ART 100: Art Appreciation
Instructor: Diane Weintraub
By the end of Part II of your Art 100 class you will know these words and their definitions, and use them comfortably when talking about art:
Acrylic paint
Encaustic
Fresco
Ground
Gesso
Size (sealer)
Pigment
Support
Printmaking
Pulling a print
Artist’s proof
Relief print
Intaglio
Lithography
In-the-round, freestanding sculpture
Low-relief, bas-relief sculpture
High-relief sculpture
Additive and subtractive methods
Armature
Casting/substitution or replacement method
Assemblage
Kinetic sculpture
Mixed media
Installation
Site-specific works
Post and beam
Colonnade
Vault
Pendentives
You will be able to list the purposes of drawing.
You will know the wet drawing media.
You will know the dry drawing media.
You will know the difference between hatching and crosshatching in drawing.
You will be able to discuss the composition of paint.
You will be able to list the advantages and disadvantages of the following
painting media: watercolor, oil, egg tempera, and acrylic.
You will be able to discuss how prints are numbered.
You will know the process-oriented difference between descriptions of relief
printing, etching, lithography, and screenprinting.
You will be able to compare and contrast high and low relief sculpture.
You will be able to compare and contrast additive sculpture methods versus
subtractive sculpture methods.
You will be able to describe the three basic steps in casting a sculpture.
You will be able to compare and contrast installation and site-specific art
works.
You will be able to give an example of and draw a simple post and beam
architectural structure.
You will be able to discuss the importance of steel and reinforced concrete to
the development of architecture.