Art Vocab
Terms
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- scumbling
- a broken passage of opaque or translucent color skimmed or dragged across the surface in sucha way that each color is visible.
- sgriffito
- a method of decorating or designing a surface by scratching through a layer of one color to expose a different color underneath
- RGB
- red, green, blue (colors of light)
- photomontage
- a composition mafe by juxtaposing or overlapping many pictures
- CMYK
- cyon, magenta, yellow, black (printer colors)
- pastel
- pigments mixed with gum and water and pressed into a dried stick
- .png
- fireworks file (lossless, compressed file)
- .psd
- photoshop
- resolution
- pixels per inch
- adobe acrobat file
- .gif
- compressed graphic files (simple)
- gouache
- a heavy opaque watecolor paint producing a less wet appearing and more strongly colored picture than ordinary watercolor
- .xcf
- gimp (photos)
- collage
- a picture or design created by adhering flat elements to a (wallpaper, photograohs, etc.) flat surface
- .jpg
- compressed file type (graphic)
- found object
- an object, not originally intended as a work of art, that is obtained by an artist, often without being altered in any way.
- .tif
- uncompressed graphic file
- assemblage
- a three-dimensional composition made of various materials
- frottage
- rubbing a piece of paper on a rough surface to capture the texture