An Art Degree: A Work of Art

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.

1. Earn an advanced degree. If you want to have a higher paid position, a masters and/or doctoral would open some doors for you.
2. 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.

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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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.

1. Abstract: artwork that is not representational
2. Aesthetic: related to beauty
3. Assemblage: 3D artwork made with a variety of materials and objects
4. Background: a part of artwork appear far away from a viewer
5. Batik: a technique that resists wax
6. Brushwork: describe how a painter uses a paintbrush
7. Calligraphy: lettering or writing that is decorative
8. Canvas: A painting surface that is made out of cloth or cotton.
9. Caricature: an exaggterated drawing or rending
10. Ceramics: artwork made of clay
11. Chine coile: a printmaking technique
12. Collage: artwork that is that is made of paper fragments and other materials.
13. Color Field Painting: a painting that has color on large areas
14. Commission: a request for an artwork
15. Complementary Colors: colors mixed with colors that are opposite of the color wheel
16. Composition: describes the artwork as a whole
17. Conceptual: ideas being emphasized
18. Content: an artwork's subject matter
19. Contour: an artwork's outline
20. Contrast: a photography term is described as light and dark areas
21. Cropping: editing edges
22. Decorative arts: describes an object's design
23. Drawing: an artwork with lines and marks
24. Drypoint: a printmaking process
25. Earthwork: artwork made up of nature
26. Elevation: a scale drawing of different different directions
27. Emulsion: two liquids that do not mix
28. Enamel: a paint that has a glossy appearance
29. Etching: sketching marks
30. Exposure: the process of film being exposed to radiation
31. Expression: ideas and emotions being communicated
32. Facade: the public facing side of a building
33. Figurative: a figure or form being represented
34. Foreground: a prominent position
35. Form: a shape of a person or thing
36. Genre: a certain subject matter
37. Geometric: geometry related
38. Gouache: watercolors made with gum
39. Hue: a color's variety
40. Iconography: a symbol with more than one meaning
41. Monochromatic: A single color
42. Motif: a theme or pattern that is often reapeated
43. Mural: an artwork that is applied on a ceiling, wall or a large surface.
44. Photojournalism: journalism that includes photographs
45. Photomontage: several photographs in one artwork
46. Pictograph: a pictorial symbol
47. Picture Plane: a 2D surface
48. Pigment: a finely powered substance that makes paint
49. Plan: a scale diagram of an object
50. Plane: a level surface
51. Primary colors: red, yellow and blue.
52. PVC: polyvinyl cholride
53. Relic: an important figure's body part or posession
54. Rendering: a structure representation
55. Replica: a reproduction
56. Representation: a presentation of an image
57. Satire: a parody of something or someone
58. Scale: a measure between size and object
59. Scene: a story's setting
60. Screen printing: a printing process that includes metal and ink
61. Sculptor: an artist who use three-dimensional material
62. Sculpture: an artwork that is made out of three-dimensional material
63. Secondary colors: orange, green and purple
64. Self-Portrait: an artwork of the artist done by the artist
65. Setting: a place or surroundings where in event takes place
66. Shade: to add black
67. Shutter: a device on a camera that opens and closes the lens
68. Site-specific: chosen for a specific site
69. Sketch: a quick drawing
70. Stencil: a thin surface with letters or patterns
71. Still Life: artwork that represents every objects
72. Street Photography: photography that captures candid moments in public places
73. Strobe: fast burst of light
74. Style: a distivintive expression
75. Subject matter: a focus of an artwork
76. Sublime: something that is described as awe-inspiring
77. Symbol: a sign that stands for something else
78. Tactile: being touched
79. Technique: an artist's method
80. Tempera: paint made with egg yolk
81. Tension: being stretched
82. Tint: to add white
83. Tone: too add grey
84. Translucent: light passing through material
85. Triptych: an artwork that has three panels
86. Turnpentine burn: removes paint of canvas
87. Typeface: how type is designed
88. Typography: the art of how certain marks are designed
89. Vantage Point: a photographer's position
90. Vernacular photography: photography of everyday things and life
91. Viewpoint: how something is observed
92. Vignette: a brief scene
93. Viscosity: a paint or liquid's thickness
94. Watercolor: paint that is mixed with water
95. Wax-print cotton: fabric that is made out of cotton that is used in wax-resist process
96. Wedge: a two-faced object that is used to make angle
97. Welding: A process that joining metals together.
98. Woodcut: a piece of wood that is used in printmaking techniqques
99. Ziggurat: a pyramid-like structure