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A. Materials are the physical embodiment of the idea. Nam June Paik’s video
installation refers to:
1. advertising
2. signage
3. televised imagery
B. Damien Hirst - known for shocking or controversial works, for example, For the
Love of God, a platinum cast of an 18th C. human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds
(1,106.18 carats) with original human teeth.
C. Vanitas The impermanence of temporal life.
C. The computer is a very helpful tool for creating images of things that do not yet
exist. Many artists use software that aids in design, animation, or drawing and painting.
D. Artists can choose just about any material as a medium in their artwork.
E. Printmaking - the process of making multiple impressions, using a printing plate,
woodblock, stone or stencil.
1. intaglio
2. relief
3. lithography
4. serigraphy
5. monotype (single impression)
F. Intaglio has: fine lines a high level of detail rich, dark tones.
1. Artists cut into a flat surface to make the image---“intaglio” from the
Italian meaning “to cut into.
2. Processes: drypoint engraving etching aquatint
G. Woodblock prints are examples of relief printmaking.
1. areas not to be printed are cut away
2. areas to be printed are left higher
3. ink is applied to the higher areas
4. the surface is sent through a press
H. Drypoint – scratched on a metal plate with a burin, ink is then rubbed into the
scratches, then the plate and paper are put through the press
I. Engraving - entails cutting or incising lines into a laminated woodblock or a
polished metal plate.
J. Etching - a metal plate is coated with a protective ground, the artist scratches a
design into the ground.
1. The plate is placed in an acid bath, eating away or etching the exposed
metal surface.
2. Etching produces a variety of line qualities, while gray tones are created
using aquatints.
K. Aquatint - process related to etching, a metal plate is covered with acid-resistant
powder resin.
1. The plate is heated, melting the resin, which adheres it to the plate surface.
2. The plate is placed in an acid bath, exposed areas are eaten away.
3. The plate is inked and printed the same way as other intaglio processes.
L. Lithography – an image is drawn with an oily pencil on a limestone slab, a water-
based liquid, is applied, the oily marks resist it.
1. The stone or plate is inked with an oilbased ink, which adheres to the
greasy marks.
2. The plate or stone is then put through the press.
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C. Acrylic paint - pigment ground with a synthetic polymer liquid binder, dries
quickly into a flexible film, can be applied to almost any support.
1. Acrylic paint can produce large areas of flat color, similar to the effect of
latex wall paint.
2. Acrylics are water-soluble, artists can also pour acrylic paint, glaze
acrylics, and draw fine lines with it.
3. Acrylics can be poured, glazed, or painted alla prima. They can be thinned
and applied with a fine brush to produce lines.
D. Sprayed Paint
1. Airbrush - small spray gun the size of a pen. Compressed air is forced
through the airbrush, which atomizes the liquid paint, allowing it to be sprayed.
2. Aerosol cans – compressed air and quick-drying paint often used by
graffiti artists.
E. Fabrics, Needlework, and Weaving
1. Transitions from the 2-d art to 3-d works, covers a range of art objects:
tapestries quilts rugs embroidery other woven objects.
F. Embroidery - involves decorative stitch patterns on fabric.
1. The Summer Robe is decorated with intricate and detailed embroidery.
2. Silk fabric forms the support for the needlework, which contains complex
designs
1. Functional pieces are vessels, platters, cups, pitchers...these can be hand molded or
pinched, made out of coils or slabs of clay or thrown on a wheel
J. Modeled sculpture is cast in bronze or plaster.
1. For large bronze sculptures, artists use the cire perdue process* (lost wax casting
method)
2. This method produces hollow metal sculpture with thin walls.
K. Assembling Assembled works are made of various parts that are then put together.
1. Assemblyin its most fundamental form can be seen in this elaborate neck gear.
2. Assembly is the process used to create many works of art or personal adornment.
3. Assembled works are made of various parts that are put together.
4. Assembled artworks are mixed media - mixing up the methods and media.
5. Assembled artworks are often mixed media, which literally means mixing up the
methods and their various media in a work.
6. Assemblage uses found objects or ready-mades (already existing objects).
L. Fabricated sculpture uses industrial and commercial processes, such as welding or neon
lighting.
M. New Technologies
1. Sculptures can be made from computer-aided design files and then “printed” on 3-d
printers.
N. Installation- mixed-media artworks designed for a specific interior or exterior space.
O. Performance - a live-action event staged as an artwork. The human body is the prime
element in performance art – it is related to installation because it transforms the space..