Ch. 1.7 - 1.10 Art App final

Shape

2D area defined by lines or changes in color

Style

A characteristic way artists use visual languahe

Motif

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern- Representing ideas, images, and themes.

Implied line

A line not actually drawn but suggested by elements in the work

Classical period

A period in the history of greek art

Renaissance

A period of cultural and artistic changes in Europe from the 14th to the 17th century

Woodcut

A print created from an incised piece of wood

How does Marc Chagall point the focus to Icarus in "The Fall of Icarus"?

Position at top and center, use of primary colors, contrast

What type of rhythm is used in Artichoke halved?

Progressive Rhythm

Chuck close uses motif in a __________ way

abstract (also textured)

Feldman's four step process for criticism

1. Description 2.Analysis 3.Interpretation 3. Conclusion

Negative

A reversed image in which light areas are dark and dark areas are light

Cast

A sculpture or artwork made by pouring a liquid into a mold (metal/plaster) (example Oni of Ife)

Relief

A sculpture that projects from a flat surface

Golden Section

A unique ratio of a line divided into 2 parts: a +b is to a as a is to b result is 1: 1.618

What type of rhythm is used by the Bai-ra-Irrai?

Alternating rhythm

What type of rhythm makes artwork more lively?

Alternative rhythm

Taoism

An Eastern religion that emphasizes living in harmony through Tao - balance of opposite forces (yin and yan)

Pattern

An arrangement of predictably repeated elements

Surrealism

An artistic movement in the 1920s inspired by dreams and subconscious

Triptych

An artwork comprising three painted or carved panels normally joined together and sharing a common theme

Formal analysis

Analysis of the form or visual appearance of a work of art using the visual language of elements and principles

Facade

Any side of a building usually the front or entrance

Abstract

Art imagery that departs from recognizable images from the natural world

Contextual analysis

Art varying between artist, time, and viewers to provide meaning.

Expressionism

Artistic style at height in 1920's European devoted to representing subjective emotions or experiences instead of objective external reality

Pattern (Rhythm 1.9)

Can be formed using repetition

Broad emphasis

Can occur when there are multiple elements but not one dominates

In the "Funeral of St. Bonaventure" what technique is used to make us focus on the focal point?

Contrast (clothes colors) and positioning

Hierarchical scale

Deliberate use of relative size in a work in order to communicate difference in importance

Dieric Bouts's "The Coronation of the Virgin Mary" uses focal point to do what?

Emphasize importance of a symbol the Virgin even in presence of Holy Trinity

What are proportion used for?

Enhanging expressive and descriptive comparison

Interpretation

Explaining or translating a work of art using factual research, personal response, or a combo of the two

What artwork uses both techniques of negatives and golden ratio?

Fading away by Henry Peach Robinson

The Area that a pattern covers is called what?

Field

What ratio of line does Poseidon for Zeuz use?

Golden ratio

Three -dimensional

Having height width and depth

Monumental

Having massive or impressive scale

Stylistic Analysis

Helps identify artist, can be individual or group

Iconographic analysis

Identifying the symbolic meaning of objects and elements

What does Robert Lostutter's Hummingbirds small scale portray?

Intimacy

What is an example of broad emphasis?

Jacob Lawrence's "John Brown Remained..."

Momento Mori

Latin phrase "remember that you must die" (skulls, flowers, clocks)

Value

Lightness or darkness of a plane

Motiff often called...

Module

The Match Cover monument in Barcelona is an example of what principle in effect?

Monumental scale

Line

a mark or implied mark between two end points

What are the three contextual analysis?

Religious context, historical context, Biographical context

When more than two points of reference happen what is it?

Rhythm

Ando Hiroshige's "riverside Bamboo Market" uses three focal paoints with placement techniques, what are 3 basic techniques he also uses?

Rhythm, outline, and woodcut

The great Mosque of Corboda uses what type of Rhythm?

Simple Repetitive Rhythm

What kinds of rhythms are there (3)?

Simple repetitive Rhythm Progressive Rhythm Alternating Rhythm

In contrast of Marc Chagall, Pieter Bruegel uses what technique in his "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"?

Subordination: Artist deliberately diverts attention so we barely notice Icarus plunging to doom "Life goes on"

Artist Agnes Martin became interested in what phylosophy?

Taoism

Principles

The "grammar" applied to the elements (contrast, balance, unity, variety, rhythm, emphasis, pattern, scale, proportion, and focal point)

Elements

The basic vocabulary of art (line, form, shape, volume, mass, color, texture, space, time, and motion, value)

Focal Point

The center of interest or activity in a work of art often drawing the viewers attention to most important element

Space

The distance between identifiable points or planes

Anamorphosis

The distorted representation of an object so that it appears correctly proportioned only then viewed from one particular position (skull)

Contrast

The drastic difference between such elements such as color or value when presented together

Unity

The imposition of order and harmony on a design

Content

The meaning message or feeling expressed in a work of art

Subordination

The opposite of emphasis- Drawing our attention away from a particular area of work

Color

The optical effect caused when reflected white light of the spectrum is divided into separate wavelengths

Outline

The outermost line or implied line of an object or figure defined or bounded

Composition

The overall design or organization of a work

Foreground

The part of a work depicted as the nearest to the viewer

Middle ground

The part of the work between the foreground and background

Background

The part of the work depicted as behind the main figures

Vanishing point

The point in a work of art in which imafginary lines appear ro converge suggesting depth

Emphasis

The principles of drawing attention to particular attention to particular content in a work

Rhythm

The regular or ordered repetition of elements in the work (placement can control it/ can create multiple focal poitns)

Proportions

The relationship in size between a work's individual parts and the whole (Principle)

Format

The shapes of the area an artists uses for making two dimensional artwork (Egypt used to use human hand) (6 palms=1 cubit, 4 cubits=1 man)

Scale

The size of an object or artwork relative to another object (principle)

Texture

The surface quality of a work

Afocal means...

There is not one specific focal point

Primary color

Three basic colors from which all others are derived

How does a wall in Egypt show its hierarchical scale?

Through its relief

What does massive scale symbolize?

Virtue and heroism

Gothic

Western european architectural style of twelfth to sixteenth century- use of pointed arches and ornate decorations

Why do artisist use repeptition in architecture?

represent stability