2018, Art and Design Pamphlet Senior

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MINISTRY OF GENERAL EDUCATION

KITWE DISTRICT EDUCATION BOARD
ART AND DESIGN SENIOR PAMPHLET
GRADE 10 – 12
Kitwe District Art and Design Senior Pamphlet, 2018

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This piece of work would not have been made possible without the support and initiative of the
Kitwe District Education Board Secretary, Mr. Allan Kaoma who was abundantly helpful and
offered invaluable assistance, support and guidance.
Deepest gratitude are also due to all the Art teachers in Kitwe District that tirelessly got involved
in the assembling of this paper. We therefore, wish to note that without their knowledge, time
and academic assistance, this work would not have been successful.
Many thanks to all those with whom we have had the pleasure to work during the pursuit of this
project whose names are too numerous to mention. Most importantly, we wish to thank our
loving and supportive spouses, children and other family members who provided unending
inspiration. It is our sincere hope that this material will go a long way in enabling our pupils as
well as teachers prepare adequately for their Art and Design exams.
AUTHORS
1. Mundia Nyambe………………….. HOD Expressive Arts, Malela Secondary School
2. Chima Chasoba…………………....A/HOD Expressive Arts, Mukuba Secondary School
3. Mwila Evaristo……………………HOD Expressive Arts, Kamfinsa Secondary School
4. Rhoda Phiri………………………...A/HOD Expressive Arts, Ndeke Secondary School
5. Hope Chinyimba…………………..Art Teacher, Malela Secondary School
6. Nalishebo Mungomba Simusa…….Art Teacher, Hellen Kaunda Secondary School
7. Akashambatwa Mwanambuyu…….Art Teacher, Ndeke Secondary School
8. Kafimba Doreen…………………HOD Expressive Arts, Chimwemwe Secondary

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO ART AND DESIGN..................................................................................8
Design..........................................................................................................................................................8
THE IMPORTANCE OF ART.......................................................................................................8
Self-exploration:..........................................................................................................................................8
Self-expression............................................................................................................................................8
Manipulation...............................................................................................................................................8
Holistic nature.............................................................................................................................................8
Knowledge and skills...................................................................................................................................8
Creativity.....................................................................................................................................................8
THE FUNCTIONS OF ART...........................................................................................................9
Income generating.......................................................................................................................................9
Identification...............................................................................................................................................9
Preservation of culture, traditions and customs:........................................................................................9
Entertainment.............................................................................................................................................9
Decoration...................................................................................................................................................9
CATEGORIES OF ART.................................................................................................................9
Ceramics......................................................................................................................................................9
Sculpture.....................................................................................................................................................9
Pictorial………….............................................................................................................................................9
Printing……………..........................................................................................................................................9
Crafts……….................................................................................................................................................10
ELEMENTS OF ART AND DESIGN.........................................................................................10
Line............................................................................................................................................................10
Characteristics of a line.............................................................................................................................10
Meaning of lines........................................................................................................................................10
Other Types of Lines..................................................................................................................................11
Shape.........................................................................................................................................................11
Space.........................................................................................................................................................11
Tone..........................................................................................................................................................12
Texture......................................................................................................................................................12
Types of texture.........................................................................................................................................12

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Value.........................................................................................................................................................13
Form..........................................................................................................................................................13
SHADING TECHNIQUES...........................................................................................................14
Smudging...................................................................................................................................................14
Hatching....................................................................................................................................................14
Cross-Hatching..........................................................................................................................................14
Doodling....................................................................................................................................................15
Stippling.....................................................................................................................................................15
Linear.........................................................................................................................................................15
PRINCIPLES OF ART..................................................................................................................16
Emphasis...................................................................................................................................................16
Balance......................................................................................................................................................16
Types of Balance........................................................................................................................................16
Contrast.....................................................................................................................................................16
Movement.................................................................................................................................................17
Unity..........................................................................................................................................................17
Rhythm......................................................................................................................................................17
Repetition..................................................................................................................................................18
Variety.......................................................................................................................................................18
HISTORY OF ART.......................................................................................................................19
History of Zambian Art.................................................................................................................19
Art from Independence up to date............................................................................................................20
PROMINENT ZAMBIAN VISUAL ARTISTS...........................................................................22
Other Great Zambian Artists......................................................................................................................23
AFRICAN ART HISTORY..........................................................................................................26
West Africa................................................................................................................................................26
Central Africa.............................................................................................................................................26
East Africa..................................................................................................................................................26
South Africa...............................................................................................................................................26
Functions of African Art.............................................................................................................................27
Collecting Sculptural Materials from the Environment.............................................................................28
Effects of Collecting Sculpture Materials from the Environment...............................................................28
Positive Effects..........................................................................................................................................28

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Negative Effects.........................................................................................................................................28
SCULPTURE................................................................................................................................29
Tools and Materials Used in Sculpture......................................................................................................29
Types of Sculpture.....................................................................................................................................29
Methods and Techniques in Sculpture Making.........................................................................................29
Kinds of Sculptures...................................................................................................................................30
Techniques used for Different Types of Sculptures...................................................................................30
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING.........................................................................................................31
Principle of perspective.............................................................................................................................31
Forms of perspective.................................................................................................................................31
One point perspective...............................................................................................................................31
Two Point Perspective...............................................................................................................................31
How to Draw with Three Point Perspective...............................................................................................34
TIE AND DYE..............................................................................................................................40
Materials used in tie and dye....................................................................................................................40
Methods Used in Tie and Dye....................................................................................................................40
Gathering………………..................................................................................................................................40
Circling…………………….................................................................................................................................40
Crumping…………….....................................................................................................................................40
Pleating…………...........................................................................................................................................40
BATIK...........................................................................................................................................41
Materials...................................................................................................................................................41
Methods of Batik.......................................................................................................................................41
Colour as Pigment.....................................................................................................................................41
DRAWING AND PAINTING......................................................................................................43
Types of Drawing/ Painting........................................................................................................................43
Realistic Drawing.......................................................................................................................................43
Abstract Drawing/Painting........................................................................................................................43
Non- Objective/Painting............................................................................................................................43
Approaches to Drawing.............................................................................................................................43
Materials and Tools in Art.........................................................................................................................44
FIGURE DRAWING.....................................................................................................................46
Parts of a Human Figure............................................................................................................................46

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Stages of Drawing......................................................................................................................................46
COLOUR.......................................................................................................................................47
Categories of Colours................................................................................................................................47
Types of Colours........................................................................................................................................47
DESIGN ON PAPER....................................................................................................................50
Symbols.....................................................................................................................................................50
Logo...........................................................................................................................................................50
Emblem.....................................................................................................................................................50
Cards..........................................................................................................................................................50
Posters.......................................................................................................................................................50
Lettering....................................................................................................................................................51
PRINTING.....................................................................................................................................51
Print making..............................................................................................................................................51
Methods of Printing...................................................................................................................................51
CRAFTS........................................................................................................................................53
Mosaic.......................................................................................................................................................53
A Frieze......................................................................................................................................................53
Papier Mache............................................................................................................................................53
Collage.......................................................................................................................................................53
Montage....................................................................................................................................................53
Weaving.....................................................................................................................................................53
Loom..........................................................................................................................................................53
Tapestry.....................................................................................................................................................53
The Structure of Fabric..............................................................................................................................54
Ornaments.................................................................................................................................................54
Jewelry......................................................................................................................................................55
Beadwork..................................................................................................................................................55
BASKETRY..................................................................................................................................56
Tools..........................................................................................................................................................56
Technique Used in Basketry......................................................................................................................56
MASK MAKING..........................................................................................................................56
Materials for Masks...................................................................................................................................56
POTTERY AND CRAFTS............................................................................................................57

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Pottery.......................................................................................................................................................57
Ceramics....................................................................................................................................................57
Clay............................................................................................................................................................57
Sources of Clay..........................................................................................................................................57
Types of Clay..............................................................................................................................................58
Preparation of Clay....................................................................................................................................58
Methods of Making Clay Articles...............................................................................................................59
How to Decorate Clay Articles...................................................................................................................59
Preservation of Clay...................................................................................................................................60
Clay Terms.................................................................................................................................................60
WORLD ART HISTORY AND MOVEMENTS.........................................................................62
Masters of Gothic Art................................................................................................................................62
Masters of The Renaissance......................................................................................................................63
Characteristics of The Renaissance............................................................................................................65
Masters of Impressionism.........................................................................................................................67
Post-Impressionism...................................................................................................................................68
Masters of Post-Impressionism.................................................................................................................69
Masters of Cubism.....................................................................................................................................70
Other Twentieth-century Art Styles and Artists.........................................................................................71
ART TERMS.................................................................................................................................73
REVISION QUESTIONS.............................................................................................................78
ANSWERS..................................................................................................................................108

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INTRODUCTION TO ART AND DESIGN

Art and Design is a very important subject, whose role in our lives cannot be doubted. We live
by it and are surrounded by it; all structures from a simple chair to a complicated building arise
out of design. It is indispensable.
Art can be thought of as the ability of an individual to express his/her inner feelings for one’s
own personal satisfaction and to some extent even for those around him/her. This task of
discovering and developing ones inner self can be enhanced not only through inspiration of what
we see, feel, hear, touch and taste built also through everyday exercise of our creative nature.
Some inner feelings that an individual can express are part of humanity and are expressed most
profoundly only in the arts. They can be expressed in music, drawing or painting pictures
through symbols, signs, logos, making of ceramics, sculptures or crafts etc.
Design
Design is the art of planning, creating and arranging in an artistic way or manner of some of the
elements of art and Design, for one’s personal satisfaction and for the satisfaction of those
around him.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ART

Some of the reasons are:
Self-exploration: Art helps one to identify one`s strengths and weaknesses in the study area,
as one encounters new challenges in the testing and using of both new and known materials and
tools. For example, using paints, brushes, clay, plasticine, etc.
Self-expression: Self expression is enhanced in the learner through the interest in creativity
that already exists, has been acquired, is developing and is being further promoted with the sole
aim of creating a new artistic item. For example, children use their power of creativity,
inquisitiveness and manipulation to come up with new ideas or products that are different from
the original. The uniqueness of the creation is an expression of that of its creator.
Manipulation: One`s psychomotor skills develop further in the realization of one`s thoughts
or ideas of the preparation of an art item, thus improving coordination.
Holistic nature: Art brings out or manifests in a learner knowledge and skills both
consciously and unconsciously, resulting in the development of the whole being.
Knowledge and skills: Through Art the learner acquires knowledge and skills which are
both cardinal ingredients for all round human development.
Creativity: Last but not least, Art develops in one the ability to create new things and come up
with totally new ideas in one`s daily life.
THE FUNCTIONS OF ART

Art plays very important roles in our societies.

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1) Income generating: In some communities, art is used as a source of income. Men

and women make many different items of art which they later sale to earn money. These
can be mats, stools, baskets, chairs, pictures etc. It is a very important life-skill in our
communities.
2) Identification: Art identifies a person, a people, clan, or tribe, etc, distinguishing them
from the rest. This is made possible through the costumes or attire, body-markings e.g.
tattoos bangles, dress, and rings and so on, that an individual or group of people are
wearing. An example would be the Likishi or Nyau masks.
3) Preservation of culture, traditions and customs: Culture, traditions and
customs can be preserved through love, care, repair and proper storage of art works
which are of historical value to the community. These can be masks, stools, so on and so
forth. These artifacts are part of what serves to distinguish one`s culture from that of
neighbouring people`s
4) Entertainment: This may entail visiting museums, exhibition and displays and
various places of historical value for entertainment and acquisition of knowledge.
5) Decoration: Mankind decorates or beautifies his/her body, home and the environment
or surrounding in general personal satisfaction. These decorations can be pictures,
flowers, body markings, etc.
6) Art is used a lot today in advertising on radio, television, newspapers, journals etc in the
form of posters, logos, cartoons, pictures, packaging or branding, rtc.
7) This also serves as a means of communication. Through advertising different messages
are communicated and passed over to people.
8) Art assists in refreshing both the mind and the body of an individual through planned and
unplanned activities in situations of recreation or pastime
CATEGORIES OF ART
i. Ceramics is the art of using clay to make useable or decorative are items for the home
or office. These clay pieces can be in the form of pots, plates, cups, mugs, tiles, etc.
ii. Sculpture is the art of making non-useable, but decorative or symbolic items of
historical value from either clay, marble, cement, wood, stone, Plaster of Paris (POP),
scrap metal etc. These can be large or smaller than life size. The large ones are usually
erected outside in the open. A person who makes sculptures is known as a sculptor.
iii. Pictorial is the art of drawing or painting pictures on a flat surface- like paper, cloth,
wall, etc. – using paint, inks, pencils, pens, crayons, charcoal, etc.
The pictures that are drawn or painted in our books all fall under Pictorial art.
iv. Printing on the hand, is the art of producing and transferring a design commonly
known as a motif onto a surface like cloth, paper, wall, etc. using paints, ink, dyes and so
on. All the clothes that we wear are printed in different, Often beautiful colours and
patterns.

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v. Crafts Last but least we have Craft. Crafts is the Art of making usable or non-usable,
decorative and symbolic art items from natural or artificial materials using simple hand
tools, etc.
The items made can be mats, baskets, stools, pictures from cut-out papers that are stuck
using glue or folded and so on.
ELEMENTS OF ART AND DESIGN

The elements of art are the "building blocks" of art. This is the vocabulary we use to describe
works of art. These elements of art are like the pieces are put together that the puzzle. One piece
means nothing when it is this harmonious application of these elements that can positively bring
out a work of Art.
The Elements of Art and Design are: Line, Shape, Texture, Value, Colour, Form, Tone and
Space.
Line
A line is one important Element of Art and Design. You may ask, but what is a Line? We can say
a line is a continuation of dots that are very close to each other. In other words, it is a path that a
point has followed.
Characteristics of a line
Like everything that exists, Lines have certain characteristics. Lines can take on many forms.
Some of them can be:
Short, Long, Vertical, Diagonal, Zig-Zag, Criss-Cross, Curved, Coiled, Wavy, Thin, Thick,
Straight, Irregular, Parallel, Horizontal, Spiral
etc, as shown below.

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Meaning of lines
Any symbolic presentation in Art Design has a meaning of some kind.
a. Irregular lines represent a feeling of confusion, disturbance, or unplanned activities.
b. Zigzag lines represent a double change of direction in an upward and downward
movement or dodging.
c. Straight line show steady movements in the one direction or its opposite (left and right,
up and down).
d. Parallel lines are an indication of unity or togetherness in constant motion
e. Coiled lines represent a movement of rotation or spinning in a clockwise or counter
clockwise direction.
f. Spiral lines show a feeling of rotation, spinning or movement in an up or down
movement.
g. Wavy lines represent water waves or constant up and down movement.
h. Vertical lines show strength or support of some kind.
i. Horizontal lines suggest rest, calmness or stillness
j. Criss-cross lines give a feeling cancellation, convergence, meeting or having different
ideas.
Other Types of Lines

Did you know that there are other lines that exit beyond those mentioned above? Some of these
are:
i. An outline: An outline shows the edge of an object
ii. An actual line: is on that you can actually see it exists
iii. An implied-line: As the word implied suggests, is a hidden line that you cannot see, even
though it actually exists.
Shape
A two-dimensional area defined by anoutline or change in color. Examplesof types
of geometric shapes includecircle, square, rectangle, triangle, oroval. Other shapes
may be freeformsuch as natural objects (i.e., leaves,flowers, clouds) or invented
freeform shapes that might be created by doodling.

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Space
Space is an area within, around, between, above or below objects and shapes. Space or
distance may be suggested in visual art by using perspective or other strategies such as
placement of objects on the picture plane, overlapping of shapes, or objects closer to the
viewer are made to appear to have more vibrant color and detail than objects further
away. Variation of size or value and the use of converging lines are also used to suggest
space. Negative space is the space surrounding the object or structure.
Tone
If you look around, you will see that some objects change from being very bright to being very
dark. This is mostly determined by the shape of the objects.
Texture
How something feels or looks like it would feel if you could touch it. There are two kinds of
texture: Real (how something actually feels, such as a sculpture) and Implied (when an artist
paints or draws a texture but it is artificial).
Types of texture
 Tactile texture is the actual three-dimension feel of a surface that can be touched.
Painter can use impasto to build peaks and create texture.
 Visual texture is the illusion of the surfaces peaks and valleys, like the tree pictured.
Any texture shown in a photo is a visual texture, meaning the paper is smooth no matter
how rough the image perceives it to be.

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Value
The lightness or darkness of an object. The degree of lightness or darkness. The effect of
light and shade in a picture. Value vocabulary includes tint (adding white to make
something lighter), shade (adding black to make something darker) and hue (the true
colour). Shadow, highlight, and light source are also some vocabulary words to consider
with this element of art.
Note the texture of the some of the objects you may come across in your daily life.Some of these
can be wood, grass, stone, leaves, bottles, fruits, bark of trees, etc. Now try to look at them using
your eyes critically, and feel them using your hands or fingers.
You will realize that some may feel:
 Rough
 Smooth
 Wooly
 Puffy
 Silky, etc.

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Form
This is a three-dimensional object with the qualities of length, width and depth.
Examples of geometric forms include a cone, pyramid, cube, sphere, or cylinder
SHADING TECHNIQUES
There are many shading techniques in which you can show the Tone of an object. Some of them
are:
Smudging
It is a technique in which a finger or tissue is rubbed over the drawing to create tones of
different value. Its effect is similar to that of blending.
Hatching
It is a technique of shading in which a series of fine parallel lines are drawn at about 45
degrees to the outline in order to fill an area or emphasise a surface. Artists use different
spacing and strength of line to create various effects.

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Cross-Hatching
It is shading technique in which two or more intersecting sets of parallel lines are drawn.
Parallel lines drawn close together and crossed at an angle with other parallel lines to
create shading effects on drawing or points.
Note: The closer or nearer the lines are to each other, the darker the tone. And the distance the
lines are from each other the lighter the tones become.
Doodling is also one of the shading techniques. Doodling allows the artist to use a mass of
uncontrolled or irregular lines to show the tone. The closer the Doodles are, the darker the Tones
become. And the more distance the Doodles are the lighter the Tone becomes.
Stippling is another technique that refers to shading that is carried out with dots. Stippling in
sometimes known as pointism. Inpointism the artist uses dots or points to show tone. The closer
the dots or points are, the darker the tone is. And distant points or dots are from each other the
lighter the tones become.
Linear is a shading technique in which a series of fine parallel lines is applied. The lines are
drawn with more precision than in hatching.

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Note: Shadow means the shading in a drawing or painting that indicates the areas receiving and
reflecting the least light. It can also mean the darker area where an object blocks the incoming
light.
Highlights are the lightest parts in a drawing or painting in a drawing or painting or areas of
brighter colour in a painting or drawing. Highlights give an illusion of three-dimensionality and
they also give particular emphasis to an area of the work.
PRINCIPLES OF ART
Are the plans or arrangements that make the elements of Art come together in harmony. The
Principles make order, and organize a work of Art.
These Principles of Art are: Balance, Unity, Emphasis and Rhythm. Let`s look at these
Principles in detail:
Emphasis
Emphasisis when an artist makes one part of a picture more important than the rest. Emphasis
gets you to focus and pay more attention to that particular part of the picture. Can you think
of an example of a picture where you can easily identify the emphasis?
Balance
Balance refers to an arrangement of parts or the Elements of Art and Design so that they have
equal force in the picture or piece of Art.
Types of Balance
Can you think of a natural or man-made object that has Asymmetrical Balance? Which do
you feel is more beautiful, an object with Symmetrical Balance or one with Asymmetrical
Balance?
i. Radial Balance is kind of balance in which the design has a round centre with parts
that move away from
ii. Symmetrical Balance is found when both sides of a design are exactly alike in shape
iii. Asymmetrical Balance is found when the two sides of design are very different, but
still visually balanced.

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Symmetrical Radial Asymmetrical
Contrast
Contrast is the significant degrees of differencebetween lines, colors,
shapes, values ortextures. Pale yellow against charcoalblack has a greater
degree of contrastthan yellow against white, for example.
Movement
Use of lines, shapes or colours to leadthe eye of the viewer from
onedirection to another.
Unity
Unity in Art and Design is when the different parts of a picture come together in harmony. Each
part of the picture fits nicely with the others, thus forming a unity. It is a sense of oneness,
of things belongingtogether and making up a coherentwhole.

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Rhythm
Rhythm is the repeated use of similar elements such as color, line, or shape-the
smooth transition from one part to another.
Repetition
This is the repeated use of an element such as colour, shape or line within a work
of art. Repetition creates pattern, which may be found in manufactured or natural
objects
Variety
Variety consists of differences in scale, surface, line, value and shape that give
interest to a composition.

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HISTORY OF ART
Art has been with mankind since time immemorial. The two cannot be entirely separated because
art is a human activity. Whatever man does, involves one form of art or another.
In Africa, the Bushmen, Pygmies, and Hottentots are famous because of their rock-paintings.
The Egyptians are renowned for their type of writing and marvelous structures such as the
Pyramids and Sphinxes.
Some of the different ways in which Art has been preserved to the present time are through;
songs, dances, costumes/attire and culture.
Art greatly assists in exposing and expressing one’s inner self, and for the most part this self-
expression is goal oriented. This can in the form of drawing pictures or doing crafts. For
example, children are very good at self-expression when it comes to playing with wires and clay.
Art can also have a medicinal value, as a therapy in people who have physical or emotional
problems. For example, arthritis patients are encouraged to mould items out of clay so as to
exercise the affected body parts. Similarly, victims of abuse can find it helpful to explore their
trauma and recovery through art.
HISTORY OF ZAMBIAN ART

Early stages of human development in Zambia are well documented, and some of the artifacts
have been preserved. The earliest forms of man-made articles were stone tools. These included
hand axes and cleavers, and later, wooden tools like digging sticks and clubs. By the late Stone
Age decorative art forms had developed – bone tools, bow and shell ornaments, as well as rock

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paintings using natural colors such as ochre. Nicholas Katenekwa, director of national heritage
conservation commission and archeologist, researched rock paintings and engravings. He
suggests that the naturalistic paintings of game and hunting are concerned with a form of magic
which would give the hunter power over animals, and which would increase the fecundity of the
game. He further suggest that the schematic markings made by later iron age peoples could have
been associated with the weather, or an early form of counting system.
The earliest rock art dates from 10,000 BC and is ascribed to the Twa people. In the Eastern
province some caves with the cinamwali pictographs are still used for ceremonial purposes. Rock
paintings in the Thandwe Rock shelter in Eastern province date from late Iron Age 500 years
ago, and have been added to at different times.
During the Early Iron Age, pole and mud houses appeared, as well as pottery for cooking and
storage. Migrations to Zambia during the third century BC brought skills of smelting, cultivating
and herding. During the eleventh century migrants carried with them other styles of pottery and
more intensive cultivation and developed smelting skills reflected in their copper and gold
jewellery. Findings of cotton cloth, beads, copper crosses, gold bracelets and leather amulets,
during fourteenth century suggest evidence of trade in the region.
In the 17th century migrants established the Lozi kingdom in the north, and during the 18th
century the Bemba and Lunda chieftaincies. Chieftaincies involved complicated rituals and
intricate ceremonial artifacts. In the 19th century the Ngoni and Kololo invaded the east and west
from the south, and Arab, Portuguese and European settlers brought more changes to Zambia.
Art from Independence up to date

Pure art forms continued to be created for ceremonial purposes in the villages, rather than for the
commercial market. There were virtually no painters in western tradition, as artist lacked paints
and the tools necessary for production of conventional pictures. Art in the European sense was
not taught, and the artists of this region used earth colours and natural dyes as done for centuries.
The arrival of European settlers brought influences from western painting traditions and growing
access to materials from that region. During the 1940’s and 1950’s outside influences made their
mark on the local art scene. In Southern Rhodesia, the Cyrene school of painting was developed,
in the 1940’s the Mission art school was founded by Canon ved Patterson, as well as a school

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for sculptors in Salisbury which came to influence Zambian sculptors such as Tubayi Dube and
his students. Congolese Katanga painters were influential during independence, their
characteristic use of palette knife, romantically stylized trees and flat color was emulated by
artists in Zambia.
Tavern art- murals painted on walls of taverns and eating-houses patronized by local people –
depicted tavern scenes and folklore stories. The most common subjects of these paintings were
the mermaid, soccer matches, chess, and satirical scenes. The image of the mermaid came with
the Portuguese via Congo, and the depictions of rats and monkeys represented people of different
origins. Old tavern art influences can be seen in today’s modern day barber and hair salon sings,
as well as in the works of more established artists such as Stephen Kapata.
In 1957 Rhodes national Gallery opened in Salisbury under curator frank McEwen; this gallery
became the shop window for art from Central Africa to the rest of the world. McEwen
encouraged experimental paintings in vivid colors, bringing Zambian artist Yoltam Likito, Henry
Tayali, Richard Gregory, Bernice Schwartz, Bente Lorenz and Tubyai dube to the notice of
overseas collectors.
In 1969 The Art Center Foundation was established, financed from a government grant. It was a
philanthropic society, making no profits, dedicated to promotion of all plastic and graphic
activity in Zambia. During the 1970’s the art scene was growing and expanding in Zambia.

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PROMINENT ZAMBIAN VISUAL ARTISTS

Societies are recognized through their works and these are promoted by outstanding individuals
in the creative perspective. Great artists have emerged over the years who have promoted the
field, practice and passion of art and design in Zambia. Notable among the great artists are;
1. Henry Tayali
Henry Tayali was born in 1943. He was a fine artist and sculptor. He started painting as a school
pupil and held his first exhibition when he was just 15. Even though he was primarily a painter;
he was also a skilled sculpture. Furthermore, he developed a strong social, political conscience as
a teenager and matured into a well –read hard working and talented young man.
Tayali was one of the foremost artists from Zambia to have achieved major recognition in the
international art scene. After completing his education he held exhibition all over Zambia and in
other parts of the world. He was a brilliant artist and also a keen photographer and lecturer.
Nevertheless, Henry Tayali’s influence on the development of art and culture in 20 th Century in
Zambia has been immense. He also served as the president of the International Association of
Artist in Zambia (which fell under UNESCO) and headed the Art Centre Foundation, the
National Craft Council of Zambia and the National Museums Board.
Tayali was also a skilled photographer as he had studied the art of Photography in college.
Always equipped with a Leica SLR camera, he loved to click creative photographs were people
and artifacts. His paintings involved from the fine art style to semi-abstract, through to abstract
and edging to minimalism at the time of his death.
Tayali’s paintings ranged in size from small scale to large murals and very large canvas of more
than two meters in length by at least a metre and a half .Tayali’s works were concerned with the
suffering .His painting “Destiny” has been described as an attempt to express young man ,about
the struggles of mankind now and in the future.

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Technique Art Styles Used by Henry Tayali

Most of his works were done in the typical Tayali style of “free” figurative imagery. In some of
his works Henry transposed his abstract way of painting to the Painting table.
2. Godfrey Setti
Godfrey Setti (1958-2002) was a Zambian artist, printmaker, and writer. Setti received a degree
in BA Fine Art with Honours, from Reading University, England, in 1991. He received his
master's degree as well and was studying towards a Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Rhodes University in
Grahams town, South Africa.
He exhibited his works widely in Africa and internationally and is represented in several public
and private art collections. His work was included in the 1990 group show 'Art from the
Frontline', which toured the UK and Ireland.
He showed at the Grahams town Festival in 2000 and held a solo show the previous year at the
Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre. Setti has also authored a book on Zambian art. Sue, a prominent
South African artist, said in May 2000 of Setti's oil paintings: The palette Setti uses seems almost
northern - there is a soft creaminess to his colours - but the terrain mapped out is familiar: the
hustle and bustle of township life as it eddies to and fro from the bus stop to market to taxi rank.
With the exception of a painting of two cycle riders on a country road (and even here a bus is
appearing around a distant corner), Setti's paintings are thronged with people busy about their
daily life. Setti died on March 23, 2002, leaving behind seven children. His wife had died in
2000.
3. Akwila Simpasa
He was born in 1945 on the Copperbelt, Zambia. As a young man, he showed great talent. In
1965 he held first sole exhibition at the Red Cross head quarters in Lusaka. As a gifted visual
artist, he started drawing at an early age, creating a charcoal drawing on walls at primary school.
He also won art competitions at school.
He later studied art at Mindolo Ecumenical Center in Kitwe. He then worked at local newspaper
publisher as a graphic designer, before going to Europe for further art education. Akwila did
painting, drawings and sculpture. He was a renowned artist and musician who drew and painted
the Zambian Freedom Statue (mother & child).
Other Great Zambian Artists

1. Gabriel Ellison
Gabriel Ellison is a Zambian female artist best known for assisting in designing the flag of
Zambia and many of that countries stamps from the 1960s to 1980s when she was head of
graphic arts sectors at the ministry of information’s. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia (formally
northern Rhodesia) and works mainly with oils, acrylics water colors, tempera and in three

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dimensions form. When doing sculpture she uses resin bronze and terracotta. Ellison is a fellow
member of the royal society of arts, British display society and the chartered society of
designers, she has been honored by the British and Zambian government in the arts. The British
government with the MBE and the Zambian government awarded her the Grand officer of
distinguished service.
2. Chansa Chishimba
Chansa Chishimba was born in 1956. He was trained at Nkwame Nkhruma teachers College in
Kabwe, Evelyn Hone College of applied of arts and commerce in Lusaka. Zambia and Baltic
school of arts and design in Skone Sweden, he works as a sculptor, textile, designer and painter.
He initially worked on paper, canvas and jute. In September 1982 he started research in different
types of trees and techniques of processing Zambian traditional bark fiber cloth. In 2004 he first
experimented much papaya tree bark fiber and prides himself in been the first Zambian visual
artist to paint on it. He has since adopted is new discovery as a painting ground for all his recent
art works, which have become very popular on the art market.
3. Poto Kabwe
He was born in 1959 and completed his form five at Kantanshi secondary school in 1978 in
Mufulira on the Copperbelt province of Zambia. He joined Kafue textiles of Zambia as a
designer and worked until 2005. Since then Poto has been a free-lance practicing artist. Poto tells
a realistic story depicting Zambian life in high density areas. In his work he brings all players of
the society into focus, he gives flesh color. Poto captures all aspect of life from street vendors to
crowded bars in his marathon compositions. He works in both acrylic and oil. Poto Kabwe
featured in Oprah Winfrey’s private collection.
4. Kunda Style
He was born in Luanshya district, Zambia in 1953, Style kunda is a self-taught painter who went
to school in Mpatamato and Luanshya correspondence. He started sign writing in 1969 and
moved on to painting on canvas in 1977. Style worked has a gallery attended at Mpapa gallery in
1992, during this time he received an artist’s working grant sponsored by Norad. Kunda served
on the Mbile international workshop committee as treasurer and secretary until 1995. His work
focuses on social commentary and related aspects of life in Zambia. He has exhibited at home
and abroad and has widely participated in workshops in the southern African region.
5. Victor Makashi
He was born in Kasama, Zambia in 1956, victor obtained teachers diploma from the Evelyn hone
college, Lusaka in 1986. He has another diploma in teaching from the Mufulira teachers college,
obtained in 1981. Victor taught art Kabulonga Girls secondary school in 1982 before he joined
the Copperbelt museum as senior technical officer, and was Copperbelt province chairperson
VAC. Makashi was later elected VAC has national chairperson until he was employed as deputy
director of the National arts council of Zambia victor has won several awards and has exhibited
and participated in many local exhibitions and international workshops at home and abroad. His
work is also found in the Chamunuka art collection. Currently Makashi is the director of national
arts council of Zambia and also served on the national constitutional review commission has a
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6. Mwamba Lutanda
He was born in Kasama, Zambia 1966, Lutanda Mwamba was a versatile, multi-disciplinary
artist, popularly known for his prints. He obtained a diploma at Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka
in 1986. In 1990 studied at reading university, UK through a common wealth foundation
fellowship and lecture trust sponsorship. He also took up an art residency in Jamaica. Mwamba
received two national Ngoma awards, one in 1996 and one in 1997. He also exhibited corporate
commissions at bank of Zambia in 2000 and Namwandwe gallery in 1995. He lived and worked
in Lusaka were he continued to inspire most artists in various art forms. He also shared computer
skills. He died in 2012.
7. Mwansa Adam
He was born in Nchelenge district, Zambia in 1960 Adam Mwansa is a painter who also enjoys
drawing in pen and ink. He received diploma in art from Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka 1986.
He took up a studio residency at Wimbledon school of art, London in 1993. Mwansa then studied
graphics Hague, Netherlands where he obtained a graphic design certificate 1994. Mwansa has
participated in regional workshops and exhibitions in Africa and in Europe. Mwansa taught art in
Botswana but has since come back to Zambia and currently practices art on full time bases, has
well as writing a book on drawing tips.
8. Simukanga Shadreck
He was born in Ndola, Zambia in 1955, Shadreck Simukanga was a painter and a teacher of art
at Munali secondary school. In 1979 he obtained diploma in art teaching from Evelyn hone
college, Lusaka where he majored in ceramics. In 1992, he took up a studio residency at the
prestigious Delfina studio in London. Shadreck participated in many workshops and exhibitions
at home and abroad. He also served as Zambia national visual arts council vice chairman and
Mbile international artist’s committee member in 1995. Shadreck was a selfless and kind artist
who shared his knowledge and skills with everyone. Simukanga drew portraits of artist’s
facilitators in an international women’s day workshop sponsored by the united country team,
supervised by UNFPA in Lusaka. In 2004 and at the time of his death, in 2004 was a curriculum
specialist at curriculum development center in the ministry of education. Simukanga inspired
many artists and his work was highly figurative and his abstracts were very successful was of art.
Activity
1. State the techniques of art styles of prominent Zambian visual artists.
2. Describe the works of prominent Zambian visual artists.
3. Compare and contrast works of Zambian visual artists.
4. List the artists who use similar styles or techniques.
5. Mention one of the Zambian artists and describe his or her works.

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AFRICAN ART HISTORY

Africa is the second largest continent and has more than 50 independent countries and thousands
of ethnic groups that have many differences. Their differences are seen in religion, economics,
geography of area and politics; and these had and have a great impact on their artistic traditions.
West Africa
West Africa is the home of many sculptural traditions and is known for bronze casting, jewellery
and weaving. Many groups had and are still having a tradition of carving masks and other objects
for use in rituals related to agriculture e.g. Senufo people of Cote d voire . They had sculptures of
female seated sculptures symbolising power of human fertility of sowing. The Akan of Ghana
and the neighbours made wooden stool, gold jewellery and gold plated wood carvings.
Central Africa
A number of ethnic groups have made notable contributions to artistic traditions in this region:
they include Fang, Kofa, Kuba, Luba and Chokwe. Much of the Central African art was designed
to reinforce the authority or to fulfil roles in rituals or religion. The Fang and the Kofa people
used to make cylindrical bark boxes which traditionally held skulls and other relic of ancestors.
The Kuba in the DRC used to make seated wooden figures to represent Kuba Kings, they also
used to make geometric patterns and embroidered clothing, they carved on wooden cups and
made mats for the walls and homes and houses of palaces.
The Chokwe, Luvale and Lunda people of North Western Province Zambia created a series of
masks for use during initiation ceremonies like welcoming of boys into manhood. These were
made out of barks, sticks and wood.
East Africa
Much of art and architecture if East Africa is religious in nature; Islam dominated the North part
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Christianity, churches were carved out of solid rock and were decorative by wall paintings. The
Mifikanda of Kenya wooden posts called Vigang in owner of the dead. The Somali of Somalia
were known for poetry and visual arts like fine wood carvings wooden headdresses and
decorated wooden vessels.
South Africa
This region is a home of some of the oldest art in Africa although it largely lacks the strong
artistic traditions found elsewhere in Africa. The Shona, Zulu the Xhosa and the Ndebele women
created bead works that rank as the strangest in South Africa. The beads are used to make
necklaces, head bands, bracelets and leg ornaments. Beads were made from clay, shells of ostrich
eggs and other materials wood carvings headrests; figurine, pipes, doors and ceremonial vessels,
decorative pots for storing beer were made among the Zulu, Shona, Sotho and many others.
Mural paintings in Botswana and South Africa mainly the Ndebele was done about domestic
space control.
Functions of African Art

1. Utilitarian Purpose
African arts have many utilitarian objects such as furniture, dishes and utensils with decorative
schemes. Thus some of these objects serve for both utilitarian and decorative purposes.
ii). Decorative motive
Among the most decorative objects made for everyday use in Africa are baskets, handmade
pottery, carved wood vessels, eating utensils, stools and headrests.
iii). Utilitarian motive
 Baskets are used as containers

 Pottery is used for storing and serving fluids and other foods.
 Wooden carvings like spoons and other eating utensils like bowels are used.
 Stools and headrests are traditions forms of furniture
2. Ritual Function
The performance of rituals calls for special objects. These vary from one society to the other. So
these may include: masks, headdress, statues and other objects. Many ritual objects are believed
to house spirits or to provide a means of communication with such spirits.
i. Masks: these are worn during festivals, celebrations, ceremonies. The purposes of the masks
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ii. Head Dress: they are worn on top of the head. It has a purpose of investing power into a
King. It has a purpose of blessing the land for cultivation.
iii. Statues: these were used to make contacts with spirits and also guide their powers.
4. Objects of Divination: Another African religion is divination. This is the act of receiving
hidden knowledge or insight from supernatural sources .Yoruba people in Nigeria and Benin use
a decorated tray for divination.
3. Adornment Function
African art also involved adornment of bodies. Example include tattoos, scars and parts of the
body reshaping. This was for: expression of beauty, indicating title, age, showing social status,
and show of membership.
i. Santification: this is the practice of cutting the skin to produce a permanent scar.
ii. Jewellery: both men and women in Africa adorn themselves with jewellery. They used to do
this using earrings, necklaces, armlets, rings, pendant, belts, and bracelets. For example, the
Masai.
iii. Adornment included the use of textiles: Textiles were designed first with dye, stamps and
weaving. They were used to show the status or membership.
iv. Prestige Function: Some of the African arts were made to show prestige (status, family and
other groups). They used to wear swords, Knives and spears on display to indicate status
(authority, power).
Collecting Sculptural Materials from the Environment

There are a number of materials used in the making of sculptures. In Africa the existence of
some materials depends on the nature of the region. That is why you find different kinds of
materials in different regions of Africa.
Effects of Collecting Sculpture Materials from the Environment

Positive Effects:
 Income
 Improved study
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 Tourism
Negative Effects:
 Collecting wood reduces the tree population, hence deforestation.
 The wild life has lost its habitat as swamps and forests are reclaimed and destroyed.
SCULPTURE
The word sculpture comes from a Latin word sculptura meaning to carve or cut. Today it refers
to the art of making three dimensional art works from wood, stone, metal, clay, cement and
plaster of Paris (POP).
Tools and Materials Used in Sculpture

Modern day sculpture can be created from just about any material you can imagine, and some
you cannot. Plaster, concrete, found objects, clay (both fired and unfired), wood, dripped
paint, human hair, wax, latex, light (both natural and created), even sound is a huge area of new
interest in the field of sculpture.
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic
arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modeling
(the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but,
since modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide
variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by modeling,
or molded, or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often
represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though
conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely.
Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large
sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion
or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of
the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.
Types of Sculpture
The basic traditional forms of this 3-D art are: free-standing sculpture, which is surrounded on
all sides by space; and relief sculpture (encompassing bas-relief, alto-relievo or haut relief, and
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i. Free-standing Sculpture stands on its own, surrounded by space. It can be viewed from
all sides and angles .
ii. Relief sculpture sticks out from a fixed background; it appears to be raised from a wall,
panel or door. It may be either a carved or a modeled sculpture. Though it is 3D it can
only be viewed from one side and is therefore not a free standing. The image may stand
out in a high (alto), medium (mezzo) or low (bas) relief.
NB: Relief is an Italian word meaning “to raise”.
Methods and Techniques in Sculpture Making

i. Subractive Method: the sculptor removes material from a block until the desired shape
is achieved .e.g. wood, stone, wax, and soap carvings.
ii. Additive Method: in additive method the sculptor adds materials in order to build up the
desired form. The two main processes of building up sculptures by addition are
(a).modeling, in which clay, wax, papier mache etc, are used to build up forms, and
iii. (b). construction, in which two or more materials are joined together. Note that casting is
also an additive method.
Kinds of Sculptures
 Realistic Sculptures
 Abstract Sculptures
 Non –Objective Sculpture
Techniques used for Different Types of Sculptures

1. Casting
In the casting process, an artist creates a sculpture from a soft, malleable substance such as wax,
plaster or clay. This sculpture will serve as the model that will be encased in plaster, silica or
some other substance to make a cast. Eventually, a fireproof cast is produced that can be filled
with moulten metal such as bronze. When the metal cools, the result is metal version of the
original sculpture. The major benefit of casting is that the artist may be able to produce multiple
copies of the sculpture using the same cast.
2. Carving
It is the process of creating a sculpture by cutting or chipping a form from a solid mass of
material using some sort of chisel or carving tool. Carving is known as a subtractive method of
sculpture because material is taken away from the mass. The most common materials used in
carving sculptures are stone and wood. In fact, most sculptures throughout history were made
using this method. Michelangelo’s David, perhaps the most famous sculpture in history was
carved from a block of solid marble.
3. Modelling
It is a process by which the artist uses a soft, pliable material such as wax, clay or plaster that is
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additive method, as a sculptor is continually adding material to the form. The material will
typically be constructed on top of some sort of metal frame or skeleton known as armature to
lend support to the soft material and also to maintain its shape.
4. Assembling
In this technique, the artist will take existing materials and attach them together in some fashion,
with the resulting combination of materials forming the sculpture. Sculptures created through
this process, typically use found objects such as scrap metal pieces that are welded together.
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING
Perspective comes from the Latin word prospectus meaning to look forward. It is the method of
drawing solid objects on a flat surface to give them the illusion of depth and space. It can also be
a technique used to represent three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional picture plane.
Principle of perspective
The principle of perspective is that objects of the same size appear smaller as they move further
away from the eye of the spectactor. For example, three pole lines of the same size (a) in the
foreground, (b)in the middle ground and (c)in the background appear smaller as they recede from
the eye of the artist or viewer.
Forms of perspective
One point perspective
One point perspective is a drawing method that shows how things appear to get smaller as they
get further away, converging towards a single ‘vanishing point’ on the horizon line. It is a way of
drawing objects upon a flat piece of paper (or other drawing surface) so that they look three-
dimensional and realistic.
It is drawn as if we are showing a railroad tracks leading away to the horizon. All lines that are
parallel in real life are shown as coming from a single point called the vanishing point.
Two Point Perspective

Two-point perspective has two vanishing points. All lines that are parallel in real life are drawn
as if they come from these two points. Such a drawing consists of a horizon line, two vanishing
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Parallel, vertical lines are drawn to indicate where the building or form ends. The closer that
these lines are placed in space to the vanishing points on either side, the longer the form appears.
When a form is placed so that it overlaps the horizon, no additional lines are needed to define the
overall form of the object. However, it is important to note that additional lines do exist. These
lines are visible when the subject is placed above the horizon line or below it.
Orthogonals extend out from each end of the form and line up with the opposite vanishing point.
The location of intersection that occurs defines the back corner of the cube, which is drawn using
a vertical line.
Below the Horizon Line
For forms placed below the horizon line the steps remain the same. However, the top of the form
will be visible. This means that the top portion of the form will be defined by the orthogonal
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Here again, some of the lines are not visible in the finished drawing (red lines). It is important to
note that the locations of where these lines intersect define the back corner of the cube.
Above the Horizon Line
For forms placed above the horizon line, the same steps are followed. In this case, the bottom
portion of the form is now visible to the viewer. The bottom portion is defined by extending lines
from each end of the cube to the opposite vanishing point.
As is the case with the other examples, additional lines (red lines) exist but are not visible in the
finished drawing. When complete, all lines that are no longer needed can be erased revealing the
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Adding Additional Details
Additional details can be added to a scene to create limitless possibilities. Vertical lines are
drawn to indicate edges and corners, while orthogonal lines are drawn for parallel edges that
recede into space.
How to Draw with Three Point Perspective
Linear perspective is a method of creating the illusion of space on a two-dimensional surface

using lines. Linear perspective is often used in conjunction with one or more of the other
six ways to create the illusion of space. There are three types of linear perspective with each
method having a different appropriate use.
The three point perspective is actually the least used form of linear perspective. This is ironic
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world of drawing, however, three-point perspective is most commonly used when the viewer’s
point of view is extreme.
A good way to consider this viewpoint would be to imagine you looking up at a very tall building or
perhaps looking down from a very high distance. These extreme vantage points would best be
depicted using three point perspective.
The main distinguishing factor present in three point perspective is in its name. A one point
perspective makes use of one vanishing point. Two-point perspective uses two vanishing points. It
should come as no surprise that three-point perspective uses three vanishing points. The third
vanishing point in three point perspective is not placed on the horizon line as seen with two point and
one point perspective. Instead the third vanishing point is placed under or above the horizon line.
Often the bottom vanishing point is placed off of the picture plane.
Here’s how three-point perspective works step by step…
Like the other two forms of linear perspective, the first step is to define the horizon line. If you
plan on placing the object below the horizon, be sure to draw the horizon on the top portion of
the paper. If the object that you are drawing is to be placed above the horizon, be sure to place
the horizon line near the bottom portion of the paper.
Next, place two vanishing points across from each other on the horizon line. You’ll want to be
sure to space these vanishing points out. If you place them too close to each other, your resulting
drawing will be distorted. Also, be sure that both vanishing points are placed on the horizon line.
It’s okay if the vanishing points are not on the paper, just on the horizon line. (Remember the
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Now draw two lines from each of the vanishing points so that each set of lines intersects below
the horizon line. If you do this correctly, it will resemble two intersecting roads.
Next, place the third vanishing point below the intersecting lines. The closer that you place the
vanishing point to the intersecting lines, the more extreme your perspective will become. If you
place the third vanishing point too close to the intersecting lines, you will create unwanted
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Now, draw lines upward from your third vanishing point so that they intersect with lines that
intersected in the previous step. Extend these lines out far enough to “hold’ the form that you are
drawing.
Next, close off the top of your object by drawing lines that extend beyond the tips of the lines
that extend from the bottom vanishing point. These lines should originate from the other two
vanishing points
Now you can darken up the lines that you will keep and erase the lines that you no longer need to
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Lastly, you can add value to the sides of your object to create the illusion of space further.
You can also follow the same steps to create a vantage point from the ground by placing the
horizon line low on the picture plane and placing the third vanishing point above the horizon
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TIE AND DYE

Tie-and-dye is a method of textile design in which certain areas of the fabric are either bound,
tied in knots, folded or stitched to prevent the die from penetrating the fabric. The tied cloth is
immersed in dye bath. The parts which are tied or stitched retain their original color; the
remainder is dyed to the new color. The patterns are determined by the kind of ties and how they
are placed on the fabric.
Materials used in tie and dye

1. Caustic Soda
2. Sodium Hydro-sulphite
3. White or plan garment
4. Rubber gloves
5. Strings or rubber bands
6. Dye (colour)
7. Bucket or tub.
Methods Used in Tie and Dye

The tie and dye craft can be done using the following methods;
(a) Gathering: Gathering is done by sewing a line of simple stitches along the length,
width or diagonal of the fabric. The stitches are then pulled to gather the fabric into
bundles.
(b) Circling: Circling is carried out by bunching up sections of the fabric and tying them
with string or elastic bands. The less fabric tied, the smaller the resulting circles; the
more fabric, the broader the resulting circles. Inserting round objects into the tied
areas results in interesting patterns. A very small circle can be created by just
pinching up a spot on the fabric and tying it.
(c) Crumping: The fabric is crumpled (squeezed together randomly) and tied. It produces
marbled effects in the dyed cloth.
(d) Pleating: Pleating means careful folding. The fabric is folded into plates, i.e .a series
of parallel folds, and tied tightly with string. After dyeing the fabric displays stripes
of colour, either vertically or horizontally, depending on the direction of plates.
There are many kinds of synthetic dyes, and their preparation differs e.g. some dyes
require cold water while others need hot water. Hot water dyes give superior results
in tie and dyeing and requires much shorter dyeing times. However natural dyes or
colorants derived from plants, minerals or soil can be used.
The majority of natural dyes are from vegetables, plants sources such roots, berries,
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BATIK
Batik is Japanese word meaning wax painting or writing with wax. It is a technique of dyeing
fabric by protecting certain areas with wax. Wax acts as a resistance, meaning “a cloth with little
dots” many Japanese batik fabrics do, in fact have finely dotted designs. Both traditional and
modern artists use a specialized tool called a jaunting to wax the fabric.
Materials
Natural cotton cloth is the easiest and best for batik work. Pre-wash the fabric in hot soapy water
to remove any grease or sizing (starch additive) that could prevent it from dyeing evenly. Natural
materials such roots berries, barks, seeds, vegetables can be crushed and boiled to give out color.
In batik, cold reactive dyes can be used at room temperature. These cold reactive dyes like many
other dyes are not color fast or per meant until other chemicals are used to fix the dye. For
example; the procion MX dye used on cotton cloth to make batik is fixed with sodium carbonate
and work more effectively if urea is added as well.
Methods of Batik
1. Develop a Design
Develop a design on a piece of paper and then transfer or trace the design on cloth. After
drawing, stretch the cloth over a wooden frame and attach it with thumb tracks, so that the design
is taunt, without folds.
2. Heat the wax to a liquid
Melt wax in a pot or electric wax melting pot. Batik wax is usually a mixture of white paraffin
wax and Bee wax. If wax is unavailable, cassava flower or starch can be mixed with water to a
paste, but these are inferior to wax. Gel glue can also be used as wax.
3. Apply hot wax to the design
Apply hot wax with a brush or jaunting tool on the cloth. The hot wax should flow easily and
sink into the fabric. Brushes and jaunting tools are used to apply wax. Because wax cools more
quickly on a brush than in a jaunting tool, the wax should a little hotter when working with
brushes. When finished allow the wax to cool completely and then remove the cloth from the
frame.
4. Dye the waxed cloth
There are two methods; Dipping and painting, and the same dye is used for both. Procyon MX
dye is a good choice. Because it is a cold water dye, it can be used for batik without softening or
melting the wax.
5. Rinse and dry fabric completely
Rinse the dyed cloth several times in cool water, to remove excess dye and soda ash, but don’t
yet try to remove the wax. Hang up the cloth to dry completely, until all moisture is gone.
Colour as Pigment
Paints used in art are made up of three basic ingredients; pigment, binder/ paint vehicle and
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Pigment
This is a coloring matter and is usually manufactured is a fine powder. It must be mixed with a
binding agent to form paint.
Binder/Vehicle
This is a liquid like resin, oil or water that is mixed with pigments to make paint. The paint
binder is also known as paint vehicle
The binder allows the coloured pigments to adhere to the painted surface.
Linseed oil is a common binder in oil paints, while Gum Arabic is a binder for water colors.
Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil, is a colorless to yellowish oil obtained from the ripened
seeds of a flax plan.
Solvent- A solvent dissolves the other ingredients of the point. The amount of solvent controls
the thickness or thinness of paint.
Turpentine/Thinners/Paraffin are the usual solvents in oil paint. Whereas water is the solvent for
water colors. Solvents are also used to clean brushes and removed spilled paint.
Sources of Pigments
Pigments are variously derived from animal’s plants, and minerals. Pre- history people made
their paints from natural pigments e.g. soil, clay. Today, many synthetic pigments have been
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DRAWING AND PAINTING

Drawing is an act of creating an image on the surface. It is an act of making a picture dragging a
tool such as a pencil, pen, brush, charcoal on any given surface. Drawing is an art of creating an
image on a surface. It can also be an art work created on the surface.
Types of Drawing/ Painting

Realistic Drawing
This is a drawing or type of drawing or painting in which the objects looks very similar to
real-life objects. Realistic drawings or paintings usually have well defined themes or
subject matter, for instance, still life drawing or imaginative composition.
Abstract Drawing/Painting
Abstract drawing or paintings are those types of art works that have simplified and
distorted forms.
In most cases, an observer has to struggle to pick out what the art is all about and
normally observers will give versions of what they are seeing in the art piece
Non- Objective/Painting
This is a drawing or painting with no recognizable subject matter. Because the art work
has no base in reality, it cannot look a real thing. Colors and shapes are usually prominent
in such a work of art.
Approaches to Drawing
There are three main approaches to drawing namely, drawing from memory, drawing from
observation and drawing from imagination.
1.Drawing from Observation

Drawing from observation means carefully studying an object or objects and recording what is
observed. It is drawing what is being seen as set in front. Drawing from observation needs
critical observation and quick mental studies and these can be carried out in four different levels.
i. Quick Sketching
a) Study of simple forms.
b) Detailed study of complex forms of parts
c) Finished complex composition e.g. still life, portrait or landscape.
So, drawing from observation can be done by drawing natural man- made or both
types of objects (still life in nature).
2. Drawing from Memory

This is a type of drawing involving mental recall and making images of past events or past
experience. It means to draw pictures of remembered things, especially events that where
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3. Drawing from Imagination

Drawing from imagination means creation of new images or ideas by combining previous
experiences. Sometimes images are created or formed from one’s mind without even
experiencing them. Or it could be the creation of mental images from outside the worlds of
reality, such as angels singing in heaven.
Materials and Tools in Art

Artist and art students employ many tools and materials. Some art materials that often found in
studios and schools include the following:
i. Pencils
A range of pencils are used in drawing e.g. hard pencils ranging from 9H, 3H, 2H, H and soft
pencils ranging from 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B.
The hardness of a pencil is shown by H and the softness by B. The hardest is 9H and the softest
is B. HB is in between.
ii. Charcoal
Charcoal is a soft, dark, carbon substance produced by charring wood or vines in the art studio it
used for drawing.
iii. Pastels
Pastels are crayons sticks made of powered pigments mixed with a gun binding agent. Works
made of pastels are called paintings rather than drawings, because is usually applied not as lines,
but more thickly, like a kind of smooth painting.
iv. Tempera Paint
Tempera paint is a quick-drying painting medium, made by, mixing ground pigment with a
binding agent- egg York alone or mixed with egg white- and diluting it. Tempera does not spread
easily or blend well. Therefore, clean transparent layers of colours must be built up little by little.
Tempera colours are available in either powder or liquid form. In powder form they must be first
mixed with clean water to desired consistency. Once dry, tempera is water proof.
v. Acrylic Paint
Acrylic paint is a quick- drying, water based synthetic paint. It binds strongly to most surfaces
and lasts for a long time. It can be applied thickly like oil paint or diluted to make transparent
water colour washes. The binder for acrylic paint is acrylic polymer, once dry acrylic is
waterproof.
vi. Oil Paint
Oil paint has an oil base, made by mixing ground pigment with oil, usually linseed oil, as a
binding agent. Oil paint can be applied in thick, battery layers called impasto to create interesting
textures. Impasto is an Italian word meaning “a mix of thick colour”. If done with a palette knife,
the impasto technique leaves distinctive marks in painting
vii. Water Colour
Water colour is a type of paint with a water soluble binder making the paints themselves highly
soluble in water. Commonly, the pigments are blended with gum Arabic and water. Water
colours may be sold in solid block form or in tubes or bottles.
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Poster paint is the popular name for brightly coloured water based paints (gouache) that are
frequently used by student that are frequently used by students at schools.
ix. Chalk
Chalk is a kind of soft white lime stone that is sometimes used as a drawing material. It may also
be ground and mixed with pigment to make pastels and other crayons.
x. Crayons
Crayons today, refers to any wax-based drawing tool in stick form, but in the past such a colored
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FIGURE DRAWING
Figure drawing is the drawing of a human shape and form in different gestures and postures. In
figure drawing artists usually draw from observation of a live model.
Human figure drawing initially depends on making quick eye sight on the model and guide
sketches, with these techniques your eyes must flow with the drawing tool.
Elements and principles of art are important in figure drawing but the most important principle is
proportion.
Proportion: is the relationship between two objects. Body proportion is the study relationships
of human body parts to each other on the whole body.
For example, for an infant, three heads long make up a full body structure. A young child is five
to six head tall and an over adult is seven heads tall. It is in few occasions where the principle of
proportion does not work for example in foreshortening.
Parts of a Human Figure

The head is formulated by the skull. Some people have got box like heads and others oval shaped
heads. When drawing the parts of the head (eye, nose, ears, mouth) keep relating them to each
other in terms of size, space and their location on the body.
NOTE: If the arms are stretched, they should not go beyond the middle of the thighs.
Stages of Drawing
Stages in drawing can be discussed in three broad stages, these are as follows;
1. Sketches
These are simple forms of drawing. They are visual notes which are drawn on paper regarding
some theme which seems to be of interest at a particular time.
Sketches are made as records of objects or ideas that are of interest or as a hobby for self-
expression. For art and design students and you can only gain from it through constant practice.
2. Drawing as a Study
This category of drawing is carried out as a study of a particular object, involving observation of
a set of objects, a particular object or a specific part of an object. This type of drawing is used as
a means of exploring a theme and creating greater understanding of the form and structure of
objects. It also shows greater awareness of structure of service and. Form being rendered and
also shows evidence of serious thinking during its production.
It is advisable to carry out detailed studies in drawing as a part of preparation for painting,
sculpture architectural designs, ceramics and graphic designs.
3. Drawing as a Complete Work
Drawing as a complete work of art, is a drawing carried out as a medium of expression which is
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COLOUR
Introduction
Colour is very important for its visual appeal. It is abundantly found in our environment, in
plants, grass, flowers, animals, birds, insects, fishers, the sky above-just to mention but a few .
Some these use colour as a means of attraction or camouflage. It is also found in the clothes we
wear, the food we eat, the houses we live in. Some of the common colours are red, blue, green,
yellow, brown, black, white, orange, etc.
Colour is the pigmentation that our eyes interpret as Hue, Value and intensity. But what are Hue,
Value and Intensity?
a) Hue: The word Hue refers to the name of a colour. For example blue, red, yellow, etc.
b) Value: Value in art refers to the lightness or darkness of the Hue or colour. For
example, yellow and orange have light value, while green and purple have dark value.
c) Instensity: Intensity on the other hand refers to the brilliance or pureness of a colour.
A colour lie yellow is at its highest intensity, while a colour look brown is at lowest
intensity.
Colour can be found everywhere in our environment.
Categories of Colours
a) Natural Colours
As the word natural suggests, are the colours that are found in Nature or the Environment. These
are the pure original colours. You can extract these colours from those sources by pounding,
squeezing, mashing, crushing, trapping, soaking, etc
b) Artificial Colours
Artificial colours are the colours that are made by mankind that do not naturally occur in nature.
These colours are produced on a large scale by people in factories for everyday use in the form
of clothes, food, etc. They are produced from chemical known as pigments.
Types of Colours
Both Natural and Artificial colours can fall under the following categories
1. Primary-Colours:
Primary Colours are those that can NOT be obtained by mixing other colours. The primary
Colours are pure and original. These are Red, Yellow and Blue.
2. Secondary-Colours
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RED + YELLOW = ORANGE
BLUE + RED = VIOLET/PURPLE
YELLOW + BLUE = GREEN
3. Complementary Colours
These are the colours which can be obtained by mixing any two Primary Colours. They lie
opposite each other on the Colour Wheel, and they sharply contrast each other. There are six
colours that make up the Colour wheel. They are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and
violet
4. Tertiary/Intermediate Colours
Tertiary Colours are the colours that can be obtained by mixing a Primary Colour with a
Secondary Colour. As such, elements or traces of the primary and secondary colours are retained
in the mixture. Tertiary colours are at times known as Intermediate colours.
5. Triad-Colours
Triad Colours are the colours that are of Equal distance from each other on the Colour Wheel.
Triad colours lie opposite each other on the Colour-Wheel.
6. Analogous-Colours
Analogous-colours are the colours that are closely related to each on the Colour-Wheel.
Analogous colours are neighbour colours on the Colour-Wheel. For example the colour blue-
violet and violet, all have the colour blue in them. Families of Analogous colours include the
warm- colours-(red<orange and yellow), and the cool-colours-(blue<green and violet).
7. Cool-Colours
Cool-Colours are the colours that when looked at, give a feeling of coolness. These are the
colours that are associated with sky, water, spring or vegetation.
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8. Warm-Colours
Warm colours on the other hand when looked at, give a feeling of warmth. Warm colours are
associated with Fire/Heat, Sun and Earth
Foreign Colour
A foreign colour is the temporal colouring of an object due to its proximity to another object is
moved away, the foreign colour on the other object also goes. A foreign colour is obtained due to
the reflection of the bright colour of an object near to it. When the bright-coloured object is
moved away, the foreign colour on the other object also goes. For example a red-coloured bottle
standing against a colourless one, will have the red colour reflected on the colourless one, giving
an impression of all of them being red.
The Spectrum
The spectrum is the band of colours that form white light. The Spectrum can be man-made using
a prism or naturally formed in the sky in the form of a rainbow. The Spectrum has seven (7)
colours.
Mono-Chrome
Mono- chrome is a one colour interpretation. The word mono means one, while chrome means
colour. We therefore refer of a picture with only one colour as monochromatic.

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DESIGN ON PAPER
Symbols
Logo
A logo is a visual symbol of a company, product, business, club or group. It is used by
companies as part of their corporate label. It may be done using letters initials, symbols,
character or stylized image. A logo can also be defined as a graphical mark used to identify a
company, an organization, product or brand. Logos are usually used by money making
organizations and have slogans.
Qualities of a good logo
i. Simplicity
ii. Attractive
iii. symbolic
Emblem
An emblem is a visual symbol with a symbolic meaning, sometimes accompanied by explanatory
text. It represents an idea or goal or belief. Sometimes it is worn as an identifying badge to
associate the wearer with the idea. Emblems are used by non- profit making organization e.g.
schools, churches. An emblem usually has a motto.
Cards
Two Categories of Cards include;
i. single faced cards
ii. double faced cards
Posters
A poster is a paper or polythene material with information pinned in place for the public to be
informed. It is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface.
Qualities of a Good Poster
1. Clear message in words, illustrations or both. It must give a clear message that can be read or
interpreted at a glance.
2. Attractive and informative. It must attract attention. Use of bright colours and images must be
part of the poster.
3. It must be simple: lettering on posters should be minimal and clear. It should reflect the poster
´s purpose. Avoid fancy letters.
4. Components of a poster should portray the same information. e.g. the text should speak the
same massage as illustrated.
Types of Posters
i. Informative posters
ii. Educative
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Lettering
Lettering is the act or process of forming letters. Calligraphy is one type of lettering; it is the art
of beautiful writing. However, there are other types of letters especially computer fonts or
typefaces for example; Times New Roman, Arial etc.
PRINTING
Printing is an art or technique of making impressions on a surface. A print is a mark made on a
surface. Print-making is a process of making a design meant for printing impressions on the
surface on paper, wood, metal or fabric.
Print making
Print making is the art of putting a design on a surface through the process of duplication.
Methods of print making include;
Methods of Printing
There are various ways of transferring the motif on the surface onto another. The following are
the methods used;
1. Relief Printing (printing is made by raised surfaces)
This is a printing method in which the image to be printed is raised above the base or background
such as the impressions of the rubber stamp. Non – printing areas are cut away, leaving the
printing areas raised above the rest in low relief. Ink is applied to the raised areas. The most
common of the relief method is wood cut and Linocut.
Wood cut -To make a wood cut the artist first draws the desired image on a block of wood and
cuts gouges out all the background areas that are not meant to print so that the image stands out
in relief. When the block is inked, only the raised areas take up the ink. Printing is done by
pressing the inked surface onto the printing surface to transfer the ink and making the print.
Lino cut -A linoleum cut or lino cut, is very similar to a wood cut, except that is much softer
than wood. This makes linoleum much easier to carve and less durable in printing multiple print
impressions. Since linoleum has no grains, it is possible to make cuts in any directions with equal
ease.
2. Intaglio Method (printing is made from sunken areas)
Intaglio is an Italian word for incise or cut in. Intaglio is exactly the reverse of relief in that the
areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate. The artist uses a sharp tool or
acid to make depressions in the form of lines or grooves in the metal plate. When the plate is
inked, the ink sinks into the depressions then the surface of the plate is wiped clean. When
dampaned paper is brought into contact with the plate under pressure, the paper is pushed into
the inked depressions to pick up the image. There are five (5) basic types of intaglio these are
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3. Silk Screen Printing: This is the method of printing where an image to be printed is put on
the mounted or stretched silk and then ink is forced through a screen design with a squeegee to
create an impression on the given surface.
4. Stencil Printing: Stenciling is considered a technique for creating art forms which are
complete themselves. It is also suited for transferring images on fabric as a means of decoration,
communication and advertising. In stencil process, images are cut from a strong thin material
such as an X-ray film or an ordinary paper. Unwanted parts are usually removed and ties are
created to help wanted areas remain holding to the main surface. Paint or ink is duped through
the cut out areas using a form or cushion. Flat surfaces are usually printed using this method.
5. Lithography, Plano graph or Surface Technique
The paleographic technique refers to making prints from a completely flat surface as opposed to
a raised surface (as with relief printing). This type of printing is based on the principle that oil
and water do not mix.
The design is drawn on a porous stone (often limestone) with grease crayons. Water is applied to
the surface of the stone and oily ink is then rolled across it. Whenever the crayons repel the
water, the ink adheres. When paper is pressed against the inked stone, the lithographic
impression appears.
Block printing: This is a printing technique used to create patterns by cutting or carving a
design in a block of wood and gouging out all the background areas that are not meant to print so
that the image stands out in relief. When the block is inked, only the raised areas take up the ink.
Printing is done by pressing the inked surface onto the printing surface to transfer the ink and
making the print.
Serigraphy
The word serigraphy is derived from the Latin words seri which mean silk and graphics which
means to write. It means the art of making colour print employing a silk screen process which is
printed by the artist himself. In serigraphy there are two main techniques:

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CRAFTS
Crafts are artworks made for a functional purpose. The term “crafts” originally referred to
handmade products that were mainly functional. A motif is a single unit of a design. Crafts
include weaving, bead work, basketry and ceramics among many others.
Mosaic: This is an image made up of small pieces of paper, glass, marble, tiles, shells or seeds.
These are glued to a surface to form a decoration with a strong unique design. Mosaic was
invented by Romans. It was adopted for wall and ceiling decorations. Materials used in mosaic
include; glass, paper, stone and seeds.
A Frieze: A frieze is a decorative band, usually, but not always, above a door frame or on the
wall near the ceiling.
Papier Mache: Papier Mache is a French word for mashed paper. This is a method of making
artworks in which paper is torn into strips or made into pulp and mixed with glue or paste.
Collage
Collage is a French word for sticking or pasting. It is refers to artwork made from cut or torn
materials pasted onto a background. Collage is also a general term for an artistic arrangement of
various materials glued to a surface. A typical collage is a picture created wholly or partly from
pieces of paper, cloth and other materials that are glued to a canvas in the early 20 th century by
French cubist Picasso and Braque.
Montage
Montage is a French word for mounting. It means the cutting and grouping together of many
pictures to form a new picture. Photo montage was started in 1920s in Germany by an artist
known as John Heartfeild.
Photomontage is now a popular graphic medium used in book illustrations, posters, record
covers, book covers, political propaganda etc.
Weaving
Weaving is carried out by interlacing as a set of vertical threads (the warp) with a set of
horizontal threads (weft) that are held at right angles to each other on a loom. The warp threads
run the length of the fabric and are kept at constant tension during the weaving process. The weft
threads run the width of the fabric and are manipulated to form pattern from side to side across
the cloth as it is woven.
Loom
A loom is a framework used for weaving fibers to make a cloth. Cotton wool, plastic strips of
paper, glass etc. are some of the materials that may be woven on traditional hand looms.
Tapestry
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The Structure of Fabric

The internal pattern of threads in a cloth is called its structure or its weave. The most common
thread patterns are; plain weave, twill weave and twinning weave
Plain Weave
The plain weave is also known as the tobby weave. It is the simplest structure each weft thread
passes over one warp thread and under the next one again and again continuing across the entire
width and length of the fabric.
Twill Weave
The twill weave creates a pattern of diagonal lines in the fabric. There are two basic twill
weaves. In the both sides of the fabric look the same. In the other, the front and the back shows
different patterns. The twill weave is also known as the balance weave.
Twinning Weave
The twinning weave is a chaining technique in which two weft threads cross each other
whenever they pass through the warp. The twinning weave is normally used in making of the
baskets, rugs and carpets.
Appliqué
Appliqué is an art form in which cut out fabric decorations are fastened to a larger surface to
create a new design. Commonly, it is the method in which small pieces of fabric are sewn onto a
larger piece of cloth.
Stitchery/Embroidery
Stitchery or embroidery is the craft of stitching yarn, thread, string or other materials to a fabric
to make a design. Stitchery is most frequently hanging etc. stitchery is also known as embroidery
Common Stitches Used as Stitchery
1. Running stitch. (plain and threaded)
2. Blanket stitch
3. Buttonhole stitch
4. Chain stitch(plain and square)
5. Cross stitch
Ornaments
These are objects that enhance a person’s appearance. Ornaments are also used to decorate
rooms and occasionally, animals or other objects. Ornaments are used for various reasons: some
people use ornaments to beautify themselves or to decorate their belongings. Others wear them
because of traditional beliefs or to enhance a ceremony or event. Materials used for ornaments
include ostrich eggs, discarded shells seeds, seed pods, clay, pebbles, horns, feathers etc. some of
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Jewelry
Jewelry refers to objects that are worn as personal decorations only such as rings, necklaces etc.
Jewelry as Craftwork
1. Bone jewellery.
2. Metal jewellery.
3. Paper Machejewellery.
4. Bead work jewellery.
Bone Jewelry
Bone jewelry is made from bones by cutting them into different shapes and polished to be used
as beads, bangles, pendants or parts of a necklace. Bone jewelry can be decorated by;
1. Incising (cutting) patterns into the surface.
2. Painting
3. Wiring
Matal Jewelry
Metal jewelry is made out of one or more different metals, of which gold and silver are the most
famous and most expensive. Other metals like copper, brass, aluminum and even scrap iron can
also be cut and shaped into jewelry.
Metal jewelry is formed by cutting, bending, joining and decorating. Some metals can be painted
or stained.
Papier Mache Jewelry
Papier Mache jewelry is made from newspapers and glossy magazines. Paper and papier mache
can be used in different ways for ornaments e.g.
1. Paper as pulp.
2. Cut and shape paper.
3. Rolled paper.
4. Paper parts attached to each other.
When papier mache is dry it can be painted and vanished.
Beadwork
Beads are items of adornment when strung together into designs and patterns.
Types of Bead Work
1. Strung bead work
2. Strung and knotted bead work
3. Woven-stitched bead work
4. Stop-stitched bead work
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BASKETRY
Basketry is the art of making baskets. People produce baskets for different purposes e.g.
Carrying items, storing grains or trapping fish, while others produce them as ritual or symbolic
objects. Baskets are used for both functional and decorative. Many different plant material are
used in basket making such as grass or palm.
Tools
The main tools for basketry are the fingers, the other implements are few and simple. They
include sharp knife for cutting and trimming materials, mallets to flatten materials and bowls and
buckets for soaking materials.
Technique Used in Basketry

1. Coiling
2. Wickerwork
3. Twining
4. Twinning
5. Plaiting
MASK MAKING
A mask is a three dimensional art work that covers protects or hides the face. In many parts
masks are used for harvest, celebrations, initiation ceremonies and rituals to control super natural
forces. Traditionally masks are usually used for initiation ceremonies and rituals.
Materials for Masks

Materials for masks differ from one tribe to other depending on their nature and use. Masks may
be made out of wood, clay, fabric, wire, plastics, paper, wool fiber grass and many more.
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POTTERY AND CRAFTS

Pottery
Pottery is the traditional way of using clay to make useable or decorative art items for the home.
These can include pots, plates, dishes, cup, water-jars etc. Women were in the forefront in
Pottery making. They used, and are still using simple hand tools if any. These clay items were
well decorated in many different ways, while the clay was still somehow soft so as to give them
beauty, and later fired in a traditional oven in order to harden them.
Ceramics
Ceramics is the other name for Pottery. Ceramics is the modern way of making clay items using
Modern technology and techniques, and these plates, cups, pots, etc. are produced or made on a
large scale by hand on machines that rotate called Kick-Wheels or Potters-Wheel. These clay
pieces are then left to dry, later polished, glazed and fired in an electric oven known as a Kiln.
Clay
Clay is the very fine part of earth’s crust found near the surface and when properly mixed with
water contains the following characteristics:
Plasticity: Clay can easily be worked with because of its ability to take any shape. The clay can
be lengthened, squeezed, thinned, or broadened with little or no difficult. The ability of the clay
to change shape easily is known as Plasticity.
Polarity: The clay particles are very fine; as such they allow very little water to pass through.
Therefore the water polarity in clay soil is very low; while in soil is very high
Workability: Clay soil can easily be manipulated by any hand or worked on without any much
difficulty mainly due to the fineness of its particles.
Warpage: Clay items can lose shape or get deformed due to excessive heat in the Kiln during
the heating process, the uneven body formation of the product itself.
Shrinkage: Clay items shrink or reduce in size from the original. This is due to the effect of the
extreme heat in the Kiln during the firing process.
Sources of Clay
Clay can be obtained from different sources. Can you think of places or areas in your
environment where clay can be obtained?
You can obtain your clay from different sources such as:
 On river banks
 In swamps
 In dambos
 On shores of Lakes
 In valleys
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Types of Clay
There are many different types of clay. Some of them are:
Red-Clay: This clay has a red-colour, is very fine in texture, has high plasticity and matures
when fired at low temperature.
Ball-Clay: Ball clay is grey to black in colour when raw, but changes to cream white fired. It
also has very high plasticity.
Stone-ware Clay: This type of clay is black to grey in colour, very fine and semi-porous.
China-clay: China clay is often known as Kaolin. It is a black to grey in colour when raw, but
changes to white when fired. China clay can stand very high temperatures, and therefore it is
refractory.
Preparation of Clay
Before clay is declared ready for use, it has to pass through a lot of preparatory stages. Some of
these stages are:
Collection: A site should be identified where good clay soil can be obtained. The collected clay
should then be spread flat and let to dry, after the bigger unwanted particles such as grass, stones,
twigs etc have been removed.
Crushing: The big lumps of clay are then crushed to powder with sticks or in a motor.
Soaking: After crushing, the powder is then put in big containers and soaked in water and left to
stand for a couple of days. This enables all the clay particles to dissolve and form porridge like
clay. The visible unwanted particles are easily removed by hand at this stage.
Sieving: Sieving follows immediately after soaking. The porridge like clay is made to pass
through a mesh, or sieve with very small holes, thus trapping behind the smaller unwanted
particles that were difficulty to rid-off during the soaking stage.
Leather-Hard: We say the clay is leather-hard when is not very soft and not that hard. It is
during this stage of the clay when it is ready and good enough to be used, because it can easily
be manipulated. All body decorations on clay articles should be made or added on during this
stage.
Wedging: The clay you have so far prepared, still contains very small unwanted particles like
fibers, roots etc. These can only be removed by Wedging. Wedging is the removing of the
unwanted particles by passing a string through the clay. The fibers get trapped or caught to the
string as it is being passed through.
What do you think will happen to the article if the clay was not properly wedged? The clay
article will crack or break when fired at a very high temperature in the Kiln. The last stage in the
preparation of clay is kneading. Kneading is the hitting of lump of clay against a hard surface,
so as to compress it and remove the trapped pockets of air. What happens if the air pockets in the
clay are not removed? If these air pockets in the clay articles will crack or even explode when
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Drying of Clay Articles

After the clay articles have been made, there should be put open space where is free flow of air.
The articles so made should not exposed to direct sun-light or extreme heat as rapid water
evaporation from their bodies will make the pieces crack.
Methods of Making Clay Articles

There are many ways in which clay articles can be made. Some of the common methods are that
people in communities use in making clay pots, jars etc are:
Slab Method: The Slab method is one of the commonly used. Here an even slab of clay is
prepared and laid flat. Then an appropriate required shape of an article is cut and its ends joined
and other parts later added to it using Slip.
The most common items made in this way are plates, pots, cups and mugs.
Pinch Method: The Pinch method is also one of the famous widely used methods.
A big lump of clay is used, and the thumb assisted by other fingers is used to pinch the centre
and build-up, and shape it into the required design. Slip can then be used to add any part to it.
Common products of this method include cups, jars, and mugs.
Coil method: As the word coil suggests, it entails the making of the clay into many coils of
required size and thickness. These are later continuously laid one on top of the other and joined
together using Slip to come up with the required shape. Cups, jars and pots are some of the items
that are easily made using this method.
Additive method: In the Additive method, a small amount of clay is stated with in the making of
an item. Later on, more and more clay is added on to it as the making process progresses.
Subtractive Method: The Subtractive method is the opposite of the Additive. In the Subtractive
method, a big lump of clay is initially started with, with more and more of the clay being taken
away or removed as the body takes shape.
Moulding Method: You all know how houses are built, Most houses in villages are built of mud
walls, while those in town are of bricks or blocks. Modern houses have their walls moulded or
cast. Moulding is the compressing or pressing of rather hard mixture into a hollow frame known
as a mould. The block mould takes the shape and size of the mould into which it is compressed.
Casting method: Casting is very much similar to moulding. The only major difference is of that
the mixture known as the cast is lighter, and takes hold of the shape of the mould as the mixture
slowly dries-up.
How to Decorate Clay Articles

There are various reasons why we should decorate whatever we make: so that they look
beautiful, attractive and to the eye and gain value. Clay articles should be decorated during the
Leather-hard stage when the clay is easily manipulated. Some of the decorations you can apply
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Incised Decorations: These are the decorations made by artistically cutting into the clay-body a
suitable design using a sharp tool instrument. To incise means the same thing as to engrave.
Embossed Decorations: These are the raised decorations made by adding bits or small lumps of
clay on to the main body so that they get attached to, and make the article look attractive.
embossed decorations mean the same thing as relief decorations.
Pressed Decorations: Pressed decorations are decorations where some objects are pressed into
the clay body while still soft, thus leaving behind an attractive permanent mark.
Preservation of Clay
You have seen that clay needs to be looked after very well, before and after it has been used.
How can you preserve your clay fresh, so that it can be ready for use anytime you want it?
The traditional way being used by the people in the villages of keeping the clay fresh is by
 Rolling and wrapping it in fresh banana leaves, as these stay fresh longer and allow very
little water evaporation;
 Putting and covering the clay in old traditional postal
 Digging a hole, putting clay in it and later covering it, followed by constant watering of
the place.
The modern way of keeping clay fresh is by:

 Putting the clay in plastic containers and cover
 Wrap the clay in air tight plastic bags.
 Put the clay in a plastic container and refrigerate.
Clay Terms
Some common terms used are:
Raw-clay: This is the clay that has not been treated or prepared yet. This clay contains a lot of
impurities or particles such as stones, grasses, twigs, fibres etc.
Green-ware: Green-Ware is the unfired art piece of clay, and because it has not been fired, the
article is very fragile and can easily break.
Bisque: when a Green-Ware is fired in the Kiln, it hardens and changes to a Bisque. Bisque is
the name given to a first firing of a piece of clay.
Scoring: This is the process of roughening up the surfaces of clay bodies that are joined, by
cutting through marks with a shape instrument such as a knife.
Slip: Slip is the liquid like clay that is used to join together pieces or parts of clay articles.
Curing: Curing is the term used to describe the process of heating a clay article until it is finally
ready.
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Figurines: These are smaller than life-size statues of animals, birds, etc. Figurines can be made
of clay, cement, marble, stones etc.
Sculptures: Sculptures are usually larger than life-size. They can be made from cement, clay,
marble. Some, scrap-metal, ensembladge, Plaster of Paris etc. These are usually of symbolic
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WORLD ART HISTORY AND MOVEMENTS.

1. Gothic Art
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art
in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all
of Western Europe, and much of Southern and Central Europe, never quite effacing more
classical styles in Italy. In the late 14th century, the sophisticated court style of International
Gothic developed, which continued to evolve until the late 15th century.
The arts that were done during the Gothic art period were sculpture, Panel Painting, Glass
staining and architecture.
Masters of Gothic Art

i. Duccio(doo-chee-yo)1255 – 1318
Duccio di Buonisegna did panel paintings of scenes from the lives of the Virgin and Christ in
Cathedral of Siena.
The calling of apostles Peter and Andrew
ii. Giotto(jot-toe) 1266-1337. He was a poor shepherd who learnt how to draw on flat stones in
the fields. One day the famous artist Cimabue came across Giotto at work on one of his
drawings. He was so amazed at the boy’s skill that he took him into his studio as his pupil.
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Style
Fresco Techinic
Paintings in Gothic period were done in fresco. To make a fresco, charcoal drawing on a wall
was made then a coat of wet plaster was spread on the dry wall and then retraced the charcoal
lines which could barely seen underneath.
Paint mixed with water and egg white applied directly to the fresh plaster. The paint and the wet
plaster mixed together to form a permanent surface. Sometimes artists painted over the surface
after it had dried, but the repainting usually flexed off in time.
2. The Renaissance
Renaissance Art started in Italy and spread to the other parts of Europe. During this period
scholars and artists began to show interest in the study of and literature of ancient Greece and
Romans.
Artists were interested in painting and making life like appearance of classic art works. They did
a lot of study of anatomy and nature.
Masters of The Renaissance

1. Masaccio(ma-saht-chee-oh) 1405- 1428.
Self portrait The Holy trinity
Masaccio was born in 1401. he is regarded to be the first most important of Italian renaissance.
He was completely devoted to his art that he cared less about his looks. At the age of 21 years, he
painted a painting entitled The Holy Trinity.
2. Leonardo da Vinci(Leonardo da Vinci) 1452- 1519
Leonardo was born in 1452. from t6 the time he was young he was considered to have special
powers. When he grew up, he studied, architecture, Mathematics, music, Botany, hydraulic and
anatomy. It said, he wrote about 120 notebooks with drawings and sketches surrounded by
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Leonardo’s paintings
Mona Lisa The Last Supper.
3. Michelangelo Bounarroti(my-kel-an-jay-loe bwon-na-roe-tee) 1475-1564

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (born March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of
Florence [Italy]—died February 18, 1564, Rome, Papal States), Italian Renaissance sculptor,
painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western
art.Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he
has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting,
sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.
Michaelangelo works.
The virgin and his son Painting in the ceiling
4. Raphael Sanzo(rah-fa-yell sahn-zee-oh) 1483-1520

Raphael was born in 1483 in a small town in Central Italy, probably learnt this first art lesson
from his father who was a painter of the court of Duke. He later migrated to Florence where he
studied the works of the leading artists and became an excellent student. He learnt a lot from
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Raphael’s Painting
Alba Madonna
Other artists are:

1. Donatello 4. Piero della Francesca
2. fillipo Brunelleschi 5. Lorenzo Ghiberti
3. Paolo Uccello
Characteristics of The Renaissance

1. Influenced by the artistic achievements of classical Greece and Rome. Particularly in sculpture
and architecture-Renaissance artists often imitated classical works.
2. Renaissance painting emphasized realism, attention to detail, and a desire for perfection.
3. Early renaissance painters dealt with religious themes but with lifelike approach.
Later renaissance painters also employed a realistic style and continued to recreate Biblical
themes. In addition they also depicted worldly subjects, landscapes, portraits and scenes of
everyday.
3. Baroque Art
Baroque art, the world of light and shadow. Baroque is believed to come from a Portuguese word
baroco which means :an Irregular pear’. at first, it was used to label works that were bizarre or
grotesque. This was later changed and now Baroque is used when reffering to the period from 16
00 to about 17 00 and the style of art that was paracticed during this period.
Style
During Baroque period, sculpture showed the interest in movement, contract ad variety. Further
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Masters of Baroque Period
1. Rembrandt Van Rijn (rem-brant van ryne)1606- 69

Rembradnt was a son of a humble miller. He was often referred to as the greatest Dutch painter
of his era. His works alone make Dutch painting outstanding in the history of western art. He
painted portraits, everyday events, historical subjects and landscapes. Few artists have been so
successful in arousing the viewer’s curiosity.
Rembrandt’s paintings.
Some of his paintings among others are;
The Mill self portrait
An Artist in his Studio
2. Caravaggio-( car-ah-vah-jyoh)1573- 1610

He gave Baroque Art its unique look and feeling. He made light an important part of his
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Caravaggio’s Painting-
The Conversion of St Paul. Santa maria del Popolo
4. Impressionism
A Style of painting that started in France during the 160s. Impressionist artists tried to paint
candid glimpses of their subjects and emphasized the momentary effects of sunlight. They
studied nature and tried to capture the effect of sunlight on subject matter. They used short
brush-strokes to reproduce the flickering quality of sunlight.Their pictures show that they were
less interested in the solid look of forms.They concentrated instead on the changing effects of
light and atmosphere. The leaders of this movement included Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste
Renoir.
Masters of Impressionism
1. Claude Monet (kload muh-nay). 1840- 1926

Claude Monet spent a life time trying to capture in painting the effect of sunlight on subject
matter. He would take an easel, stand in the middle of the farm and try to capture the moment on
canvas. His eyes could move quickly from the haystack in the field to the canvas and back again.

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Haystack at Sunset near Giverny 1891
2. Pierre Auguste Renior (pee-err oh-gust ren-wahr). 1841- 1919

Pierre Auguste Renior loved painting happy moments. He continued painting his happy pictures
even in his old age when he was crippled by rheumatism, brushes had to be tied to his wrists.
3. Mary Cassatt(mair-ee cah-sat) 1845-1917
Mary Cassatt, a daughter a wealthy Pittsburgh banker spent several years in Paris as a child.
During the Civil War, she studied art in Philadelphia even though her father disapproved. He
said he would almost rather see her dead than become an artist. But Cassatt was also strong-
willed, and at the age of twenty-three, she returned to Paris to continue her studies. Degas
challenged her to paint a picture of real merit-and he was impressed with the result that he
bought it.
Cassatt’s painting
Girl Arranging Her Hair.
Post-Impressionism
During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, some artists who had been connected wit
he impressionism began to find fault with it. They felt that it sacrificed to much by trying to
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hoped to overcome some problems with the impressionism style. Paul Cezanne, Vincent van
Gogh and Paul Gauguin, belonged to the group that now called itself post-Impressionism. Each
of them wanted to discover what was wrong or missing in impressionism. Their search for an
answer led them in different directions and had an important effect on the course of art history.
Masters of Post-Impressionism
1. Paul Cezanne (pawl say-zahn) 1839-1906
Early in his career, Paul Cezanne was associated with the Impressionists and even took part in
thei exhibition in 1874. But he never lost his strong affection for the old masters. His studies of
the great artist in the Louvre and led him to believe that Impressionist paintings lacked form,
solidity and structure. He spent the rest of his life trying to restore those qualities to his paintings,
Still Life with Peppermint Bottle. 1894.
2. Vincent Van Gogh (vin-sent van goe) 1853-90
As an young man, van Gogh worked as lay missionary in a poor Belgium mining village. But he
was a failure in this vocation. More and more he withdrew into himself and turned to his art. He
loved art, wherever he went he visited museums and he would draw and paint at every
opportunity. His early pictures were painted in browns and other drab colours and showed
peasants going about their daily routines. One of his early paintings was The Potato Eaters.
He later moved to Paris to be with his brother Theo who was an Art dealer. In Paris he got
influenced by the impressionists and he started painting in bright colours but later began to turn
away. He began to paint fields bathed in sunlight, and trees and flowers that twisted and turned
as if they were alive.
Van Gogh was an unstable personality who suffered from epileptic seizures during the last two
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on a July evening in 1890, in a wheat field where he had been painting, van Gogh shot himself,
he was able to return home but he died two days later.
Starry Night. 1889 oil on canvas The Bedroom at Aries 1888-89 oil on canvas
6. Contemprorary Art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first
century. Contemporary means art that has been and continues to be created during our life time.
The turn of the century saw the end of the Academy’s influence and beginning of a new series of
art movements. One of these movements that came to the public is cubism. The Cubist art
movement was a phase between 1907 and 1920. The look of this art involves segmenting objects
and arranging the pieces in abstracted form, and from multiple viewpoints or perspectives.
This style is built on Cezanne’s ideas about the use of cubes of colour to show form and volume.
Cubist artists tried to present objects as though viewed from several angles at the same time. This
often resulted in a complex arrangement of geometric shapes.
Masters of Cubism
Pablo Picasso (pah-blow pee-cahs-oh) 1881-1973

Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain. As a little boy, he never stopped drawing. He led a
long and productive life. As an artist, he passed through many different stages. For sometime, he
worked in the cubist style the returned to paintings of the human figures.
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The blind man’s meal. 1903, oil on canvas
Other Twentieth-century Art Styles and Artists

Movement or Style Representative Artists
Europe
Fauvism
The fauves took the colours, movements and Henri Matisse
concern for design stressed by Van Gogh and
George Rouault
Gauguin to build a style that wan unrealistic ,
free and wild. Their pictures made use of
recognizable subject matter, but were done as a
flat pattern made with a patchwork of brilliant
colour.
Expressionism
This was a style that grew out of the work of Earnst Kirchner
Van Gogh and flourished among German
Kathe Kollwitz
artists of the world war 1 period.
Expressionists were interested in representing Edvard Munch
deep emotional feelings in their work rather
than painting outward appearances. They used
expressive colour, distortion and exaggeration
to express highly personal feelings of fear,
anxiety, anger and love.
Nonobjective Art
Works done in this style did not make use of
recognizable subject matter. Colours, lines
Vasily Kandinsky
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on the canvas to achieve and effective design

or to communicate emotions or feelings.
Mexico
Mural Painting
Mexican muralists chose to illustrate the Diego Rivera
political and social problems of their people in
Jose Clemente Orozco
large murals which adorned the walls of public
buildings. There everyone could see and David Alfaro Sigueiros
respond to their efforts to illustrate the struggle
of the people determined to fight for justice
and freedom. These powerful and easy to
understand visual statements were intended to
stir the emotions and enlist the sympathy of all
who viewed them.
America
Ashcan
This style was to revolt against conservatism John Sloan
and the academic approach. It was a style in
(George bellows is often associated with this
which artists tried to capture the look and
style.)
flavour of the contemporary world. For subject
matter , they turned to colour and excitement
of the twentieth century city. Its cafes, streets,
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ART TERMS
Art is the expression of thought or ideas through creation of things which are perceived by any
sense of experience.
Art is a superior skill learnt by study observation and practice
Art is wasting space beautifully
Abstract drawing or painting
a painting or drawing that focuses on formal qualities rather than on content or subject matter.
Aerial perspective; colour fading to give the appearance of distance
Analogous colours; colours that lie side by side on the colour wheel or that are next to each
other
Complementary colours; these are colours on the colour wheel that are directly opposite to each
other.
Cool colours; colours which give a feeling of calm or coolness, e.g. blue, purple, and green.
Colour; an art element derived from the reflection of light.
Colour triads; a set of three colours spaced an equal distance apart on the colour wheel.
Arbitrary colours; colours chosen by personal preference rather than by a colour scheme.
Artefacts; any work of art or crafts.
Artist’s donkey; a low stand or chair with drawing board at the far end
Assembling; joining together pieces or segments of found objects.
Basketry; the art and practice of making baskets.
Beadwork; objects of adornment made with beads by stitching them in various designs and
patterns.
Brush stroke; a mark made by moving a paint brush against a canvas or other surface.
Bust; a sculpture of a person that includes the head, neck, and chest.
Carving; a way of making sculptures and other artworks by cutting away unwanted material.
Chiaroscuro; the balance of light and shade in a painting that produces an effect of modeling.
Collage; French for sticking or gluing. Artwork made from torn or cut out materials pasted onto
a surface.
Cubism; a style of art that emphasized structure and design.
Curator; a person whose job is to look after the artefacts that are kept in museum and to arrange
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Drawing; a representation on a flat surface with a variety of tools such as pen, paintbrush, or
pencil usually with an emphasis on line.
Easel; an upright stand used by artist to hold a canvas or panel.
Eye level; the term used to express the height of the artist eye from the ground.
Fine art ; art created primarily for aesthetic reasons and has no commercial function e.g.
painting drawing sculpture and print making.
Foreshortening perspective; the height and size of an object increasing and decreasing with
distance.
Fresco; Italian for fresh. A painting on wall using pigment mixed with water applied quickly and
decisively to lime plaster ground while it is still damp so that the colours are absorbed and
remain fresh.
Grinding; rubbing away unwanted parts in a sculpture.
Collage: the picture making technique which involves cutting of bits and pieces of different
materials and pasting them on a hard-background.
Thumb method, coil method; three methods used in making works of clay
Primary and Secondary are ways in which clay is classified.
Kneading: is done to remove air bubbles from clay
Horizon; the line or point where the sky and the earth seem to meet.
Jewellery; these are objects that are worn as personal decorations such as rings, necklaces
Leather; material made from animal skins that have been preserved by a chemical process
known as tanning.
Leatherwork; method of making objects out of leather.
Linear perspective; this is a system of drawing that gives the illusion of depth on flat surface by
using perspective lines.
Literary arts; art which draws its inspiration and subject matter from literary text where there is
emphasis on the story than anything else.
Maquete; French for small model. A kind of three dimensional sculptors sketch modelled in clay
Mask; this is a three dimensional artwork that covers protects or hides the face of something.
Medium; media plural materials; a liquid added to paint in order to make it flow more easily.
Middle ground; an area in the picture between the foreground and the background and the
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Mixed media; a combination of different materials or media in an artwork e.g. with several
different media such as pencil, pastel or ink combined.
Mobile sculpture ; a sculpture in which shapes are balanced and arranged on wire arms and
suspended from ceiling to move freely ( hence mobile)
Modeling; a method of making sculptural forms in three dimensional usually with clay plaster or
wax
Montage; French for mounting the cutting and grouping together of many pictures to form a new
picture.
Paint vehicle; also known as the binder is a liquid like water, oil that the pigment is mixed with
to make paint.
Painting ; a process of applying colour to a surface using tools such as brush pallet knife, rollers
or fingers to describe form, express ideas, feelings or mood.
Palette; a thin hard wood metal or plastics on which the artist lays or mixes his or her colours.
Palette knife; a tool shaped like a knife with a flexible blade used for picking up and applying
paint on a surface.
Papier Mache; French for mashed paper. This is a method of making artworks in which paper is
torn into strips or made into pulp and mixed with glue or paste.
Performing arts; art forms which have been pre-arranged and performed in front of a live
audience such as drama, dance, music comedy and usually made for video production where
artists become participants.
Perspective drawing; the method of drawing solid objects on a flat surface that gives illusion of
depth and space.
Proportion; the relationship or ratio of one part to another or to the whole.Or the size of an
object in drawing in relation to the other.
Punching; to pierce leather with circular holes used for stitching, thronging and fastening.
Realistic drawing or painting; a drawing or painting looking exactly as it is in real life.
Related colours; colours found next to each other on the colour wheel.
Scorching; burning away unwanted parts in wood or a sculpture.
Scoring; this is a process of cutting a grove along a folded line on leather.
Scrapping; getting rid of unwanted parts in sculpture.
Secondary colours; colours made by mixing two primary colours.
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Solvent; he liquid that controls the thickness or thinness of the paint. Turpentine being the
solvent in oil paint whereas water is a solvent in water.
Split complementary; colour which consists one colour and two colours, one on each side of its
complimentary, e.g. red orange its complement is blue green.
Tertiary colours; these are colours made by mixing one primary colour and an adjacent
secondary colour.
Three dimensional; things that can be measured in three ways and usually not flat.
Tint ; a lighter tone or value of the colour made by adding white to the original colour or diluting
it to make it weaker.
Two dimensional; things that can be measured in two ways with only two sides and usually.
Vanishing point; a point where parallel lines appear to meet in perspective.
Visual arts; these are arts that produce beautiful objects to look at such as drawings paintings
sculptures crafts printmaking photography.
Warm colours; colours which gives a feeling of warmth e.g. red yellow orange.
Water colours; paint with a water soluble binder which its self becomes soluble in water.
Warp; threads that run the length of the fabric which are kept at constant tension.
Weaving; the process by which a fabric is formed by interlacing a set of vertical threads (warps)
with a set of horizontal threads (wefts) held at right angles to each other on a loom.
Weft; threads that run the width of the fabric which are manipulated to form patterns across the
width of the cloth.
Wooden donkey; a long wooden bench with a support at the front against which the easel leans.
The artist sits at the end.
Batik; A technique of dyeing fabric by protecting selected areas with wax. Hot liquid is applied
to cloth and cooled before dyeing begins.
Bisque or biscuit firing; the first kiln firing of ceramics; it changes dried clay to pottery.
Bone ash; completely burned animal bones mostly from cattle, which are then crashed to fine
powder
Bone dry; the condition of unfired clay that has not absorbed moisture other than natural
humidity.
Bone firing; the firing of clay items in an open fire with natural fuels, either in a traditional pit
with caowdung or above ground with stacked firewood
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Commercial art; artwork done for the purpose of communication and production e.g. poster
design or the creation of images for advertising.
Construction; a technique of joining together pieces of materials through welding, fitting,
nailing etc.
Drawing; a representation on a flat surface with a variety of tools such as a pen paint brush or
pencil usually with an emphasis on line.
Engobe; a coloured opaque mixture of slip a mineral compounds, used to decorate ceramics
before firing.
Grog; ground up pottery or coarse sand, added to clay to give it stiffness and strength.
Software; correction of computer programs associated with the computer.
Statue; sculpture of a person or an animal that stands on its own.
Sculpture; art of making three dimensional artworks many materials and methods can be used.
Print; image made by pressing a pattern or design onto a surface; the design may be made by
one of many methods.
Three dimensional; referring to objects that can be measured in three ways to objects that have
depth and volume v
Two types of perspective; linear perspective and overlapping.
A tint; a colour which is added to
Motif; simple design small design
Performing; is the art of expressing feelings in drama, poetry and comedy.
Ceramics; the art of using clay to make usable and decorative items.
Dot; is the starting point of a line.
Line; is a path made by a moving point dot.
Spectrum; is a band of colours carried by white light.
If you mix two primary colours you get? ; Secondary colour
Two types of texture; visual texture and temporal texture
Name the special tray artist use to mix colours; pallete
Three principles of art and design; proportion, rhythm, balance.
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REVISION QUESTIONS
1. Literary Arts are a broad group of activities: visual arts, performing arts and literary arts.
What is visual art?
A. Crafts, fine art, and design
B. Fine art, music, and drama
C. Crafts, fine art, and performing arts
D. arts, music and drama
2. An upright stand used by the artists to hold a canvas is called?
A. Canvas
B. Easel
C. Palette
D. Palette knife
3. Which of the following is not a career in art?
A. Fashion designing
B. Graphic designing
C. Sign writing
D. Hotel management
4. Which of the following are artists of fame and fortune?
A. Michelangelo and Picasso
B. Isaac Chibua and Leornard da Vinci
C. Veryan Edwards and Picasso
D. Alfred Ncube and Michelangelo
5. What are the materials used to create an art work called?
A. Medium
B. Media
C. Methods
D. Charcoal
6. What are the three categories of visual arts?
A. Crafts, music and design
B. Design, fine art and crafts
C. Crafts, fine art and culture
D. Culture, fine art and design
7. How can art be used to make people aware of the dangers of teenage pregnancy?
A. Through advertising
B. Through lettering
C. Through posters
D. Through logos
8. Which of the following is a job opportunity related to art?
A. Mechanics
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C. Architect
D. Shopkeeper
9. Who is a freelance artist?
A. A person who works on his own and can also receive commissions
B. A person who runs his own business and also works for a company
C. A person who works for a different company
D. A person who works for a graphic design company
10. Which of the following is NOT an art medium?
A. Proportion
B. Pencil
C. Water colours
D. Pastels
11. Which of the following is NOT a stage in art criticism?
A. Description
B. Analysis
C. Judgment
D. Comprehension
12. Which of the following are areas of study in art?
A. Art, crafts and painting
B. Art, crafts and design
C. Crafts, drawing and art
D. Design, sculpture and composition.
13. The understanding and enjoyment of value in an artwork is called?
A. Art appreciation
B. Art depreciation
C. Art criticism
D. Emerging issues
14. Which of the following is not an emerging issue?
A. Teenage pregnancy
B. Drug abuse
C. HIV/AIDS
D. Watching football
15. Which of the following is an effect of drug abuse?
A. You have social problems such as a family break-up
B. You become a law-abiding citizen
C. You are dependent on drugs
D. You are able to look after your family very well.
16. Which measure may be taken to control HIV/AIDS?
A. Have sex without sex a condom
B. Have unprotected sexual intercourse
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D. Come into contact with infected blood

17. What is the name for the person whose job is to look after the artefacts in a museum and
arrange them for display
A. Freelance artist
B. Illustrator
C. Museum keeper
D. Curator
18. Which of the following is NOT a common hazard found in the art studio
A. Skin hazard
B. Respiratory hazard
C. Electrical hazard
D. Cleaning hazard.
19. A preliminary rough drawing, draft, or outline is called?
A. Study
B. Sketch
C. Complete work
D. Perspective
20. Which of the following careers is NOT related to drawing?
A. Potter
B. Illustrator
C. Architect
D. Cartoonist
21. The process of making quick rough drawing to try out an idea is called?
A. Experimenting
B. Modeling
C. Study
D. Observation
22. Which of the following can be described as a portrait drawing?
A. A drawing of a group of people
B. A realistic drawing of a person
C. A drawing of pottery arranged on shelf
D. A drawing of non-living objects arranged on the table
23. Which of the following methods are NOT used in drawing
A. Lining and dotting
B. Cuffing and dragging
C. Pressing and scratching
D. Wedging and kneading
24. Which type of shading technique uses a series of fine parallel lines?
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C. Smudging
D. Linear
25. A drawing of strange animals is made without ever observing them in real life. Which
approach to drawing is this?
A. Imagination drawing
B. Experience drawing
C. Observation drawing
D. Memory drawing
26. An observation drawing that shows great awareness of structure and form is called?
A. Study
B. Perspective
C. Sketch
D. Still life
27. An artist drew a picture of how his club celebrated their sports day last year. Which
approach to drawing is this?
A. Memory drawing
B. Imagination drawing
C. Observation drawing
D. Nature drawing
28. Which of the following is not a shading technique?
A. Cross-hatching
B. Painting
C. Hatching
D. Dotting
29. Filling in an area of a drawing to make the object appear solid is called?
A. Brazing
B. Drawing
C. Shadow
D. Shading
30. A drawing which involve mental recall and recording of images of past events is called?
A. Drawing from imagination
B. Drawing from a painting
C. Drawing from observation
D. Drawing from memory
31. The outline of an object or part of an object is called?
A. Contour
B. Gesture
C. Study
D. Drawing
32. A point where parallel lines in perspective appear to meet is called
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B. Aerial perspective
C. Vanishing point
D. Two-point perspective
33. The term used to express the height of the artist’s eye from the ground is called?
A. Vanishing point
B. Radial balance
C. Eye-level
D. Balance
34. How can space and distance be achieved in painting or drawing?

A. By overlapping objects
B. By contrasting
C. By making them big
D. By making the smaller
35. The area in a picture between the foreground and the background is called?
A. Middle ground
B. Background
C. Foreground
D. Perspective
36. The part of the picture plane that appears closest to the viewer is called?
A. Middle ground
B. Foreground
C. Background
D. Further ground
37. The line where the sky and earth seem to meet is called?
A. Vanishing point
B. Horizon
C. Point of meeting
D. Point of infinity
38. The part of the picture plane that seems to be furthest from the viewer is called?
A. Foreground
B. Background
C. Middle ground
D. Horizon
39. What type of perspective is achieved in drawing when a very close object is drawn at an
exaggeratedly large size?
A. Aerial perspective
B. Foreshortening perspective
C. Scale and proportion perspective
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40. What type of perspective is achieved in a painting when distant colours and outlines
gradually fade?
A. Scale and proportion perspective
B. Aerial perspective
C. Overlapping perspective
D. Foreshortening perspective
41. An artist drew foreground objects bigger and closer to the viewer than those in the
background. What was he trying to achieve?
A. Craftsmanship
B. Composition
C. Overlapping objects
D. Perspective
42. What is also referred to as a paint vehicle?
A. Pigment
B. Solvent
C. Binder
D. Pigment and binder
43. Which of the following is NOT a colour scheme?

A. Colour triads
B. Paint vehicle
C. Analogous colours
D. Monochromatic colour
44. What is the selection of colours in a work of art called?
A. Optical colours
B. Colour wheel
C. Analogous colours
D. Colour scheme
45. Colours in the environment that people actually see and perceive are called?
A. Analogous colours
B. Optical colours
C. Arbitrary colours
D. Colour scheme
46. A group of three colours spaced at an equal distance on the colour wheel is called?
A. Warm colours
B. Cool colours
C. Colour scheme
D. Colour triad
47. What is the other name for colour?
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C. Colouring
D. Drawing
48. The liquid added to paint to make it flow more easily is called?
A. Charcoal
B. Solvent
C. Paint
D. Paste
49. The liquid to which dry pigment is added, allowing it to stick to the surface, is called?
A. Pigment
B. Binder
C. Solvent
D. Colour
50. An artist arranged the colours green and red opposite to each other. This is because the
two colours are?
A. Related
B. Neutral
C. Warm
D. Complementary
51. A prominent characteristic of an object, when light waves strike it and are reflected to
our eyes, is called?
A. Colour
B. Value
C. Tint
D. Intensity
52. Which of the following is a set of secondary colours?
A. Red, violet and green
B. Violet, green and orange
C. Yellow, orange and violet
D. Green, orange and red
53. The lightness or darkness of a colour is called
A. Intensity
B. Value
C. Hue
D. Chroma
54. A large painting on a wall, attached to the surface of the wall, is called?
A. Illustrations
B. Landscape
C. Mural
D. Photograph
55. A coloured powder that gives paint its colour is called?
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B. Solvent
C. Binder
D. Pigment
56. What kind of colour is obtained when two primary colours are mixed together?
A. Complementary colour
B. Tertiary colour
C. Secondary colour
D. Primary colour
57. Which of the following is a career related to painting?
A. Blacksmith
B. Interior decorator
C. Sculptor
D. Basketry
58. Which set of colours below consists of primary colours?
A. Blue, white and black
B. Orange, red and violet
C. Red, blue and yellow
D. Yellow, green and blue
59. Watercolours and oil paints depend on which substance for their hue?
A. Egg yolk
B. Pigment
C. Medium
D. Vehicle
60. Adding white to a colour creates which effect?
A. Adds brightness to the colour
B. Adds tint to the colour
C. Intensifies the colour
D. Neutralizes the colour
61. The art or craft of making baskets is called?
A. Montage
B. Mosaic
C. Basketry
D. Jewellery
62. Serigraphy is a method of printing also known as?
A. Stencil printing
B. Lithography
C. Screen printing
D. Intaglio printing
63. The printing method based on the fact that water and oil never mix is called?
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B. Screen printing
C. Stenciling
D. Lithography
64. The designing and planning of the text and artwork for books and magazines is called?
A. Logo design
B. Graphic design
C. Illustration
D. Book cover design
65. The process of planning, organizing and arranging the elements in a work of art is
called?
A. Designing
B. Illustrating
C. Drawing
D. Constructing
66. Designs that have dimensions of length and width and occupy a flat surface are called?
A. Four dimensional
B. Two dimensional
C. Three dimensional
D. One dimensional
67. The use of a computer as a tool for designing is known as
A. Computer aided design
B. Computer school of design
C. Computer studies
D. Graphics
68. Which one of the following is not kind of illustration?

A. Comic stories
B. Picture stories
C. Cartoons
D. Cracking
69. In the design process, what is the purpose of (i) sketching and (ii) refining?
A. To test a variety of ideas to complete the details
B. To produce a design; to evaluate the design process
C. To choose the best idea to look for more information
D. To identify the problem to review the finished work
70. Which design step means, to look for additional information in developing different
ideas?
A. Sketching
B. Selecting
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D. Producing
71. Brainstorming with a variety of ideas before choosing the best one is called?
A. Selecting
B. Refining
C. Researching
D. Sketching
72. Which printing process requires a squeegee?
A. Relief printing
B. Intaglio printing
C. Lithography
D. Screen printing
73. Which of the following is not a basic technique used in printing?
A. Surface Process
B. Drawing process
C. Stencil process
D. Relief process
74. Wax, dye and old newspapers are materials for which technique?
A. Batik
B. Montage
C. Tie and dye
D. Collage
75. In batik, which tool is used to apply wax to fabric?
A. Waxing tool
B. Tainting tool
C. Drawing
D. Carving
76. What is the technique of dyeing in which selected areas are protected with wax
A. Batik
B. Mosaic
C. Tie and dye
D. Collage
77. Which term refers to an artist who designs logos?
A. Building designer
B. Graphic 8designer
C. Pattern designer
D. Fashion designer
78. A visual symbol for a company, business or club is called?
A. Logo
B. Emblem
C. Slogan
D. Layout

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79. What is the function of a logo?

A. To identify a company, institution or product
B. To convey a deep symbolic meaning
C. To act as a plan for a full size sculpture
D. To indicate the quality of products and services
80. The designing of patterns and images for printed fabrics is called
A. Mural designing
B. Fabric designing
C. Batik designing
D. Graphic designing
81. What is a large painting that is permanently attached to a wall?
A. Canvas
B. Found object
C. Low relief sculpture
D. Mural
82. Why is the fabric washed before making batik?
A. To remove grease or starch
B. To make the fabric clean
C. To make the fabric shrink
D. To make the fabric holes small
83. How can wax be removed from a fabric
A. By melting it in hot water
B. By exposing it to the sun
C. By rising the cloth in cold water
D. By exposing it to wind
84. Which of the following materials cannot be used for making sculptures?
A. Bronze
B. Clay
C. Wood
D. Stencil
85. Which of the following is man-made material used in sculpting?
A. Bronze
B. Stone
C. Wood
D. Bone
86. Which sculpting method requires the use of mallet, chisel and saw?
A. Modelling
B. Welding
C. Carving
D. Casting
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A. Line
B. Unity
C. Rhythm
D. Proportion
88. The following are the principles of art and design expect one
A. Line
B. Unity
C. Rhythm
D. Proportion
89. What is a shape?

A. An outward appearance of an object defined by lines
B. It has weight and occupied line
C. It is a curved line
D. It is a circle
90. A……………………………….. Pencil is used when shading.

A. HB pencil
B. B pencil
C. H pencil
D. D pencil
91. What colour do you get when you mix yellow and blue?
A. Blue
B. Orange
C. Green
D. Violet
92. What is texture?

A. A feeling of a surface
B. Hardness of an object
C. Smoothness of a surface
D. Roughness of a crocodile skin
93.…………………………………… is a practice of painting in one colour only.

A. Value
B. Monochromatic
C. Hue
D. Space

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94. The study of different types or styles of writing is called?

A. Typography
B. Gothic
C. Roman
D. Script
95. What is calligraphy?

A. The study of beautiful writing.
B. The study of drawing
C. The study of lettering
D. The study of designing
96. What is a spectrum?

A. Light
B. A band of colours
C. Colour wheel
D. A glass prism
97. Which of the following is a primary colour

A. Violet
B. Pink
C. Red
D. Black
98. What are the three properties of colour?

A. Hue, value and intensity
B. Shape, value and tone
C. Space, value and hue
D. Value hue and shape
99. A mixture of blue and red forms a colour known as?

A. Pink
B. Orange
C. Violet
D. Green
100. The use of imagination and skill to make beautiful things is called?
A. Shape
B. Art
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D. Rhythm
101. Which of the following is not an element of art?

A. Harmony
B. Space
C. Line
D. Colure
102. Name the colour opposite to orange

A. Green
B. Red
C. Blue
D. Violet
103. The other name for slip is…………………….

A. Slop
B. Glue
C. Liquid
D. ignoble
104. Originally, Terracotta means
A. Bone ash mixed with freshly prepared clay
B. Grog
C. Biscuit stage
D. Bone ash that is soaked in water and mixed with clay
105. ………………………… is used as shock absorber in …………………
A. Grog; leather hard
B. Grog; ceramics
C. Grog; pottery
D. Clay; works
106. Why is kaolin a preferred material for initiation ceremonies?
A. Because of its neutrality
B. Because of its purity
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D. Because of its goodness

107. The best time to join pieces of clay articles together is at……………..
A. Green ware
B. Bone hard
C. Forming
D. Leather hard
108. Which of the following gives the correct description of primary clay?
A. Special kind of earth with plasticity, low porosity, fine particles, white in appearance
B. Plasticity, fine particles, found away from parent rock, white in colour.
C. Fine particles, less plasticity, found near parent rock, dark in colour
D. No impurities less plasticity found near parent, dark in colour
109. The standard formula for paint media……………….
A. Pigment+ paint
B. Pigment +Binder
C. Paint+ gloss enamel
D. Pigment + gouache
110. Why are ceramic wares sometimes glazed?
A. To make them porous to liquids
B. To make them durable, beautiful and non-porous to liquids
C. To make them unbreakable
D. To make them heavier and more expensive
111. What is the fusing agent in glaze that helps it to melt?

A. Glass
B. Flux
C. Alumina
D. Silica
112. A glaze is composed of three main ingredients. Which of the following is not a component
of a glaze?
A. Slip
B. Alumina
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D. Flux
113. Ground-up pottery added to clay to give it stiffness is called?

A. Slip
B. Alumina
C. Grog
D. Matte
114. Why is it necessary to add flux to glazes?

A. To bind the glaze to the clay
B. To stop the glaze from running
C. To protect the bottom of the kiln
D. To lower the glaze’s firing temperature
115. In a glaze, what is the role of silica?

A. To lower the glaze temperature
B. To make the glaze strong and acid-proof
C. To bind the glaze together
D. To become glass when the glaze is fired
116. Where did pottery making start in Africa?

A. Along the rivers
B. In the mountains
C. In the forests
D. In the deserts
117. The art of making objects from clay and later firing them in a kiln is called?
A. Ceramics
B. Glazing
C. Throwing
D. Blacksmith
118. Clay in its liquid form is called?

A. Porosity
B. Engobe
C. Plasticity
D. Slip
119. which of the following is an art related to ceramics?

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B. Pottery making
C. Basketry
D. Tie-and-dye work
120. Which technique is used to decorate clay pots and to make them non-porous and durable?
A. Slaking
B. Glazing
C. Polishing
D. Burnishing
121. The first firing, which converts clay to pottery, is called?

A. Bisque firing
B. Glost firing
C. Glaze firing
D. Decorative firing
122. A person who makes clay wares is called?

A. Dentist
B. Sculptor
C. Ceramist
D. Blacksmith
123. Which of the following are the components of a glaze?

A. Alumina, silica and bone ash
B. Slip, flux and alumina
C. Silica, flux and alumina
D. Flux, silica and grog
124. In Zambia, which centre offers training in pottery and ceramics?

A. Mindolo
B. Mufulira
C. Chipata
D. Kabwe
125. Which of the following is not a technique used in pottery making?

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C. Ball
D. Slab
126. A skeleton supports a human being. What supports a sculpture?

A. Armature
B. Bones
C. Binder
D. Solvent
127. A sculpture that stands on its own is called?
A. Relief sculpture
B. Free-standing sculpture
C. Additive sculpture
D. Subtractive sculpture
128. A three-dimensional sculpture’s sketch, modelled in clay as a trial run, is called?
A. Armature
B. Marquette
C. Carving
D. Bust
129. Which of these natural materials can be used for making sculptures?
A. Soapstone and concrete
B. Clay and plaster of Paris
C. Stone and concrete
D. Wood and marble
130. A framework made of wire and used to support papier mache or clay sculpture is called?
A. Bust
B. Model
C. Statue
D. Armature
131. In Art terms, what is a bust?
A. A figure sculpture
B. A sculpture that shows action
C. A framework made of wire
D. A sculpture of a person’s head that includes the neck and chest
132. The process of making a sculpture by cutting or chipping away unwanted material is called?
A. Modelling
B. Carving
C. Construction
D. Assembling
133. Which methods are used when an artist makes a sculpture using both wood and plaster?
A. Carving and assembling
B. Additive and construction
C. Construction and subtractive
D. Subtractive and additive
134. …………………………… art is the type of art that involves drawing and painting.

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A. Pictorial
B. Painting
C. Design
D. Fine
135. A …………………… is a product of the process of critical thinking and analysis.

A. shape
B. form
C. design
D. surface
136. …………………………. is the systematic grading of tones from darkest to lightest.
A. tonal light
B. tonal gradation
C. gradation
D. tones
137. The art of making non-usable but decorative and symbolic items or materials like clay,
cement, woods, scrap metal, stone, plaster and pairs is?
A. Ceramics
B. Crafts
C. Sculpture
D. Artificial
138. Which of the following is NOT a natural material used to make sculptures?
A. Wood
B. Bronze
C. Clay
D. Marble
139. The method in which an artwork is made by removing materials from a block is called?
A. Reduction method
B. Subtractive method
C. Additive method
D. Construction
140. A sculpture in which areas project slightly from a flat surface is called?
A. Low and high relief
B. High relief
C. Slightly lower
D. Low relief
141. The process of making sculptural forms in three-dimensions with clay or wax is called?
A. Modelling
B. Assembling
C. Casting
D. Carving

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142. Threads that run the length of the fabric and are kept at constant tension during weaving are
called?
A. Wefts
B. Warps
C. Yarn
D. Stitchery
143. The frame used for weaving fibres to make a cloth is called?
A. Weaving
B. Loom
C. Dye
D. Papier mache
144. The art of making fabric by interlacing two sets of parallel threads, held at right angles to
each other, is called?
A. Yarn
B. Stitchery
C. Appliqué
D. Weaving
145. The threads that run the width of fabric are called?
A. Yarn
B. Wefts
C. Warps
D. Weaving
146. The kind of artwork produced when pieces of cloth are sewn onto a larger cloth is called?
A. Stitchery
B. Tapestry
C. Appliqué
D. Macramé
147. The craftwork made by stitching yarn, thread, string or other materials to decorate a fabric
is called?
A. Appliqué
B. Stitchery
C. Weaving
D. Loom
148. The process by which small pieces of fabric are sewn together onto a larger piece of fabric
is called?
A. Weaving
B. Stitchery
C. Macramé
D. Appliqué

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149. What is the difference between warps and wefts in weaving?

A. Warps run the length of a fabric and wefts the width of the fabric
B. Warps run the width of a fabric and wefts run the length of the fabric
C. Warps are white while wefts are black
D. Warps are extended while wefts remain the same
150. Material from an animal skin that has been preserved by tanning is called?
A. Tanning
B. Processing
C. Raw hide
D. Leather
151. An artwork in which flat shapes of various materials have been glued to a surface is called?
A. Relief
B. Marquette
C. Collage
D. Mobile
152. The artwork in which small pieces of glass, stone, pottery or eggshell are laid on a flat
surface to create an image is called?
A. Marbling
B. Mosaic
C. Montage
D. Collage
153. which of the following is a craft related to weaving?
A. Pottery
B. Basketry
C. Blacksmithing
D. Tie and dye
154. The craft of making items from paper leather is called?
A. Basketry
B. Blacksmithing
C. Leatherwork
D. Appliqué
155. Which technique uses the cutting and grouping of pictures to form a new picture?
A. Photomontage
B. Collage
C. Mosaic
D. Tie and dye
156. What factor has most influenced craftwork in recent years?
A. Non-availability of traditional materials
B. Greater emphasis on functional as opposed to decorative crafts
C. Industrial and technical developments
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157. The art or craft of using a loom to combine threads into cloth is called?
A. Weaving
B. Sewing
C. Basketry
D. Pottery
158. Which of the following is NOT a type of ornament?
A. Beadwork
B. Bone jewellery
C. Basketry
D. Metal jewellery
159. Variation of lightness and darkness between the extremes of black and white is
called……….
A. Tint
B. Texture
C. Mural
D. Tone
160. What materials dose one use to make a papier mache?

A. Soil and glue
B. Glue and paper
C. Wood and glue
D. Glue and ropes
161. Which of the following distinguishes a logo from an emblem?

A. A motto
B. Curving
C. Lettering
D. Angles
162. Define the term ‘craft

A. A Skillful way of making something by using hands.
B. It is painting made by using water colour.
C. A skillful way of making traditional mats.
D. All works of arts done by artists
163. Still life drawing is drawing…

A. From a living person.
B. Of a landscape.
C. Of a portrait.
D. Of non-living things arranged in a particular order.

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164. A two- way picture view is an example of……….

A. Montage
B. Collage
C. Mosaic
D. Sculpture
165. Which of the following is not a set of art elements?

A. line, shape, space
B. texture, colour, value
C. shape, form, colour
D. space, scale, line
166. A person responsible for the documentation, preservation, and display of collection of art in
a gallery and museum is called a/ an ………
A. sculptor
B. designer
C. curator
D. author
167. A sculpture which is made by combining many different objects is called………..

A. assemblage
B. collage
C. relief sculpture
D. mounting
168. What do you understand by the term shape.

A. One dimension area that is not defined
B. Two dimension area that is defined
C. three dimension area that is not defined
D. four dimension area that is defined.
169. A …….. Is a single unit of a pattern.

A. Model
B. Motif
C. Band
D. Design
170. An art work in which the artist glues bits of cut or tone paper, photographs, fabric or other
materials to a flat surface is called……………………
A. Collage

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B. Mosaic
C. Medium
D. Hatching
171.Computer aided billboards are an example of ………………….art.

A. Commercial
B. Fine
C. Company
D. Line
172. ……………. Drawing is the arrangement of non-living objects on a low table for purposes
of drawing.
A. Nature
B. Perspective
C. Lifeless
D. Still life
173. A class of art and design wanted to display their art works for the public to see. Mention a
special name given to such public displays of art work.
A. fashion
B. function
C. elevation
D. exhibition
174. Explain how a pattern can be made. By……………. A shape

A. colouring
B. drawing
C. painting
D. repeating
175. A drawing or painting looking as real life is an example of …………….art.

A. abstract
B. realistic
C. non-object
D. cubism
176. During a class of art and design, the teacher of art sent the class monitor to collect the
primary colours from his storeroom so as to use in his lesson. The class monitor was not sure of
the colours to pick. Mention the three primary colours which he should have picked.
A. Orange, blue, red

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B. Green, yellow, blue

C. Violet, yellow, red
D. Yellow, blue, red
177. Compare the shading in the two(2) drawings below. Identify the method of shading used in
the diagram (1)
A. Smudging
B. Cross hatching
C. Hatching
D. stippling
178. ……………..is a good example of a method of making sculpture using a

substractiveprocess.
A. Carving
B. Modelling
C. Welding
D. construction
179. In the past, what were the main uses of African masks?
A. For pleasure, harvest and disguising
B. For harvest, celebration and ritual
C. For dance, initial ceremonies and ritual
D. For ploughing, harvest and dance
180. Objects used to decorate the body are called?

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A. Ornaments
B. Accessories
C. Pendants
D. Jewellery
ONE WORD ANSWER

1. Name of a special tray in which artist mix colour………………………………………
2. An area enclosed by a line………………………………………………………………..
3. The arrangement of light and shadow to form pictures………………………………………
4. The arrangement of elements in a work of art……………………………………………….
5. The study and appreciation of beauty…………………………………………………………
6. A place for displaying or selling works of art………………………………………………
7. Picture writing used by ancient Egyptians………………………………………………
8. Fired clay, also known as bisque or biscuit…………………………………………………
9. A liquid, like water or oil, that pigments are mixed with to make paint………………………
10. The use of skill to produce beautiful objects…………………………………………………
11. Any material used to produce an art object……………………………………….………
12. Pigments held together with wax moulded into sticks…………………………………...…
13. Having two sides which are the same in size and shape…………………………………...…
14. Canvas, board or any surface for working the work of an art on……………………...……
15. A large painting or art work, designed on or for the wall or ceiling of building……………
16. The production of beautiful handwriting…………………………………………………
17. Making meaningless scribbles that are outlined and colored to make meaning shapes…….....
18. A method of painting by applying pigment to moist plaster……………………………….…
19. A picture or pattern made by scratching through different coloured layers………..................
20. Paint made by mixing pigment with egg yolk and water…………………………………
21. Side view of a face…………………………………………………………………………
22. Sculpture that has moving parts generated by air, gravity or electricity…………………
23. A canvas or paper surface coated with white in preparation for a painting………………......
24. Modelling using mashed or pieces of paper soaked with glue……………………………...
25. Dullness or brightness of colour…………………………………………………………
26. Repetition of any element of art……………………………………………………………

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27. Shaping hot liquid metal or slip clay by pouring it into the mould……………..………
28. Art today………………………………………………………………………….
29. The type of shading where lines crisscross each other……………………………………..
30. Name one colour that is both a tint and a shade at the same time…………………………
31. A raised design, pattern or lettering………………………………………………………
32. Any art inspired or influenced by ancient Greek or Roman art……………………………
33. A mixture of Red and Black forms a colour known as…………………………………
34. The opposite of blue is…………………………………………………………………
35. Adding white to any colour is known as…………………………………………………
36. A mixture of Green and Blue forms a colour known as…………………………………
37. The three properties of colour are value, intensity and……………………………………
38. The only tertiary colour on the rainbow is…………………………………………
39. Underline a warm secondary colour, red, orange, yellow, blue, and green.
40. Pink is a mixture of white and……………………………………………………………
41. Underline the colour that would appear closer to the viewer, red, blue, green, violet
42. Name the type of perspective where colour fades with distance increases…..…..………
43. Converging parallel lines as distance increases…………………………………………
44. Mention the type of perspective in which some objects are partially hidden in order to create
distance into the picture…………………………………………………………
45. State two careers in sculpture……………………………..……………………………
46. State three (3) careers in painting………………………………….……………………
47. Mention three (3) properties of clay………………………………………………………
48. Mention two sources of clay……………………..………………………………………
49. Mention two types of commercial clay…………………………………………………
50. Mention two types of clay………………………………………………………………
51. State two careers in ceramics……………………………………………………………
52. Mention three (3) types of paints…………………………………….,……………………
53. What do you call the type of printing in which the printing areas are raised above base…
54. Large notices or pictures on metal surfaces for advertisement are called…………………
55. The term used to mean beauty in art is known as…………………………………………
56. What is the term used for a public place where display of Art works is done?....................

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57. Define the term collage in Art and Design…………………………………........................

58. Who painted the famous portrait of Mona-Lisa……………………….
59. Who painted the picture of the Last-Supper………………………………………………
60. What do you understand by the term ‘Positive stencil’? .....................................................
61. What style of Art was Cubism? .........................................................................................
62. What is Monochromatic painting? …………………………………………………
63. ………….is the technique of shading in which a series of fine parallel lines are drawn at
about 45 degrees to the outline in order to fill an area or surface.
64. …………is the shading type that uses dots.
65. Mention the colouring matter in paint ………………………………
66. What is the other name for a Binder………………………………………………
67. What is a statue in sculpture? .........................................................................................
68. What is a Model? …………………………………………………
69. Give two major examples of performing arts………………………………
70. What are elements of art? .......................................................................................
71. Give two examples of complimentary colours? ...........................................................
72. Define a sketch in drawing…………………………………………….
73. Give an example of a tertiary colour.
74. Define linear perspective………………………………….
75. What do call an artist’s personal way of expressing ideas in work of art?...................
76. What is pre-historic art?..................................................................
77. Mention the material used as a resistance to the dye in the process of making tie and dye ….
78. A special image representing a business or company is known as…………………..
79. If a clay pot allows water to pass through its walls then the pot is said to be………..
80. What is collage?..........................................................................
81. There are three natural colours. State any two…………………………………….
82. Give one reason why form is important in an art…………………………………..
83. Describe warm colours and give two examples…………………………………….
84. An internal frame used by sculptors as a skeleton on which to model clay or wax is known
as……………………………….

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85. The process of transferring an inked image from one prepared surface to another is known
as……………………………………….
86. There are five basic lines. Name any two…………………………………
87. Mention any two famous artists you know in Zambia…………………….
88. What is the difference between actual and visual texture?........................................
89. List two ways in which the use of a computer can enhance design process for a graphic
artist……………………………………………………………………..
90. A method in which the artwork is made by removing materials from a block such as wax,
wood, stone, until in the desired shape is achieved is referred to as………….
91. Who is a free artist?.........................................................................................
92. A shading technique using two or more lines criss-cross is called……………………
93. Mention any two types of mosaic………………………………………………………
94. Mention any two famous artist s you know in the world…………………………….
95. A sculpture of a person’s head that include the neck and the chest is known as……….
95.Mention any two movements in art……………………………………………..
96.Any tray or plate where paints are mixed before use is called……………………
97. Define papier mache in art and design…………………………………………
98. Give one reason as to why proportion is important in an artwork……………………
99. What method is used when serving pieces of cloth onto a larger cloth to make a
design……………………………………………………………….
100. Define weaving……………………………………………………………………..
101. Mention the first known form of drawing in history…………………………………..
102. What do you understand by the term basketry?..............................................................
103.Explain what you understand by the term mixed media in art?.......................................
104.Why do we use wax when making batik?........................................................................
105.Make a distinction between sill life drawing and drawing from imagination………….
106.Paints used in art are made up of three(3) basic ingredients. List any two (2) of these
ingredients…………………………………………………………………………………
107. Define the term contemporary art……………………………………………………
108. What is contemporary Art?...........................................................................................

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109……………….. is believed to be the first artist of the Italian renaissance

110. In which year did Leonardo da vinci die…………………………
111. The name of the movement ‘ impressionism’ was derived or came from one of claud
Monet’s printing. What was the little of the painting?..............................................................
112. From the time he was young (Leonardo da Vinci was believed to have special powers. He
wrote……………………..note books by the time he died.
113. Describe the characteristics of Gothic Art…………………………………………………….
114. State the masters of Gothic art………………………………………………………………...
115. Describe the history of Renaissance Art ……………………………………………………...
116. State the significance of Renaissance Art……………………………………………………
117. List the masters of Renaissance Art …………………………………………………………..
118. Differentiate Gothic and Renaissance Art…………………………………………………….
ANSWERS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A 30. D 59. B 88. A 117. A 146. C

2. B 31. A 60. B 89. A 118. D 147. B
3. D 32. C 61. C 90. B 119. B 148. D

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4. A 33. C 62. C 91. C 120. B 149. A

5. B 34. A 63. D 92. A 121. A 150. D
6. B 35. A 64. B 93. B 122. C 151. C
7. C 36. B 65. A 94. A 123. C 152. B
8. C 37. B 66. B 95. A 124. A 153. B
9. A 38. B 67. A 96. B 125. B 154. C
10. A 39. B 68. D 97. C 126. A 155. A
11. D 40. B 69. A 98. A 127. B 156. B
12. B 41. D 70. C 99. C 128. B 157. A
13. A 42. C 71. D 100. B 129. D 158. C
14. D 43. B 72. D 101. A 130. D 159. C
15. C 44. D 73. B 102. C 131. D 160. A
16. C 45. B 74. A 103. D 132. B
17. D 46. D 75. B 104. C 133. D
18. D 47. A 76. A 105. C 134. D
19. B 48. B 77. B 106. B 135. C
20. A 49. B 78. A 107. D 136. B
21. C 50. D 79. A 108. D 137. C
22. B 51. A 80. B 109. B 138. B
23. D 52. B 81. D 110. B 139. B
24. D 53. B 82. A 111. B 140. D
25. A 54. C 83. A 112. A 141. A
26. A 55. D 84. D 113. C 142. B
27. A 56. C 85. A 114. D 143. B
28. B 57. B 86. C 115. D 144. D
29. D 58. C 87. A 116. A 145. B
SHORT ANSWERS
1. Palette tray
2. Shape
3. Chiaroscuro
4. Design

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5. Aesthetics
6. Gallery
7. Hieroglyphics
8. Terracotta
9. Binder
10. Art
11. Media
12. Crayon
13. Symmetric
14. Support
15. Mural
16. Calligraphy
17. Doodling
18. Fresco
19. Scratch drawing
20. Tempera
21. Profile
22. Kinetic
23. Ground
24. Papier Mache/ Paper Mash
25. Intensity
26. Pattern
27. Slip Casting
28. Contemporary art
29. Cross hatching
30. Grey
31. Emboss
32. Classical
33. Maroon 65. Stippling
34. Orange 66. Pigment
35. Tint 67. Paint vehicle

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36. Blue green 68. Is a figure / object made in clay or wax to be reproduced in another durable
material
37. Hue 69. A person who poses for visual artists in human figure drawing in a
work of art.
38. Indigo 70. Music, Drama, Poetry
39. Red, Orange 71. These are basic ideas used by an artist to build up a work of art.
40. Red 72. Red and Green, Blue and Orange, Yellow and Purple
41. Red
42. Aerial/atmosphere perspective
43. Perspective
44. Overlapping perspective
45. Teacher/instructor, sculptor, metal work designer, environment sculptors
46. Teacher/instructor, illustrator, architect, animator, freelance painter, cartoonist.
47. Plasticity, porosity, strength
48. Anthills, river banks, swampy areas, excavation sites
49. Kaolin, ball clay, fire clay, porcelain, stoneware
50. Primary and Secondary clay
51. Slab method, coil method, pinch method, throwing
52. Teacher/instructor , potter, ceramist
53. Water paint, oil paint, acrylic paint, powdered paint
54. Relief printing
55. Posters
56. Aesthetics
57. Gallery
58. French word meaning sticking or gluing torn or cut-out materials onto a surface.
59. Leonardo da Vinci
60. Leonardo da Vinci
61. Is the stencil that is removed from the stencil plate and is also called a template.
62. It is a style of art that gave weight to structure and design.
63. It is a type of painting using tints and shades of one colour.
64. Hatching

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MINISTRY OF GENERAL EDUCATION

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INTRODUCTION TO ART AND DESIGN

THE IMPORTANCE OF ART

THE FUNCTIONS OF ART

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ELEMENTS OF ART AND DESIGN

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Other Types of Lines

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Symmetrical Radial Asymmetrical

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HISTORY OF ZAMBIAN ART

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Art from Independence up to date

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PROMINENT ZAMBIAN VISUAL ARTISTS

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Technique Art Styles Used by Henry Tayali

Other Great Zambian Artists

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AFRICAN ART HISTORY

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Functions of African Art

ii). Decorative motive

iii). Utilitarian motive

 Baskets are used as containers

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Collecting Sculptural Materials from the Environment

Effects of Collecting Sculpture Materials from the Environment

 Discovery of other materials

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Tools and Materials Used in Sculpture

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NB: Relief is an Italian word meaning “to raise”.

Methods and Techniques in Sculpture Making

Techniques used for Different Types of Sculptures

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Two Point Perspective

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Below the Horizon Line