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- Assembling
- Technique of creating a sculpture by grouping or piecing together distinct elements.
- Encaustic
- Painting medium when the binder is wax, which is heated to render the paints fluid
- Impasto
- Thick application of paint.
- Brush and Ink
- Can produce a broad range of effects.
- Gesso
- White undercoating made of inert pigment such as chalk or plaster and used as ground for paint.
- Tempra
- Paint in which the pigment is compounded with an aqueous, emulsified vehicle such as egg yolk.
- Mold
- A casting containing a shaped void in which liquid metal, clay, or other material may be cast.
- Edition
- Total number of prints made from a given plate or block.
- Aperture
- hole in a camera
- Conceptual Art
- Holds the belief that the essence of art resides in a motivating idea, and that any physical realization or recording of this idea is secondary.
- Acrylic
- Synthetic plastic resin used as a binder for artists' paints.
- Screenprinting
- Printmaking method in which the image is transferred to paper by forcing ink through a fine mesh in which the areas not meant to print have been blocked.
- Fresco
- Painting medium in which colors are applied to a plaster ground.
- Etching
- Intaglio printmaking method in which the design is bitten into the printing plate with acid.
- Site-Specific
- Art that was concieved for display in a particular place.
- Registration
- Precise alignment of impressions made by two or more printing blocks or plates on the same sheet of paper.
- Shutter
- shuts on a camera
- Cantilever
- Horizontal structural element supported at one end only, with the other end projecting into space.