2025 WAEC VISUAL ART: 2025 WAEC Visual Art Midnight Essay and OBJ Questions and Answers (4057)

(1a)

Collage is a technique of composing a work of art by pasting or glueing on a flat surface various materials not normally associated with one another such as paper, cloth, wood, photographs, fabric and other ephemera.

(1b)

Basketry is the art and craft of  weaving or sewing pliable materials or making interwoven objects or  three-dimensional artifacts, usually containers, from flexible vegetable fibres, such as twigs, grasses, osiers, bamboo, and rushes, or from plastic or other synthetic materials

(1c)

Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. It is one of the oldest and most widespread of the decorative arts. The objects made are commonly useful ones, such as vessels for holding liquids or plates or bowls from which food can be 'copied from e x p o c o d e . n e t free' served.

(1d)

 Printing is an artistic process based on the principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric. It can be used to make one or more identical images or to create repeating patterns on papers and textiles.

(1e)

Dyeing is the application of dyes or pigments on textile materials such as fibers, yarns, and fabrics with the goal of achieving color with desired color fastness.

(2a)

Papier mâché is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.

(2b)

The use of paper pulp obtained by soaking of paper

to which adhesive or starch is then added.

(2c)

(i) Soak some torn up newspaper in water overnight.

(ii) Drain and boil some clean water for about 30 minutes

until the fibres start to break up.

(iii) Sieve the pulp and throw away the water.

(iv) Beat or whisk the pulp to break up the fibres.

(v) Mix the adhesive or starch into the pulp until it forms a clay-like substance.

(vi) Start modelling.

(3a)

(i) Warp: This is the set of yarns or other things stretched in place on a loom before the weft is introduced during the weaving process.

(ii) Weft:  These are the horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.

(iii) Clothes: These are made of fabrics or textiles, worn to cover the body such as shirts and pants.

(iv) Fabric: This is cloth or other material produced by weaving together cotton, nylon, wool, silk, or other threads.

(v) Textile: This is any filament, fibre, or yarn that can be made into fabric or cloth, and the resulting material itself.

(3b)

(i)  Cut fabric and draw

(ii) Apply the first layer of wax

(iii) Add the dye and  apply the second layer of wax

(iv) Complete the crackle effect

(v) Remove wax

(6a)

(i) Clay

(ii) Bronze

(iii) Brass 

(6b)

(i) Bronze Head

(ii) Terra Cotta

(6c)

[PICK ANY FIVE]

(i) They are mainly done in terra-cotta and bronze.

(ii) They are highly naturalistic.

(iii) They have profuse scarification.

(iv) They have elaborate ornamentations, e.g. beads.

(v) Human figures are mainly represented.

(vi) Heads are in life size.

(vii) They are symbolic.

(viii) Eyes are round and without pupils.

(8a) 

(PICK ANY THREE)

(i) Early Christian and Byzantine

(ii) Anglo-Saxon and viking

(iii) Insular

(iv) Ottonian

(v) Romansque 

(vi) Carolingian 

(vii) Gothic

(8b)

(i) Elaborately decorative patterns

(ii) Bright colors

(iii) iconography

(iv) Christian subject matter

(v) The use of precious metals

(vi) stylized figures