TERMS TO STUDY FOR THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE

• Crafting Images


  Crafting images includes the production, in various forms and methods, of visuals. representations of images. Any art form such as drawing, sketching, and sculpting can be used to perform this process.
• Crafting Stories


  Crafting Stories investigates the possibilities and potentials of textile crafts in the context of storytelling and interactive books
• Crafting Techniques  in soulmaking 

  are the artist's reflection of his life and experiences in any piece of art
• Crafting Movements


  originating in England in c1860 as a reaction against poor-quality mass-produced goods, that sought to revive earlier standards of workmanship and design, conceiving of decoration and craftsmanship as a single entity to be applied to the handcrafted production of both utilitarian and decorative objects
• Crafting Instruments


  transforming any found or used object into a musical instrument allows one to discover harmony and balance to produce a sound that is entertaining handsome and magical.
• Chiaroscuro


  an Italian term that translates as light-dark, and refers to the balance and pattern of light and shade in a painting or drawing.
• Sfumato


  the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.
• Foreshortening


  portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision.
• Pointillism


  a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
• Cubism


  a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

  
• Dadaism


  was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917.

  
• Baroque


  derived from the Portuguese 'barocco' meaning 'irregular pearl or stone', refers to a cultural and art movement that characterized Europe from the early seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century. Baroque emphasizes dramatic, exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted, detail.

  
• Expressionism


  a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

  
• Fresco


  Lifted from the Italian word 'fresco' ('fresh'), the term refers to wall paintings generally made on wet plaster so that the colored pigment is absorbed into the surface of the wall, resulting in brilliant, vibrant colors.

  
• Mosaic


  a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass, or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world.

  
• Terracotta


  any kind of fired clay but, in general usage, a kind of object made from fairly coarse, porous clay that when fired assumes a color ranging from dull ochre to red and usually is left unglazed.

  
• Chromoluminarism


  also called Divisionism, was the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches that interacted optically.

  
• En plein air


  French for 'outdoors, or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors.
• Trompe-l'œil 


  an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real.

  
• Pop Art 


  an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.

  
• Art Nouveau


  characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration.

  
• Fresco Secco


  a process that dispenses with the complex preparation of the wall with wet plaster.
• Golden Section

  also known as the golden ratio, is a mathematical ratio roughly equal to 1.618 that is considered aesthetically pleasing to the human eye.
• Parthenon


  a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, democracy, and Western civilization.

  
• Saputangan


  a square cloth best known for its intricate and rich design, involving optical illusion to create depth in the patterns.

  
• T'nalak


  a traditional hand-woven cloth indigenous to the T'boli people from the Cotabato region. It is woven in order to celebrate and pay tribute to major life events such as birth, life, marriage, or death within the community.

  
• Pottery


  the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard, durable form.
• Weaving


  method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.
• Sculpture


  an art form that involves creating three-dimensional works of art using a variety of methods and materials.
• Maranao Textiles


  are also famous for their ornate designs and colors. Their textile weaving involves traditional Southeast Asian backstrap loom weaving using native decorative ornamentation. A versatile garb called malong is a hand-woven fabric with beautifully patterned designs.

  
• Hablon


  a handwoven textile from Iloilo traditionally made with a handloom using fibers such as abaca, piña, and cotton.
• Piña


  a traditional Philippine fiber made from the leaves of the pineapple plant.
• Nipa Hut


  an icon of Philippine culture as it represents the Filipino value of bayanihan, which refers to a spirit of communal unity or effort to achieve an objective.
• Okir

  a design or pattern that tells the story of a person; his experiences, beliefs, and values – that composed his being and identity, through the use of authentic symbolisms; which reveals the distinct & original culture and civilization of the Muslim south.
• Ifugao House (Fale)


  It is a one-room structure located harmoniously with surrounding rice terraces. Externally, it appears as a simple pyramid resting on four posts.
• Ivatan House (Rakuh)


  a house made of stone, lime, wood, and thatch roof made of cogon, a structure resembling houses found in European hinterlands.
• Bontoc House (Fayu)


  one of the houses in Cordillerra that is directly constructed on the ground. This traditional type of house in Bontoc, Mountain Province is open and relatively large compare to other houses throughout the village, about 3.5 meters in frontage and 4.5 meters in length.
• Torogan


  a 'resting place' or 'sleeping place', is a traditional ancestral house built by the Maranao people of Lanao, Mindanao, Philippines for the nobility. A torogan was a symbol of high social status. Such a residence was once home to a sultan or datu in the Maranao community.
• Kalinga House (Binayon)


  a structure that was created with the use of very organic and all-natural building materials that are the only things that were available at that time, no use of technology being made and built by the hands of the people before us.
• Ulog


  Ulog-communal masonry and thatch sleeping hut for young girls in a traditional ili-tribal village of the Bontoc people of the Igorots. Mountain province-Cordillera region-Luzon island-Philippines.