Words of Art / Painting
"It is necessary that we should grasp some of the basic and important terms in Art / Painting in order to understand the vastness of the subject and the borders it shares with other art forms. Below are some of the words used in painting."
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Acrylic Paint – is fast-drying paint containing pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted (with water) or modified with acrylic gels, mediums, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor or an oil painting, or have its own unique characteristics not attainable with the other media.
Accuracy – is the degree of closeness of a measured or calculated quantity to its actual (true) value. Accuracy is closely related to precision, also called reproducibility or repeatability, the degree to which further measurements or calculations show the same or similar results.
Advertising – is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Many advertisements are designed to generate increased consumption of those products and services through the creation and reinforcement of "brand image" and "brand loyalty". For these purposes, advertisements sometimes embed their persuasive message with factual information. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages, including television, radio, cinema, magazines, newspapers, video games, the Internet and billboards. Advertising is often placed by an advertising agency on behalf of a company or other organization.
Anatomy – is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy (zootomy) and plant anatomy (phytotomy). In some of its facets anatomy is closely related to embryology, comparative anatomy and comparative embryology, through common roots in evolution.
Brewing – the creation of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by strong wind, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation, such as ice (ice storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, hailstorm, etc
Color – is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra.
Color Sketching – a 2 unit Fine Arts subject that deals with exercises to develop manual dexterity in handling various color media in the representation of three dimensional objects and space medium/media must have to be specified.
Composition – In the visual arts — in particular painting, graphic design, photography and sculpture — composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art. It can also be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art. The term composition means 'putting together,' and can apply to any work of art, from music to writing, that is arranged or put together using conscious thought. In the visual arts, composition is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structure, depending on the context. In graphic design and desktop publishing, composition is commonly referred to as page layout.
Dexterity – can be defined as coordination of small muscle movements which occur e.g., in the fingers, usually in coordination with the eyes. In application to motor skills of hands (and fingers).
Drawing – is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman. A small amount of material is released onto the two dimensional medium which leaves a visible mark—the process is similar to that of painting. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard, or indeed almost anything. The medium has also become popular as a means of public expression via graffiti art, because of the easy availability of permanent markers.
Drawing Fundamentals – a Fine Arts subject that teaches the students to Develop manual dexterity in the use of pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and other media used in freehand drawing of either colored or black and white. Using monochromatic dry media or colored media.
Elements – a fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity. The basic assumptions or principles of a subject.
Excess – is a state of something being present beyond a requisite amount. In certain contexts, it has a more specialized meaning.
Exhibit – An object or set of objects on show in a museum or gallery, typically in a showcase, as part of an exhibition.
Figure – a shape, drawing or representation.
Figure Painting – is a form of the visual arts in which the artist uses a live model as the subject matter of a two-dimensional piece of artwork using paint as the medium. The live model can be either nude or partly or fully clothed and the painting is a representation of the full body of the model. It is analogous in most respects to figure drawing, which is usually done in crayon, ink, pencil, watercolor or mixed media on paper.
Fundamentals – forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure of or relating to the foundation or base
Haste – is the act of hurrying; quickness of motion; rapidity. The act of hurrying carelessly or recklessly haste makes waste necessity for hurrying.
Hone- to train, it is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at technical colleges and polytechnics.
Indolence – is the quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. Indolent – a person Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually
idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.
Life Painting – is a Fine Arts subject that deals with the painting of figures and live models of either nude or clothed with a variety of fabrics that are available. It is focused on training the students to paint in different types of painting media like acrylic, water color and oil paintings.
Medium – any material or technique as used for expression or delineation in art.
Model – is the one that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.
Nude – having no clothing; naked, an unclothed human figure, especially an artistic representation.
Render – to represent in a drawing or painting, especially in perspective.
Relevant – having a bearing on or connection with the matter at hand.
Sketching – a hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.
Solitude – is the quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others.
Oil Painting - is a type of slow-drying paint consisting of small pigment particles suspended in a drying oil. Oil paints have been used in England as early as the 13th century for simple decoration, but were not widely adopted for artistic purposes until the 15th century. The most common modern application of oil paint is domestic, where its hard-wearing properties and luminous colors make it desirable for both interior and exterior use. Its slow-drying properties have recently been used in paint-on-glass animation.
Painting – is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete. Paintings may be decorated with gold leaf, and some modern paintings incorporate other materials including sand, clay, and scraps of paper. Painting is a mode of expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature.
Passionate – is an emotion applied to a very strong feeling about a person. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something. The term is also often applied to a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love.
Pictorial Compositions – an arrangement of parts for forming a unified whole in such order that maximally helps for idea's expression.
Plate – is the term for any painting, drawing or any work done in the major subjects, either activities, major or minor projects in an art university
Prerequisite – something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed. Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
Program – is the process of managing multiple interdependent projects that lead towards an improvement in an organization's performance.
Props – is any object held or used on stage by a model for use in furthering the painting production. Smaller props are referred to as "hand props". Larger props may also be set decoration, such as a chair or table. The difference between a set decoration and a prop is use. If the item is not touched by a model for any reason it is simply a set decoration.
Tone – the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a color.
