An Art Degree: A Work of Art
Life After....
Now you have art degree what you going to do now? Do you have a plan? There are some things you could do after you graduate.
- Earn an advanced degree. If you want to have a higher paid position, a masters and/or doctoral would open some doors for you.
- Get your portfolio together. And keep it updated with your latest work. This is something you should do before college, during college and after college.
A Masterpiece of Jobs and Careers
Business: Accountant, administrator, agent, appraiser, assistant, curator, director, event planner, freelancer, manager, marketing, owner, president, represntative, salesperson, supervisor
Creative: Architect, animator, cartoonist, ceramicist, comic book artist ,illustrator, interior designer, iewelry maker, layout artist, muralist, painter, photographer, potter, print maker, prop maker, sculptor, silkscreener
Education: choreographer, instructor, lecturer, professor, scholar, specialist, teacher, tutor
Entertainment: Actor, composer, dancer, entertainer, musician, performer, singer
Law: court artist
Media: Arthor, camera operator, cinematographer, critic, director, editor, event planner, filmmaker, logistics, illustrator, multimedia programmer, photojournalist, producer, public relations, writer
Service: counselor, therapist
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Fine Art Terms and Definations
The following terms are used in the art world. You would find some of these terms in not only your art studio classes but in art history courses as well.
- Abstract: artwork that is not representational
- Aesthetic: related to beauty
- Assemblage: 3D artwork made with a variety of materials and objects
- Background: a part of artwork appear far away from a viewer
- Batik: a technique that resists wax
- Brushwork: describe how a painter uses a paintbrush
- Calligraphy: lettering or writing that is decorative
- Canvas: A painting surface that is made out of cloth or cotton.
- Caricature: an exaggterated drawing or rending
- Ceramics: artwork made of clay
- Chine coile: a printmaking technique
- Collage: artwork that is that is made of paper fragments and other materials.
- Color Field Painting: a painting that has color on large areas
- Commission: a request for an artwork
- Complementary Colors: colors mixed with colors that are opposite of the color wheel
- Composition: describes the artwork as a whole
- Conceptual: ideas being emphasized
- Content: an artwork's subject matter
- Contour: an artwork's outline
- Contrast: a photography term is described as light and dark areas
- Cropping: editing edges
- Decorative arts: describes an object's design
- Drawing: an artwork with lines and marks
- Drypoint: a printmaking process
- Earthwork: artwork made up of nature
- Elevation: a scale drawing of different different directions
- Emulsion: two liquids that do not mix
- Enamel: a paint that has a glossy appearance
- Etching: sketching marks
- Exposure: the process of film being exposed to radiation
- Expression: ideas and emotions being communicated
- Facade: the public facing side of a building
- Figurative: a figure or form being represented
- Foreground: a prominent position
- Form: a shape of a person or thing
- Genre: a certain subject matter
- Geometric: geometry related
- Gouache: watercolors made with gum
- Hue: a color's variety
- Iconography: a symbol with more than one meaning
- Monochromatic: A single color
- Motif: a theme or pattern that is often reapeated
- Mural: an artwork that is applied on a ceiling, wall or a large surface.
- Photojournalism: journalism that includes photographs
- Photomontage: several photographs in one artwork
- Pictograph: a pictorial symbol
- Picture Plane: a 2D surface
- Pigment: a finely powered substance that makes paint
- Plan: a scale diagram of an object
- Plane: a level surface
- Primary colors: red, yellow and blue.
- PVC: polyvinyl cholride
- Relic: an important figure's body part or posession
- Rendering: a structure representation
- Replica: a reproduction
- Representation: a presentation of an image
- Satire: a parody of something or someone
- Scale: a measure between size and object
- Scene: a story's setting
- Screen printing: a printing process that includes metal and ink
- Sculptor: an artist who use three-dimensional material
- Sculpture: an artwork that is made out of three-dimensional material
- Secondary colors: orange, green and purple
- Self-Portrait: an artwork of the artist done by the artist
- Setting: a place or surroundings where in event takes place
- Shade: to add black
- Shutter: a device on a camera that opens and closes the lens
- Site-specific: chosen for a specific site
- Sketch: a quick drawing
- Stencil: a thin surface with letters or patterns
- Still Life: artwork that represents every objects
- Street Photography: photography that captures candid moments in public places
- Strobe: fast burst of light
- Style: a distivintive expression
- Subject matter: a focus of an artwork
- Sublime: something that is described as awe-inspiring
- Symbol: a sign that stands for something else
- Tactile: being touched
- Technique: an artist's method
- Tempera: paint made with egg yolk
- Tension: being stretched
- Tint: to add white
- Tone: too add grey
- Translucent: light passing through material
- Triptych: an artwork that has three panels
- Turnpentine burn: removes paint of canvas
- Typeface: how type is designed
- Typography: the art of how certain marks are designed
- Vantage Point: a photographer's position
- Vernacular photography: photography of everyday things and life
- Viewpoint: how something is observed
- Vignette: a brief scene
- Viscosity: a paint or liquid's thickness
- Watercolor: paint that is mixed with water
- Wax-print cotton: fabric that is made out of cotton that is used in wax-resist process
- Wedge: a two-faced object that is used to make angle
- Welding: A process that joining metals together.
- Woodcut: a piece of wood that is used in printmaking techniqques
- Ziggurat: a pyramid-like structure
- MoMA | Glossary of Art Terms
MoMA | Glossary of Art Terms - Academy of Art University | San Francisco Art School | Academy of Art University
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