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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ART HCC EXAM
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Question 1: environment sculptures
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a sculptural space that is large enough for the viewer to move around in it
Question 2: three main ways to build ceramics
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slab construction coiling throwing
Question 3: zone system
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framework for understanding exposures in photography developed by Ansel Adams, a photographic gray scale
Question 4: encaustic
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painting is made by combining pigment with a binder of hot wax, and it is one of the oldest painting media.
Question 5: period where the view of art changed from a craft lesser than other arts
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Renaissance
Question 6: slab construction
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rolled out like a pie crust and shaped by hand
Question 7: etching
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metal plate is first coated with an acid resistant substance called a ground, then the ground is drawn upon, then the drawn plate is set in acid removing the ground from the drawn areas
Question 8: binders
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dry drawing media consist of color agents which are mixed with this to hold them together
Question 9: Relief
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refers to the process of printmaking where the image to be printed is raised off the background in reverse i.e. rubber stamps
Question 10: registration
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series of different blocks, one for each different color
Question 11: components of painting
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binder pigment ground
Question 12: what was eh earliest printmaking technique used in the West
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woodcut
Question 13: throwing on a potter's wheel
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when a piece of clay (with no air bubbles in it) is placed on a spinning wheel and shaped by hands
Question 14: shell system
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one basic material provides the inside support as well as the outside covering
Question 15: the material most often used for casting is
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bronze
Question 16: glass blowing
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pipe is dipped in molten glass, and the glass blower blows through the pipe to create a bubble inside, the hot glass is then formed and cut to create a hollow shape
Question 17: embroidery
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done with needlework
Question 18: daguerrerotypes
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image can not be reproduced,
Question 19: binder in encaustic painting
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wax
Question 20: round arch
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perfected by the romans, supports itself with the weight of the whole being transferred downwards to the posts
Question 21: truss
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strongest piece of construction, one of the most rigid structural forms in architecture, because of its rigidity can span much wider areas than a single wooden beam Question 22: how does assemblage primarily differ from other sculptural processes
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it utilizes found objects
Question 23: embossing
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hammer metal from the front side, usually done in combination with repousse, create deep and detailed designs
Question 24: notre dame cathedral is an example of what type of architecture
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gothic
Question 25: repousse
Answer:
hammering from the reverse side
Question 26: serigraphy
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the image is transferred to paper by forcing ink through a mesh; areas that are not meant to be printed are blocked out.
Question 27: when did color photography become widely available
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introduced in the 1950's to 60's but not made available until 1970's
Question 28: acrylic paint
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paint uses pigments suspended in water mixed with a plastic resin, which forms a quick-drying, and in-organic paint.