The candidates explained all the prescribed art terms very well except
planography.
(a) Abstract art: a form of art which relies upon non-natural shapes, purely non-representational. The effect may be obtained by using geometrical forms, lines jumbled together, and different patches of colour to produce a piece; distortion simplification and re¬arrangement of object or elements of forms to express an artist's feeling.
(b) Terra-Cotta: A ceramic and sculptural term, meaning baked or fired clay. Example, unglazed pottery and sculpture; porous and fragile earth ware; low fired reddish or brownish clay.
(c) Harmony: Pleasant arrangement of related colour or other elements of design in composition.
- An achievement obtained by repetition of similar characters which creates pleasing interactions
- pleasing or congment arrangement of parts.
(d) Value: The lightness in Et colour; it is the variation in a colour from light to dark, the closer a colour is, white, the lighter the value and the closer to black, the lower the value.
(e) Planography: This is a process in graphics or textiles whereby prints are reproduced from drawing or images created with greasy ink upon limestone or aluminium surfaces. Example: Lithography and offset.
