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80 Cards in this Set
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Time |
The fourth dimension in which events occur in succession |
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Motion |
Occurs when an object changes location or position and is directly related to time.
EX: Cai Guo-Qiang. Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia, Spain, 2005
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Kinetic |
plays out the passage of time through an art
Ex: Alexander Calder. Untitled 1972 Aluminum Steel |
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Light |
waves of frequency part of the spectrum of electromagnetic energy
Ex: Daniel Chester French - Lincoln Memorial |
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Value |
Refers to relative lightness or darkness from white through grays or black.-----relative lightness and darkness of surfaces. |
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Chiaroscuro |
Shading from light to dark that creates the illusion that figures and objects depicted on a flat surface have roundness and bulk
Ex: Rosa Bonheur. Harvest Season. Oil on canvas |
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Shade/Tint |
Shade: Adding Black to a hue ----- Tint: White added to a hue |
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Modeling |
________on a two-dimensional surface is the creation of the illusion of roundness or three dimensions through the use of light and shadow. |
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Color |
the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye. |
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Local Color |
The color that appears to our eyes as that of the object is determined by the wavelengths of light being reflected. |
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Achromatic |
White, black, and their combination, gray without the property of hue. |
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Neutral |
White, black, gray |
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Hue |
A particular wavelength of spectral color to which we give a name. Ex: Yellow and green |
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Intensity/Saturation/Chroma |
The purity or how intense a hue or color is |
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Additive Mixture |
The mixture of colored light. When light colors are combined (as with overlapping spot lights), the mixture becomes successively lighter. Light |
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Subtractive Mixture |
The process of mixing pigments, each of which absorbs some wavelengths of light and reflects others |
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Primary |
Red, Yellow, Blue - These pigment hues cannot be produced by an intermixing of other hues. |
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Secondary |
Orange, Green, and Violet - The mixtures of two primaries. |
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Tertiary/Intermediate |
Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, and Red-Violet. Located between the primary and the secondary colors. |
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Analogous |
Color schemes based on color adjacent to one another on the color wheel, each containing the same pure hue, such as a color scheme of yellow-green, green, and blue-green.
Ex: Jennifer Bartlett. Trio |
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Complementary |
Color schemes that emphasize two hues directly opposite each other on the color wheel, such as red and green.
Ex: Keith Haring. Monkey Puzzle |
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Cool Color |
Blue-Green side of the color wheel |
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Warm Color |
Red-Orange side of the color wheel |
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Texture |
The Tactical qualities of surfaces, or to the visual representation of those qualities.
Ex: Meret Oppenheim. Object (Breakfast in Fur)
Ex: Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night
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Texture (Picture Example 2) |
Ex: Meret Oppenheim. Object (Breakfast in Fur) |
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Impasto |
Brush strokes of thick paint
Ex: Jan van Eyck. The Arnolfini Portrait |
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Composition |
The organization of visual elements
Ex: Charles Demuth. I saw the figure 5 in Gold |
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Design |
Broader term to composition referring to the entire range of visual arts. |
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Unity |
The appearance or condition oneness.
Ex: John McCracken. Silver |
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Variety |
Provides diversity and acts to counter unity.
Ex: Jacob Lawrence. Going Home |
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Pattern |
Repetitive ordering of design elements.
Ex: Robert Rauschenberg. Gift for Apollo |
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Balance |
Achievement of equilibrium, in which acting influences are held in check by opposing forces. |
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Asymmetrical Balance |
The left and right sides are not the same, Instead various elements are balanced according to their size and meaning around a felt or implied center of gravity.
Ex: Lavinia Fontana. Noli Me Tangree |
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Symmetrical Balance |
The near or exact matching of left and right sides of three-dimensional form or a two-dimensional composition
Ex: Damien Hirst. Posterity |
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Symmetrical Balance (Another picture example) |
James Hoban. Design for the President's House |
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Emphasis |
To draw attention to an area |
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Focal Point |
A specific spot or figure |
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Subordination |
Artists creates neutral areas of lesser interest that keep us from being distracted from the area
Ex: Edgar Dega. Jockeys Before the Race |
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Directional Forces |
Influence the way we look at a work of art
Ex: Francisco Goya. Bullfight |
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Contrast |
The juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements.
Ex: Kim MacConnel. Woman with Mirror |
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Repetition |
Repeating element to give unity, continuity, flow, and emphasis.
Ex: Donald Judd. Untitled |
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Rhythm |
Any kind of movement or structure or dominate and subordinate elements in sequence.
Ex (with repetition): Ogata Korin. Cranes |
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Rhythm (Picture Example) |
Lyubov Popova. The Pianist |
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Scale |
The relation of one thing to another
Ex: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Shuttlecocks |
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Proportion |
The size relationship of parts to a whole
Ex: Michelangelo Buonarroti. Pieta |
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Format |
Refers to the size and shape of a two-dimensional picture plane.
Ex: Henri Matisse. Large Reclining Nude |
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Art Evaluation |
Selecting one thing over another, or appreciate the specialness of something
Ex: Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun. Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat |
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Kitsch |
art considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way. |
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Popular Pop Culture |
cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
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Art Criticism |
Refers to making discriminating judgments, both favorable and unfavorable |
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Formal Theories |
Focus attention on the composition of the work and how it ay have been influenced by earlier works
Ex: Titian. Pieta |
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Contextual Theories |
Art as a product of a culture and value system
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Expressive Theories |
The artist expression of a personality |
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Camp |
Artwork deliberately created to be amusing because of its affected characteristics, or out-of-date, exaggerated subject matter |
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Masterpiece |
The greatest work, as of an artist. |
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What makes art great and who decides this? |
Its based of of personal preference and the viewer decides. |
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Censorship |
Alternation or removal of works of art from public view |
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Drawing |
Immediate and accessible way to communicate through imagery |
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Drawing Process |
Leonardo da Vinci. Facial Proportions of a Man in Profile |
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Drawing Process #2 |
Vincent Van Gogh. Carpenter |
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Drawing Process #3 |
Vicent Van Gogh. Old Man with His Head in His Hands |
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Sketchbooks |
A visual Diary, a place to capture the physical appearance of things, or experiment with imagined ideas. |
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Receptive |
Drawing of objects that we observe, that exist in reality around us. |
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Projective |
Drawing of objects that come from memory, imanination or visions |
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Functions of Drawing |
1. As a notation, sketch, or record of something seen, remembered, or imagined
2. As a study or preparation for another, usually larger and more complex work
3. As an end in itself, a complete work of art
Ex: Michelangelo Buonarotti. Study of a Reclining Male Nude |
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Cartoon |
A full scale preparatory drawing for a fresco or mural and now commonly used for narrative drawing emphasizing humorous or satirical content |
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Fresco |
technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture |
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Mosaic |
creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is a technique of decorative art or interior decoration |
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Hatching |
Rows of parallel lines to suggest shadows or volumes
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Cross-Hatching |
an extension of hatching, which uses is the use of fine parallel lines drawn closely together, to create the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing.
Ex: Charles White. Preacher |
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Contour Hatching |
The pen and ink technique that looks like lines following the shape of the object |
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Dry Media |
Drawing using pencil, charcoal, Conte crayon, and pastel
Ex: Umberto Boccioni. States of Mind |
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Fixative |
A thin varnish that is sprayed over charcoal to help seal it onto paper and prevent smudging
Ex: Vija Celmins. Web #5 |
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Tooth |
A type of texture that features a small even grain. It allows for some attachment for layers of a medium, such as paint or pastel |
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Liquid Media |
Wet media is anything that has moisture in it and requires time to dry - oil, acrylic, watercolour, tempera, ink |
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Washes |
ink thinned with water
Ex: Hokusai. Tuning the Samisen |
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Comics and Graphic Novels |
Sequential art form based on drawing with graphic novels having book length story lines.
Ex: (Comic) Windsor McCay. Little Nemo in Slumberland |
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Graphic Novel Example |
Gilbert Hernandez. Cover of Fear of Comics |
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Contemporary |
art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century in every day living
Ex: Julie Mehretu. Back to Gondwanaland |
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Camera Lucida |
optical device used as a drawing aid by artists |
