The First Step To An Artist Flashcards

Art is a beautiful combination of ideas and thought put together, on the journey to becoming an artist. Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory, or performing artifacts (artwork). Every artist evolves their thought, through various perspectives in the form of portraits, landscapes, music, or poetry. Right from the beginning, since a child is born, it eventually develops an interest in his/her surroundings. Thus adjusting with the culture and developing their interest in various forms, that enhances his/her thinking abilities and give power to their imagination. Let's take this The First Step To An Artist Flashcards.

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Paint in its most basic form is composed of_________ and a targeted binder.
Pigment
This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
Pigment
The binding agent in encaustic painting is_________.
Beeswax
Encaustic is usually painted on this kind of support:
Wood
The binding agent for tempera paint is________.
Egg
Tempera lends itself to high __________ because it is usually applied with a fine brush in short, thin strokers
Detail
Islamic an renaissance artists oftened used tempera in conjunction with oil and this material, which adds a rich appearance to the work.
Gold leaf
This painting process relies on freshly applied lime platter to hold the pigment in place.
Fresco
The earliest examples of fresco, found at the palace of knossos on the mediterranean island of _______, date to c. 1600-1500bce.
Crete
There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco.
Buba
Diego Rivera's mural for Rockefeller Center in NY was removed because ________.
It included a portrait of Vladimir Lenin,
Taking 4 years to complete, the sistine chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the boon fresco method.
Michelangelo
This Flemish painter was credited during the renaissance with the invention of oil paint.
Jan Van Eyck
The process called glazing in which thin layers of oil paint are applied, appear lit from within, or are said to have a high degree of ________.
Huminosity
Camera Obscures is latin for _______.
Dark Room