Art Walk 2016 Whittaker Youth Department

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Art Walk: Stop 1 Mary Poppins

Flying Over London

Supercalifragilistic

Art materials

Style Figurative or abstract?

Art Terms Crow’s Quill a narrow flexible artist's pen that produces a very fine line which can be thickened by slight pressure.

Illustration Board high quality paper mounted on a stiff backing.

Lithograph a picture printed using a stone or metal block on which an image has been drawn with a thick substance that attracts ink.

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Caricature a picture of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic effect.

The artist The donor

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Art Walk: Stop 2 Story Time

Art materials

Art Terms

Style

Impressionism the technique in art of conveying experience by capturing fleeting impressions of reality or of mood.

Expressionism an artistic style that departs from the conventions of realism and seeks to convey inner experience by distorting rather than directly representing natural images.

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The artist The donor

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Art Walk: Stop 3 Hobsyllwin

Art materials

Style

Art Terms Magic Realism painting in a meticulously realistic style and including fantastic scenes or images.

Figurative art is clearly derived from real object sources, and is therefore representational.

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The artist

The donor


Art Walk: Stop 4 Reading Together

Art materials Style

Art Terms

Bronze an alloy consisting

Figurative or abstract? ● ● ● ●

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The artist

primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals. Lost Wax Process the artist made a sculpture out of wax, then made a hard mold around the wax. When the wax was melted away, the empty mold was the shape the artist created, with all the details he included. He then made bronze copies of his wax sculpture by filling the mold with heated, liquid metal.Lost wax process

Sculpture a type of artwork that's two- or threedimensional, so you can see it from different sides. You can make sculpture from clay, marble, wood, and even mashed potatoes, though the potato kind might not make it into an art museum.


Art Walk: Stop 5 Compass Rose

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The artist

Art Terms Collage a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing.


Art Walk: Stop 6 Randy

Art materials Style Figurative or abstract?

Art Terms Portrait a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person.

Canvas a specially

Subject â—?

prepared piece of cloth, stretch on a frame that an artist paints on

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The artist

The donor


Art Walk: Stop 7 Five Paintings

Art materials Style

Art Terms Acrylic paints are water-

Realistic representation, impression or abstract?

soluble, but become waterresistant when dry. They are also fast drying compared to oil paint.

Abstract art does not

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The artist

attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.


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