Art Appreciation Ch. 5

Visual weight

refers to apparent "heaviness" or "lightness" of the forms arranged in a composition, as guaged by how insistently they draw our eyes.

Proportion

refers to size relationships between parts of a whole or between two or more items perceived as a unit.

Principles of Design

codify, or explain systematically, our sent of "rightness" and help to show why certain designs work better than others

Variety

difference which provides interest

golden section

divides a length into two unequal segments in such a way that the smaller segment has the same ratio to the larger segment as the larger segment has to the whole.

formalism

focuses on the formal elements of a work, especially its style.

composition

in two-dimensional art when the artist organizes all the elements to satisfy his expressive intent.

Subordination

means that certain areas of the composition are purposefully made less visually interesting so that the areas of emphasis stand out.

Emphasis

means that our attention is drawn more to certain parts of a composistion than to others.

design

organizing the elements to satisfy the artist expressive intent within all types of art.

Lorna Simpson.

Easy to remember 2001

Le Corbusier

The Modulor 1945 and Notre-Dame-du-Haut, 1950-55

Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

golden ratio

1 to 1.618

Edouard Manet

A Bar at the Foiles-Bergere

mood or meaning

As an important aspect of form, balance also helps communicate a ______.

looking

Balance encourages our acive participation in _________.

Gustavv Klimt

Death and Life

Georgia O'Keeffe

Deer's Skull with Pedernal 1936

Rene Magritte

Delusions of Grandeur II 1948

Francisco de Goya

Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-1815

Leon Battista Alberti

Facade of Sant' Andrea, Mantua 1470

Kaiho Yusho

Fish Nets Drying in the Sun. 17th Century

Pablo Picasso

Girl Before a Mirror 1932

focal point

If emphasis is on a relatively small, clearly defined area it is called a ________.

Paul Klee

Landscape with Yellow Birds 1923

Henry Matisse

Memory of Oceania

Annette Messager

Mes Voeux

Jospeh Cornell

The Hotel Eden

Claes Oldenburg and Cooseje van Bruggen.

Plantoir 2001

Isamu Noguchi

Red Cube

Jackson Pollock

Shimmering Substance

Paul Cezanne

Still Life with Compotier, Pitcher, and Fruit. 1892-94

Leonardo Da Vinci

Study of Human Proportions according to Vitruvius 1485-90

Henry Ossawa Tanner

The Banjo Lesson 1893

Hans Baldugn Grien

The Three Ages of Woman and Death, 1510

Tawaraya (Nonomura)Sotatsu

The Zen Priest Choka 16th/17th century

Newar Artists Densatil Monastery

Thirteen-Deity Jnanadakini Mandala

Titian

Venus with a Mirror 1555

The Luo Brothers

Welcome the World Famous Brand Name

mandala

a diagram of a cosmic realm. meaning circle in Sanskrit.

unity

a sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole.

rhythm

based in repetition and it is a basic part of the world we find ourselves in.

scale

size in relation to a standard or "normal" size.

perception

the principles of design are a natural part of

Normal size

the size we expect something to be.

hierarchical scale

the use of scale to indicate relative importance.

balance

when the weight is distributed evenly around a central axis.