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• - comes from the Latin word _______, which means an artist is communicating with his idea

  MEDIUM
• - are materials used by an artist to express his/her feelings or thoughts

  MEDIUM
• In accordance to MEDIUM, arts are primarily classified as ____________ and ____________

  VISUAL AND AUDITORY
• - are those whose mediums can be seen adn which occupy space

  VISUAL ARTS
• - which include painting, drawing, printmaking and photography

  TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARTS
• - which include sculpture, architecture, landscape, industrial designs and crafts like furniture

  THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARTS
• - are those whose mediums can be heard and which are expressed in time

  AUDITORY ARTS
• - are those whose mediums can be both seen and heard and which exists in both spaace and time


  COMBINED ARTS
• - is the manner in which the artist controls his medium to achieve the desire effect

  TECHNIQUE
• - the ability which he fulfills the technical requirement of his particular work of art


  TECHNIQUE
• - artist belives that his choice can be express the idea he wants to convey

  - selects materials that can be handled with ease

  THE ARTIST AND HIS MEDIUM
• - artists differ from one another in technique even if they use the same medium

  THE ARTIST AND HIS TECHNIQUE
• - is the art of creating meaningful effects on a flat surface by the use of pigments

  PAINTING
• - the materials of the _________ are pigments applied to wet plaster, canvas, wood or paper

  PAINTER
• - the pigments are mixed with water and applied to fine fine white paper

  - colours applied in very thin layers

  WATERCOLOR
• - is an opaque watercolour

  - differes from a dominantly briliant quality of translucent wateroclour painting

  GOUACHE
• - painting method done on a moist plaster surface with colors ground in water or limwater mixture

  FRESCO
• - means "fresh" in Italian

  - the colors are mixed with water and applied to fresh plaster which absorbs the color

  FRESCO
• - is a mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk or egg white and ore

  - one of the favourite medium before oil is adpoted

  TEMPERA
• - Tempera is ususally done onwooden panel made very smooth with plaster called "_________" (chalk and gum)

  GESSO
• - is a stick of dried paste made of pigment ground with chalk and compounded with gum and water

  - very flexible medium

  - the chalk tends to rub off and the picture loses its briliiance

  PASTEL
• - is one of the early mediums used by the egyptian for painting portraits on mummy cases

  - done by applying wax color fixed with heat

  ENCAUSTIC
• - Encaustic is an invention of greek art, its name derives from the greek word meaning "_____________"

  BURNT IN
• - one of the most expensive art activity today because of the prohibitive cost of materials

  - appears glossy and last long

  OIL PAINTING
• - one good quality of oil paint as a medium is its _______________

  FLEXIBILITY
• - the newest medium and one that is used widely by painters today

  - combined transparencya nd quick drying qualities of watercolor and flexible as oil

  ACRYLIC
• - art that a picture or decoration made of small pieces of inlaid colored stones called "tesserae" to create an image

  MOSAIC
• - small pieces of inlaid colored stones called _________

  TESSERAE
• - Mosaic is an important feature of ______________ churhces


  BYZANTINE
• - a prominent religous artwork in Manila done in mosaic found in altar of sta. cruz chruch showing a ___________, symbolizing Christ

  WOUNDED WHITE LAMB
• - as an artwork common in gothic cathedrals and churches

  - small pieces of colored glass together by bands of lead

  - kind of patchwork

  - in the Philippine churches it mostly shows scenes from bible

  STAINED GLASS
• - is a fabric prduced by hand-weaving colored threads upon a wrap

  - woven designs, often pictorials, furniture covering

  - hung on the walls to provide warmth

  TAPESTRY
• - it is the most fundamental of all skills necessary in arts

  - usually done on paper using pencil, pen and ink or charcoal

  DRAWING
• - best know drawing in the world is ______________ an Italian artist

  LEONARDO DA VINCI
• - are graded in different degrees of hardness or softness

  PENCIL LEADS
• comes in liquid form the favourite medium of comic strip illustration and cartoonists

  INDIA INK
• - comes in solid sticks that are dissolved in water before they are used

  CHINESE INK
• - carbonaceous materials obtained by heating wood or other organic in the absence of oxygen

  CHARCOAL
• - a brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood, and often used in pen and wash drawing

  BISTRE
• - pigment that bound by wax and compressed into painted sticks for drawing

  CRAYONS