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what is relief printmaking- woodcut?
print blocks made by carving directly into the surface of a smooth pice of wood and removing any parts that are not meant to be part of the image.
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what is engraving?
the oldest form of intaglio printmaking. created by using sharp tools to make a mark on metal surfaces
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what is etching?
uses acids to cut the metal plate
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what is aquatint?
tonal areas made by applying powder resin to the plate and then heating it.
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what is lithography?
images are drawn or painted directly in grease on a flat stone or plate
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what is silkscreen?
a stencil is attached to a silk that has been tightly stretched over a wooden frame, then a piece of paper is placed underneath the screen, ink is spread acrossthe screen with a rubber blade or squeegee.
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what is intaglio?
a form of printmaking.
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what is relief sculpting?
something that grows out a 2D background into a 3D space.
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what is freestanding sculpting?
inhabits 3D space in the same way living things do
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what is kinetic sculpting?
non-representational organic metal forms that float in space
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what is performance sculpting?
creates living events that were intended to only last i memory
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what is installation/environment sculpting?
sculpting that takes place in galleries, museums, or public spaces that take up a lot of space and provides a complete and artistic experience.
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what is additive sculpting?
the sculpture is built up of flexible material like clay or plaster
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what is substractive sculpting?
when a sculpture is carved out of hard materials like marble or stone
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what is modeling sculpting?
creating a small thing in which the artist intends to replicate into a larger form
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what is casting sculpting?
when a clay or plaster original is created then a mold of two parts is created. you cut away the wax figure inside then pour molten metal inside of the cast, you take it out of the cast. and tada
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what is constructing sculpting?
when you use things like welding, and random objects to create a work of art
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what is mixed media?
art that combines more than one media
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what is earthworks?
an outgrowth expansion of art that provides an environment but also leaves the gallery and connects with the environment
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who is alexander calder
the guy that came up with kinetic sculpture, or mobiles
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what is camera obscura?
it litterally means dark room. the image is takien in then reflected and projected upside down.
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what is daguerreotype?
the first permanent photographic image
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what are the basic parts of a camera?
box, lens, shutter, aperture/diaphragm, viewfinder
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what is landscape photography?
distant lands captured on film, used to make the distant lands known to the public
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what is documentary photography?
photographs that record authentic, unretouched photographs that record important social conditions and politcal events
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what is fine art photography?
basically it is taking what really occured, and altering it making it appear non realistic
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what is photomontage?
the imaginative combonation of photographic images using scissors and glue
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what is computer generated photography?
photomontage done by a computer using numbers and scanners.
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what is clay?
type of earth that has the property of becoming moldable
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what is kiln?
a heated, closed oven
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what is glaze?
somewhat like a paint but would disintigrate in the hot temperatures of the kiln. it melts and fuzes with the clay
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what is pinching in pottery?
easiest way to make pottery, you simply pinch and shape the clay into the desired shape
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what is flatten/slabs in pottery?
you flatten the clay like cookie dough and cut slabs that can be pressed together to create box like shapes
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what is coiling in pottery?
coiling long ropes of clay and forming them into that desired shape then smoothing the sides with your hand.
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what is throwing (potter's wheel) in pottery?
as the potter's wheel turns, a lump of clay is lifted and shaped by the hand into a vessel
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what is glassblowing?
when glass is heated to a molten state and using other materials to shape it
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what is gothic stained glass?
stained glass that was found in the gothic period of time
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what is graphic design?
several types of design, often known as commercial design, found in magazines newspapers, etc.
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what is industrial design?
making things easy to function, easy to understand, and attractive
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what is interior design?
inegral desing of architecture. not just decorating the inside of a house
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waht is landscape design?
the alteration of the earth for pleasure
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what is urban planning design?
when we plan a city and what it will be like
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what is counter reformation?
the roman catholic church's attempt to combat the protestant reformation. the church supported art that would entertain and rouse the faitful
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what is the council of Trent?
a meeting that pope paul III made to recomend changes in the church
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what is tenebrism?
dark manner
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what is painterly?
an approach to painting
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what is the age of reason?
a smart move that began in england and spread to France and throughout Europe. great scientists and mathematicians stressed rationality over faith
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what is neoclassical?
a reaction to rococo art and visual expression of the ideas of the 18th century. characteristics include line, color, and form in clarity.
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what is romanticism?
the reaction to neoclssicism, by rejecting logic and order and looking for inner truth of intuition and passions
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what is salon des refuses?
an art exhibit that was alternative to the Salon exhibit
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what is realism?
a movement that rejected the historical and mythological subjects of academic neoclasssicism
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what is impresionism?
conveys an immediate impression of a place and time of day
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what is post-impressionism?
seperate expressions of dissatisfaction whit impressionism
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what is pointillism?
type of art where you place small spots of pure color side by side the allows the viewers eye mysteriously mix the two colors
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what is expressionism?
a recreation of feeling
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what is fauves?
wild beasts in france that ignored perspective and used bright colors oa a source of pleasure
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what is cubism?
an alternative to linear perspective
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what is futurism?
a complete rejection of past art
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what is dada?
meaningless term for international an art movement during world war I
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what is surrealism?
art that depicts dreams and visions of teh irrational unconcious
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what is de stijl?
an architectural art created by the dutch
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what is abstract expressionism?
american art in the 50's that combined expressionisms's psychological content and teh gestural application of paint
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what is action painting?
the energetic brushwork of abstract expressionism
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what is pop art?
an american and english art movement of the 60's that celebrated celebreties and comodities of the time
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what is superealism?
art that recreates photographs
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what is earth art?
large scale environmental sculpture outside of a gallery or museum that interacts directly with nature
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