A silverpoint drawing is used by dragging a silver rod or wire across a surface. This wire is usually called as a primer or gesso. It was used since the late Gothic/early Renaissance era.
Advantage: Renaissance artists used silver and occasionally lead point for preparatory sketches under their paintings and frescoes as well as for studies on paper.
Disadvantage: It is an unforgiving media because silverpoint lines are very difficult to erase, so fixing mistakes is not an easy task.
<span>Installation art is a type of artwork that conceives of a space and everything in it. It is three-dimensional, and is created and designed to challenge one's perspective and perception of space.</span>
<span>Overlapping is when one part of a shape or form is placed in front of another, Foreshortening is a technique that make a form appear to move back in space. In Mantegna’s piece, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, he used overlapping to provide the depth to the room, and to show the image of Christ on top of the bed. By using foreshortening, the artist was able to make the body of Christ lay horizontal, and therefore receding into the background. This technique also allowed the other figures on the left to be positioned specifically by his waist, while his chest and head appear behind the figures. Mantegna created great depth using these techniques.</span>
Jazz is important to America because it is the closest thing to a home-grown music style. Jazz can <span>relate with themes of slavery, colonialism, segregation and more. It comes with a delivery that alternates between singing and spoken word in an straightforward and eloquent manner.</span>
