Art Terms...




Oil Paint
Oil Paint
This is a class of paints in which drying oils are used as a medium for binding the pigments to the painting surface.
Palette
Palette
A flat tray/dish on which an artist spreads outs and mixes his colours while painting. This term has also come to be used for describing a particular artist's choice of colours for painting.
Pastel
It comes in a stick form and consists of dry pigment that is bound with gum.

Pencil
Pencil
A drawing or writing instrument, which is a stick of graphite encased in wood or metal.
Plaster of Paris
A kind of plaster that is popularly used for molding and making casts. It is made up of dehydrated gypsum and is mixed with water.

Portrait
Portrait
In terms of format, portrait denotes a size (of a rectangle) in which the height is greater than the width. As a theme for painting, this most commonly means an artistic representation of the upper torso of the human form.

Pottery
Pottery
The art of expressing the creativity through firing of modeled clay. Various articles made by this process are grouped under the category of ceramics. Those modeled on the potters wheel are termed as pottery.
Print
This is a broad term used to denote an images of which many copies can be made. The images may be taken from a silk screen, a woodblock or the negative of a photograph. The category also includes the art of creating prints from treated zinc plates (e.g. in etching), limestone blocks (as in lithographs), steel engravings or even calendar reproductions.

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Profile
 Profile, as a description of posture, means a side-ways appearance of a person's face. It can also represent the outline of a building or an object.
Realism


Art which aims to create an exact replication of the reality, as we see it around us. It also represents a particular phase of art in France in the 19th century. During this phase, the French artists like Courbet chose to draw inspiration from what they saw and experience in their immediate surroundings and expressed them as is without romanticizing their experience.

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