TExES Art EC-12 Latest Update
Graded A+
Intensity ✔✔degrees of shading between black and white (expressive drawing effect)
Cloisonne ✔✔enameling technique where thin wire partitions (cloisons) are filled with enamel
(art form from ancient Byzantium)
Chiaroscuro ✔✔using light (chiaro) and dark, or shade (use of shading)
Hue ✔✔dimension of color determined by wavelength of light (one of the main properties of
color)
Veduta ✔✔Italian for "view" (landscape painting popular in 18th century Venice)
Volute ✔✔architectural element on an ionic capital (partially unrolled scroll)
Value ✔✔darkness or lightness of a color (amt of light reflected by a hue)
,Tempura ✔✔painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Monet ✔✔French impressionist painter (1840-1926); Impressionism
Cezanne ✔✔French post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism)
by stressing the structural components in nature (said "everything in nature adheres to the cone,
cylinder, and the curve")
Picasso ✔✔prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973); Cubism
Piments ✔✔gives color/texture to paint
Gold Leaf ✔✔paper-thin sheets of hammered gold that are used in gilding (such as Byzantine
icons)
Casein Paints ✔✔Milk based paint (gets rancid); cheap (mostly used in theater)
, Synthetic Resin Paints ✔✔chemically different from resinous compounds secreted by plants;
a"newer" painting medium (liquids harden permanently)
Vegetable Dyes ✔✔colorants derived from plants/fungi
Natural Dyes ✔✔dyes/colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals
Impressionism ✔✔-movement in 19th century French painting, in which artists reacted against
Realism by conveying impressions of subjects in time; sought to capture a momentary feel, or
impression, of the piece they were drawing
Futurism ✔✔-artistic movement in Italy around 1910 tried to express energy and values of
machine age;
-Italian movement begun shortly before and during WWI; depicted dynamic movement and
stressed violence & speed of Machine Age; They advocated revolution and glorified war.(Balla,
Severini, Boccioni)
Graded A+
Intensity ✔✔degrees of shading between black and white (expressive drawing effect)
Cloisonne ✔✔enameling technique where thin wire partitions (cloisons) are filled with enamel
(art form from ancient Byzantium)
Chiaroscuro ✔✔using light (chiaro) and dark, or shade (use of shading)
Hue ✔✔dimension of color determined by wavelength of light (one of the main properties of
color)
Veduta ✔✔Italian for "view" (landscape painting popular in 18th century Venice)
Volute ✔✔architectural element on an ionic capital (partially unrolled scroll)
Value ✔✔darkness or lightness of a color (amt of light reflected by a hue)
,Tempura ✔✔painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Monet ✔✔French impressionist painter (1840-1926); Impressionism
Cezanne ✔✔French post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism)
by stressing the structural components in nature (said "everything in nature adheres to the cone,
cylinder, and the curve")
Picasso ✔✔prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973); Cubism
Piments ✔✔gives color/texture to paint
Gold Leaf ✔✔paper-thin sheets of hammered gold that are used in gilding (such as Byzantine
icons)
Casein Paints ✔✔Milk based paint (gets rancid); cheap (mostly used in theater)
, Synthetic Resin Paints ✔✔chemically different from resinous compounds secreted by plants;
a"newer" painting medium (liquids harden permanently)
Vegetable Dyes ✔✔colorants derived from plants/fungi
Natural Dyes ✔✔dyes/colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals
Impressionism ✔✔-movement in 19th century French painting, in which artists reacted against
Realism by conveying impressions of subjects in time; sought to capture a momentary feel, or
impression, of the piece they were drawing
Futurism ✔✔-artistic movement in Italy around 1910 tried to express energy and values of
machine age;
-Italian movement begun shortly before and during WWI; depicted dynamic movement and
stressed violence & speed of Machine Age; They advocated revolution and glorified war.(Balla,
Severini, Boccioni)
