FTCE ART K-12 EXAM PREP
1.fresco: a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or
wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the pigment to merge
with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting
becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco (Italian: affresco)
is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may
thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting
techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting
in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and
is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting
2.wash: visual arts technique resulting in a semi-transparent layer of
color. A wash of diluted ink or watercolor paint applied in combination
with drawing is called pen and wash, wash drawing, or ink and wash.[4]
Normally only one or two colours of wash are used; if more colours are
used the result is likely to be classified as a full watercolor painting.
3.impasto: a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area
of the surface in very thick layers,[1] usually thick enough that the
brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right
on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears
to be coming out of the canvas.
4.dry brush: a painting technique in which a paint brush that is
relatively dry, but still holds paint, is used. Load is applied to a dry
support such as paper or primed canvas. The resulting brush strokes
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, have a characteristic scratchy look that lacks the smooth appearance
that washes or blended paint commonly have.
5.Lost-wax casting: is the process by which a duplicate metal
sculpture (often silver, gold, brass or bronze) is cast from an original
sculpture.
6.incising: to engrave a design by cutting or scraping into the clay
surface at any stage of drying, from soft to bone dry. With hard bone-
dry clay you will obtain more precise lines, but you have to be very
careful that it does not break.
7.lithography: is a method of printing originally based on the
immiscibility of oil and water.
8.intaglio: a design incised or engraved into a material. the incised area
holds the ink.
9.High Renaissance: The elongated proportions and exaggerated poses
in the late works of Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto and Correggio
prefigure so-called Mannerism, as the style of the later Renaissance is
referred to in art history. Many consider 16th century High Renaissance
art to be largely dominated by three individuals: Michelangelo, Raphael,
and Leonardo da Vinci.High Renaissance art is characterized by
references to classical art and delicate application of developments from
the Early Renaissance (such as on-point perspective). Overall, works
from the High Renaissance display restrained beauty where all of the
parts are subordinate to the cohesive composition of the whole.
10.impressionism: Picking up on the ideas of Gustave Courbet, the
Impressionists aimed to be painters of the real - they aimed to extend
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1.fresco: a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or
wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the pigment to merge
with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting
becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco (Italian: affresco)
is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may
thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting
techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting
in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and
is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting
2.wash: visual arts technique resulting in a semi-transparent layer of
color. A wash of diluted ink or watercolor paint applied in combination
with drawing is called pen and wash, wash drawing, or ink and wash.[4]
Normally only one or two colours of wash are used; if more colours are
used the result is likely to be classified as a full watercolor painting.
3.impasto: a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area
of the surface in very thick layers,[1] usually thick enough that the
brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right
on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears
to be coming out of the canvas.
4.dry brush: a painting technique in which a paint brush that is
relatively dry, but still holds paint, is used. Load is applied to a dry
support such as paper or primed canvas. The resulting brush strokes
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, have a characteristic scratchy look that lacks the smooth appearance
that washes or blended paint commonly have.
5.Lost-wax casting: is the process by which a duplicate metal
sculpture (often silver, gold, brass or bronze) is cast from an original
sculpture.
6.incising: to engrave a design by cutting or scraping into the clay
surface at any stage of drying, from soft to bone dry. With hard bone-
dry clay you will obtain more precise lines, but you have to be very
careful that it does not break.
7.lithography: is a method of printing originally based on the
immiscibility of oil and water.
8.intaglio: a design incised or engraved into a material. the incised area
holds the ink.
9.High Renaissance: The elongated proportions and exaggerated poses
in the late works of Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto and Correggio
prefigure so-called Mannerism, as the style of the later Renaissance is
referred to in art history. Many consider 16th century High Renaissance
art to be largely dominated by three individuals: Michelangelo, Raphael,
and Leonardo da Vinci.High Renaissance art is characterized by
references to classical art and delicate application of developments from
the Early Renaissance (such as on-point perspective). Overall, works
from the High Renaissance display restrained beauty where all of the
parts are subordinate to the cohesive composition of the whole.
10.impressionism: Picking up on the ideas of Gustave Courbet, the
Impressionists aimed to be painters of the real - they aimed to extend
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