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Quiz: Metalpoint/silverpoint
Ans: A drawing technique in which the drawing medium is a fine metal wire.
Where the metal employed is silver, the technique is known as
silverpoint.
Quiz: Pastels (chalk & crayon)
Ans: A drawing medium consisting of sticks of color made of powdered
pigment and a relatively weak binder
Quiz: Wash
Ans: Ink or watercolor paint thinned so as to flow freely onto a support
Quiz: Collage
Ans: From the French for "glue," the practice of pasting shapes cut from such
real-world sources as magazines, newspapers, wallpaper, and fabric
onto a surface.
Quiz: Pigment
Ans: A coloring material made from various organic or chemical
substances. When mixed with a binder, it creates a drawing and
painting medium
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, Quiz: Encaustic
Ans: painting medium in which the binder is wax,which is heated to render
the paints fluid
Quiz: Fresco
Ans: A painting medium in which colors are applied to a plaster ground,
ushually a wall or ceiling. In buon fresco, also called true fresco, colors
are applied before the plaster dries and thus bond with the surface. In
fresco secco (dry fresco), colors are applied to dry plaster
Quiz: Cartoon
Ans: A full scale preparatory drawing for a fresco or mural
Quiz: Tempera
Ans: Paint in which the pigment is compounded with pigment to make paint.
Quiz: Gesso
Ans: A brilliant white undercoat made of inert pigment such as chalk or
plaster and used as ground for paint, especially for tempera
Quiz: Glaze
Ans: In oil painting, a thin, translucent layer of color, generally applied over
another color. In ceramics, a liquid that, upon firing, fuses into a
vitreous (glass like) coating, sealing the porous clay surface. Colored
glazes are used to decorate ceramics.
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, Quiz: Impasto
Ans: From the italian for "paste," a thick application of paint.
Quiz: Edition
Ans: In printmaking, the total number of prints made from a given plate or
block. According to contemporary practice, the size of an edition is
written on each print, and the prints are individually numbered within it.
The artist's signature indicates approval of the print and acts as a
guarantee of the edition.
Quiz: Hatching
Ans: A linear technique used to create tonal and shading effects, made by
drawing closely spaced parallel lines
Quiz: Installation
Ans: An art form in which an entire room or similar space is treated as a work
of art to be entered and experienced. Usually in a place for a limited
amount of time
Quiz: Medium
Ans: what a piece of artwork is made of
Quiz: Binder
Ans: A substance in paints that causes particles of pigment to adhere to one
another and to a support.
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