GCSE Art and Design: Themes within Textiles flashcards

Question 1

In a portrait artwork, what is the subject?

Accepted Answer

The person shown in the portrait: the focus of the artwork.

Question 2

In an artwork, what is narrative?

Accepted Answer

The story or message the artwork communicates about its subject.

Question 3

What is symbolism in an artwork?

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Using objects, colours or imagery to suggest deeper meanings.

Question 4

What do artists use textiles to celebrate in portraits and figures?

Accepted Answer

Diverse identities, culture and history.

Question 5

By using textile methods in portraits, artists blend tradition with what?

Accepted Answer

Contemporary practice.

Question 6

Give one textile method artists use to add depth and narrative to portraits and figures.

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e.g. layering, stitching or embellishing.

Question 7

Is a portrait mainly about capturing someone's likeness?

Accepted Answer

No. Portraits can reveal who someone is, exploring culture, identity, relationships, life experiences and social or political themes.

Question 8

In an artwork, what is an object?

Accepted Answer

A thing that can be seen or touched, often used to represent an idea, meaning or story.

Question 9

In an artwork, what is composition?

Accepted Answer

The arrangement of its elements.

Question 10

What does 'signify' mean?

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To show, mean or represent something.

Question 11

Give one technique that fabric's flexibility allows.

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e.g. weaving, dyeing or quilting.

Question 12

Using traditional objects in textile art connects artists to what?

Accepted Answer

Their heritage, preserving and celebrating cultural history.

Question 13

Besides being the subject of an artwork, how else can an object be used in textile art?

Accepted Answer

As an art material.

Question 14

What are natural forms? Give an example.

Accepted Answer

Shapes, patterns and structures found in the natural world, e.g. shells, plants or bones.

Question 15

What is asymmetry?

Accepted Answer

A lack of symmetry: two sides are not identical but are still visually balanced.

Question 16

In art, what is a pattern?

Accepted Answer

A repeated design or sequence of shapes, colours or lines.

Question 17

Natural forms in textiles can express what, deepening the viewer's connection to the work?

Accepted Answer

Emotion or memory.

Question 18

Are natural forms always perfectly symmetrical?

Accepted Answer

No. Some show symmetry, but most have irregular, flowing shapes, and even symmetrical forms often vary.

Question 19

In textile art, what is a landscape?

Accepted Answer

A view of natural scenery, often used as inspiration.

Question 20

In textile art, what is perspective?

Accepted Answer

A technique to show depth and distance using scale or spatial arrangement.

Question 21

In textiles, what is layering?

Accepted Answer

Building up a surface with fabric, stitch or embellishment.

Question 22

Give one thing textiles can explore when they reflect cultural ties to a place.

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e.g. history, tradition, or people's links to the land.

Question 23

Why do many textile artists use eco materials and methods in landscape work?

Accepted Answer

To highlight the need to protect landscapes and to work sustainably.

Question 24

Give one powerful idea a landscape artwork can express.

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e.g. climate change, migration, culture or identity.

Question 25

What is a silhouette?

Accepted Answer

A dark shape or outline against a lighter background, showing only the outline with no internal detail.

Question 26

In an artwork, what is contrast?

Accepted Answer

The difference between elements, like light and dark or rough and smooth, that makes parts of the artwork stand out.

Question 27

Give one thing light is often used for in art.

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e.g. creating contrast, highlighting textures or setting moods.

Question 28

What do artists use shadows, highlights and tone in textiles to do?

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To shape form, suggest depth and direct focus.

Question 29

Give one thing silhouette defines in textiles.

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e.g. shape, structure, or how a garment or piece interacts with light and contrast.

Question 30

In art, what is space?

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The area around, between and within objects; it can be physical, like a room, or visual.

Question 31

In art, what is a barrier?

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Something that blocks, separates or divides spaces, people or ideas.

Question 32

In art, what is a threshold?

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A point of transition between two spaces.

Question 33

What does 'liminal' mean?

Accepted Answer

In between: describing a space, time or feeling on the threshold between two things.

Question 34

Besides indoors and outdoors, give one thing 'inside and outside' can mean in art.

Accepted Answer

e.g. emotional states, identity, or private versus public.

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