Art Exam 1 Review

Kawaii

Anime of young school girls, applies FLATNESS. (OUTLINE)

LeWitt, Wall Drawing No. 681 C, 1993

Controlled lines

Organic shape

Free formed

Photorealism

paintings so realistic they look like photos.

focal point

use of emphasis to draw the viewers attention to one area of the work.

mass/form

3d solid ex: sphere

Nara, Dead Flower, 1994

Outline Line (flatness)

Caillebotte, Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day, 1876-77

multiple vanishing points

Geometric shape

shapes ruled by mathematical objects

Foreshortening

Distorting space to create a POV

positive space

Space in an artwork that is positive. Filled with something, such as lines, designs, color, or shapes.

Outline

indicates the shape of 2-3 dimensional form, emphasizing its FLATNESS. Ex: Comics

cross-hatching

the use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness

Expressive line

Expresses emotion and energy. Ex: The starry night by van gogh conveys a nocturnal landscape with loose, free lines. (vertical axis)

Line of sight

Implied lines suggested by the direction in which figures in a picture are looking, or from the observer's eye to the object being looked at.

simultaneous contrast

When two different colors come into direct contact, the contrast intensifies the difference between them.

Animism

giving inanimate objects souls.

content

refers to the works subject matter, significance, and style.

Roles of an Artist

1. To record the world 2. To give visual or tangible form to ideas, philosophies, or feelings 3. To reveal hidden or universal truths 4. To help us see the world in a new or innovative way

Optical Painting (Op Art)

An art style particularly popular in the 1960s in which line and color are manipulated in ways that stimulate the eye into believing it perceives movement.

Silk Road

Ancient network of economy and cultural trade routes that discovered Asia and Europe.

Context

Circumstances surrounding the creation and/or the viewing of artwork.

Controlled Lines

Controlled, logical and organized lines.

atmospheric perspective

Creating the illusion of depth of space by fading colors and eliminating detail in objects that are further away.

Contour line

Form the edges of a 3D shape and suggests volume, recession, projection in space.

Expressive drip

Hung Liu, Relic 12 represents a courtesan surrounded by symbols from Chinese painting.

Passive Seeing

Looking at something

Kwei studio, Coffin in the shape of a film projector, 2013

Makes functional objects more pleasurable

Implied line

Noncontinuous mark connects one point to another but connection is suggested visually.

Figure ground reversal

Relationship between the work of art and its background is interchangeable.

representational style

Style of artwork portraying NATURAL objects in recognizable form.

reception

The first step to seeing.. external stimuli enter the nervous system through our eyes.

action painting

a style of painting that relies on the physical movement of an artist by using such gestural techniques.

afocal

no focal point

Shape

A two-dimensional contour that characterizes an object or area which are measured in terms of height and width.

Nonobjective Style

Art making no reference to the natural world. Explores potential of formal elements.

kinect art

Art that moves David Hickman, the messengers (birds at tech)

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper. ca. 1495-98

Linear perspective in cafeteria

symbolic color

a color which has been assigned a particular meaning by the members of a society Rainbow- LGBTQ

intutitive perspective

approximation of objects in space

Hatching

closely spaced parallel lines to create the effect of shadowing/ modeling.

analogous colors

colors that are next to each other on the color wheel

abstract style

depicting recognizable things but not realistically

Orthogonal

dotted lines aligning lines (vanishing points)

Negative space

empty space around an object or a person, such as the cut-out areas between a figure's legs or arms of a sculpture

tenebrisim

great contrast of light and dark employed for impact and dramatic effect Ex: Artemisia Gentilesch, Judith and Maidservant

Linear perspective

mathematical system, creates the illusion of 3d space.

Janine Antoni, Touch. 2002. Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red (The Red Room), 1908-09

painting manipulates space through patter, and bright colors.

figure-ground relationship

relationship between a work of art and surface upon which the work was made.

extraction

the retina extracts the basic information it needs and sends this info to the visual cortex.

Iconography

the study of a group of representative pictures or symbols

Active Seeing

the thought that everything you see is filtered through a long history of fears, prejudices, desires, emotions, customs, and beliefs. (Interpreting something)

subordination

use of emphasis to draw attention away from particular part of composition,.

Chiaroscuro

use of light/dark to create the effect of 3d modeled surfaces in drawing/painting. Ex: Paul Colin, Figure of a women

trompe l'oeil

visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object.

subject matter

what the image literally depicts

Inference

what you see is the inference your visual cortex extracts from the information your retina sends it.

afterimage effect

when the eye sees the complementary color of something that the viewer has spent an extended time viewing