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Ackland Art Museum - Sculpture info Category: Arts > Sculpture and other art forms Date & country: 28/02/2011, USA Words: 252

saturation
See intensity.

scale
The size or apparent size of an object seen in relation to other objects, people, or its environment or format. Also used to refer to the quality or monumentality found in some objects regardless of their size. In architectural drawings, the ratio of the measurements in the drawing to the measurements in the building.

school of art
A group of artists whose work demonstrates a common influence or unifying belief. Schools of art are often defined by geographic origin. When the term is applied to a particular artist, it may refer to work done by the artist's pupils or assistants or to work that imitates the artist's style.

screenprinting
(serigraphy) A printmaking technique in which stencils are applied to fabric stretched across a frame. Paint or ink is forced with a squeegee through the unblocked portions of the screen onto paper or other surface beneath.

section
In architecture, a scale drawing of part of a building as seen along an imaginary plane that passes through a building vertically.

serigraphy
See screenprinting.

setback
The legal distance that a building must be from property lines. Early setback requirements often increased with the height of a building, resulting in steplike recessions in the rise of tall buildings.

shade
A hue with black added.

shape
A two-dimensional or implied two-dimensional area defined by line or changes in value and/or color.

shutter
In photography, the part of the camera that controls the length of time the light is allowed to strike the photosensitive film.

silk screen
See screenprinting.

simultaneous contrast
An optical effect caused by the tendency of contrasting forms and colors to emphasize their difference when they are placed together.

site-specific art
Any work made for a certain place, which cannot be separated or exhibited apart from its intended environment.

size
Any of several substances made from glue, wax, or clay, used as a filler for porous material such as paper, canvas or other cloth, or wall surfaces. Used to protect the surface from the deteriorating effects of paint, particularly oil paint.

still life
A painting or other two-dimensional work of art representing inanimate objects such as bottles, fruit, and flowers. Also, the arrangement of these objects from which a drawing, painting, or other work is made.

stupa
The earliest form of Buddhist architecture, probably derived from Indian funeral mounds.

style
A characteristic handling of media and elements of form that gives a work its identity as the product of a particular person, group, art movement, period, or culture.

stylized
Simplified or exaggerated visual form which emphasizes particular or contrived design qualities.

subtractive color mixture
Combining of colored pigments in the form of paints, inks, pastels, and so on. Called subtractive because reflected light is reduced as pigment colors are combined. See additive color mixture.

subtractive sculpture
Sculpture made by removing material from a larger block or form.

support
The physical material that provides the base for and sustains a two-dimensional work of art. Paper is the usual support for drawings and prints; canvas and panels are supports in painting.

symbol
A form or image implying or representing something beyond its obvious and immediate meaning.

symmetry
A design (or composition) with identical or nearly identical form on opposite sides of a dividing line or central axis; formal balance.

Synthetic Cubism
See Cubism.

tempera
A water-based paint that uses egg, egg yolk, glue, or casein as a binder. Many commercially made paints identified as tempera are actually gouache.

tessera
Bit of colored glass, ceramic tile, or stone used in a mosaic.

texture
The tactile quality of a surface or the representation or invention of the appearance of such a surface quality.

three-dimensional
Having height, width, and depth.

throwing
The process of forming clay objects on a potter's wheel.

tint
A hue with white added.

townhouse
One of a row of houses connected by common side walls.

trompe l'oeil
French for "fool the eye." A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (three-dimensional.)

truss
In architecture, a structural framework of wood or metal based on a triangular system, used to span, reinforce, or support walls, ceilings, piers, or beams.

tunnel vault
(barrel vault) See vault.

tusche
In lithography, a waxy liquid used to draw or paint images on a lithographic stone or plate.

two-dimensional
Having the dimensions of height and width only.

typography
The art and technique of composing printed materials from type.

unity
The appearance of similarity, consistency, or oneness. Interrelational factors that cause various elements to appear as part of a single complete form.

value
The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value; black is the darkest. The value halfway between these extremes is called middle gray.

vanishing point
In linear perspective, the point on the horizon line at which lines or edges that are parallel appear to converge.

vantage point
The position from which the viewer looks at an object or visual field; also called observation point or viewpoint.

vault
A masonry roof or ceiling constructed on the principle of the arch. A tunnel or barrel vault is a semicircular arch extended in depth: a continuous series of arches, one behind the other. A groin vault is formed when two barrel vaults intersect. A ribbed vault is a vault reinforced by masonry ribs.

vehicle
Liquid emulsion used as a carrier or spreading agent in paints.

video
Television. "Video" emphasizes the visual rather than the audio aspects of the television medium. The term is also used to distinguish television used as an art medium from general broadcast television.

visualize
To form a mental image or vision; to imagine.

volume
1. Space enclosed or filled by a three-dimensional object or figure. 2. The implied space filled by a painted or drawn object or figure. Synonym: mass.

war
In weaving, the threads that run lengthwise in a fabric, crossed at right angles by the weft. Also, the process of arranging yarn or thread on a loom so as to form a warp.

warm colors
Colors whose relative visual temperature makes them seem warm. Warm colors or hues include red-violet, red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, and yellow. See also cool colors.

wash
A thin, transparent layer of paint or ink.

watercolor
Paint that uses water-soluble gum as the binder and water as the vehicle. Characterized by transparency. Also, the resulting painting.

weft
In weaving, the horizontal threads interlaced through the warp. Also called woof.

woodcut
A type of relief print made from an image that is left raised on a block of wood.