Art

. Art Glossary

Aperture: A space which light passes through in a photographic instrument.

Camera obscurer: An optical devise that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen.

Contact Print: A photographic print made by placing a negative directly onto sensitized paper, glass or a film illuminating it.

Developer: A chemical agent used for trating photographic film to make a visible film.

Exposure: The action of exposing a photographic film to light or other radiation.

Fixer: A substance used for fixing photographic images.

Photogram: A picture produced with photographic materials such as light sensitive paper, but without a camera

Photosensitive: Having a chemical, electrical, or other response to light.

Pointillism: painting using tiny dots of various pure colours, which become blended in the viewers eye.

Positive: Showing lights, shades or colours to the original.

Shutter: A devise that opens and closes to expose the film in the camera.

Texture: the tactile quality of the surface of a piece of art.

Transparency: An image or positive transparent photograph printed on transparent plastic or glass able to be seen on a projector.

When and who made the first photograph? The first photograph was taken by a man called Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826.

Who made the first photograph negitive? The first negitive was taken by a man called Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 (the same as above)

Colour Quiz:

What are the 3 primary colours? Blue, red, and yellow

What are the 2 chacteristics that are pacific to them?
 * 1) no other colours can be mixed to make them
 * 2) Primarys make all other colour hues.

How do you make secondary colours? P + P = S

Name the secondary colours: Green, orange and violet

How do make a tertiary colours? P + S = T

How many tertiary colours are there? Thousands can be seen by the human eye.

If white is not a colour, what is it? All colours reflected

If black is not a colour, what is it? No colour reflected

What is a hue? A pure colour.

What is saturation? Using black and/or white with a colour.

How do you make a tint? Add white to a colour

How do you make a shade? Add black to a colour

How do you make a tone? Add gray to a colour.

What is colour harmony? Colours that sit beside each other on the colour wheel

What is a complementary colour, what are the pairs? The opposite colour on the wheel and (Yellow and Violet) (Green, red) (Blue, Orange)

What happens if you put 2 complementary colours together? They make each other stand out.

What do you make when you mix complementary colours? Earthy colours.



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