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Art Vocabulary and Cultural Techniques

Explore art history vocabulary and techniques like Pointillism, Symbolism, Aboriginal art practices, and plaster and mosaic work. Learn about different artistic expressions and historical contexts.

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Art Vocabulary and Cultural Techniques

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  1. ART 3&4: Unit 1 Art History

  2. Vocab Aboriginal Mask Mosaic 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500

  3. Vocabulary– 100 Points A mixture of water, cement, and gravel used to fill the spaces in between tiles. ANSWER: • Grout

  4. Vocabulary– 200 Points • This is a mark produced onto a surface by pressure, printing, or stamping. • ANSWER: • Impression

  5. Vocabulary– 300 Points • A Neo-Impressionism art technique that started in the 1880’s and uses dots to draw the impression of an image. • ANSWER: • Pointillism

  6. Vocabulary– 400 Points • This involves adding a 3D object during the drying process. • ANSWER: • Inclusion

  7. Vocabulary– 500 Points • ___________ uses symbols to represent ideas, qualities, or things. • ANSWER: • Symbolism

  8. Aboriginal– 100 Points • Refers to anything made by the first indigenous peoples of a region and tells a story. • ANSWER: • Aboriginal

  9. Aboriginal– 200 Points • Aboriginal art use dots to depict animals they want to appear less solid, like in a______________. • ANSWER: • Dream-State

  10. Aboriginal– 300 Points • Aboriginal art started as the depiction of stories, either ________ or __________ ones. • ANSWER: • Real or Imagined

  11. Aboriginal– 400 Points • Aboriginal art is characterized as that art style by its use of __________ to tell a ___________ • ANSWER: • Dots, Story

  12. Aboriginal– 500 Points • Aboriginal art tells a story with symbols instead of words because they started before what? • ANSWER: • The written word/recorded language

  13. Masks– 100 Points • A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water that hardens to a smooth solid. • ANSWER: • Plaster

  14. Masks– 200 Points • Plaster always needs what as it dries? • ANSWER: • Support system

  15. Masks– 300 Points • Plaster can only be mass produced in ________ form, unlike grout, because they are made from different materials. • ANSWER: • Powder

  16. Masks– 400 Points • Who first started to mass produce masks that used symbolism to represent ideas? • ANSWER: • Italians

  17. Masks– 500 Points • Plaster works better for masks than clay because it does not _________as it dries. • ANSWER: • Change shape (shrink)

  18. Mosaic– 100 Points A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile into a surface. ANSWER: • Mosaic

  19. Mosaic– 200 Points • An individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a cube, used in creating a mosaic. • ANSWER: • Tessera

  20. Mosaic– 300 Points • The ________ was only a few millimeters in size so it allowed artists to create mosaics that were as detailed as _________ . • ANSWER: • Tessera, paintings

  21. Mosaic– 400 Points • Which culture was the first to upgrade from writing books to using mosaics as a way to record stories so they would last longer? • ANSWER: • Mesopotamian

  22. Mosaic– 500 Points • Who were the first to start using mosaics as a decorative art style and mass produce them? • ANSWER: • Greeks and Romans

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