still Global Groove
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Henri De Toulousse- Lautrec
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often designed Moulin Rouge dance hall posters
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Printing Press
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made the production of printed materials faster and easily distributed
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Symbols
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convey information or embody ideas
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Industrial Revolution
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increased the commercial applications of graphic design as manufacturers needed to market themselves competitively
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Cook and Shanosky
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graphic design team developed the familiar set of symbols used today to communicate information across language barriers to international travelers
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Cassidy Curtis Graffiti Archaeology
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is organized by location and time to effectively display its subject
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Commercial Art
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graphic design use to be called
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Logo
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symbols of an organization or product, best way to create corporate identity
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Albrecht Durer
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created a unified alphabet that could be printed to the masses, went to Italy for seven years, famous wood block artist, magic square
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Inkjet
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microscopic nozzles spray droplets of ink onto paper according to data in digital image file
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Paul Rand
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designer in the 1960's designed a lot of memorable logos like the IBM, UPS and ABC logos
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etching christ preaching
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An Intaglio printmaking process in which a metal plate coated with wax is drawn upon with a sharp tool down to the plate and then placed in an acid bath. The acid eats into the plate where the lines have been drawn, the wax is removed, and then the plate is inked and printed. (rembrandt)
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engraving saint jerome
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an intaglio process in which grooves are cut into a metal or wood surface with a sharp cutting tool called a burin or graver. Also, the resulting print. (durer)
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drypoint spider
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a printmaking technique (intaglio) involving drawing directly onto the surface of a metal plate with a sharp, pointed tool, often with a diamond point (bourgeois)
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aquatint
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A way of achieving flat areas of tone: gray or intermediate values of color (goya)
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Movable Type
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created by Johannes Gutenburg and bibile was the first book it created
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woodcut autumn glory
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oldest printing method (mei)
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linocut workers of the world
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A relief printmaking technique in which the printing surface is a thick layer of linoleum, often mounted on a wooden block for support. Areas that will not print are cut away, leaving raised areas to take the ink. (kent)
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screenprinting
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a printmaking technique in which stencils are applied to fabric stretched across a frame. Paint or ink is forced with a squeegee through the unblocked portions of the screen onto paper or other surface beneath. Easiest; stencil applied with fabric stretched over frame; Not a reverse image
