Art 109 1st exam

Complementary

Involve colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel such as green and red

Wabi

Japanese word for concepts such as naturalness, simplicity, understatement, and impermanence

Katachi

Japanese word meaning form and design. The closest word equivalent in the Japanese language to the Western notion of visual art

Sabi

Japaneses word for ideas of loneliness, old age, and tranquility

Robert Rauschenberg

Known for breaking down boundaries between artists mediums. He had a close working relationship with composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham

Model

Light and shape can model an object giving it a three dimensional appearance

Foreshortening

Linear perspective must apply to every form that recedes into the distance including objects and human animal forms

Picture plane

Literal surface

Color harmony (color scheme)

Use of two or more colors in a single composition

Monochromatic

Variations of same hue with difference value and intensity (using 1 color)

Sight

Visual Art

Outline

defines a two dimensional shape

Subjective

everyone's brain interprets a visual situation differently

Selective perception

focusing on important information, relegating everything else in the background

Subject Matter

the object or event upon which a work of art is based

Form

the way a work or art looks

Stippling

uses dots to suggest value through optical mixing into values

Creativity

using our own experiences to enhance life and work

NOT examples of style

1. Sculpture 2. Color 3. Content

Aesthetics

Coined by Alesander Baumgarten. Describes knowledge gained by sensory experience combined with feelings

Analogous

Combination of colors adjacent to one another on the color wheelc

Triadic

Composed of any 3 colors equidistant from each other

examples of style

1. Abstract 2. Naturalistic 3. Historical 4. Representational

Correct order of date of paintings (oldest to new)

1. Lion Panel (Chauvet cave) 2. Stonehedge 3. Jahanir Receives a cup from Khursau 4. The starry night 5. Birds in space 6. Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Value

Shades of light and dark

Chiaroscuro

A painting technique, perfected by Italian renaissance painters that employ light and shadow. Contrasts of light and shadow in the natural world

Hozho

In Navajo Philosophy, hozho indicates the beauty and harmony of the world

Vietnam Memorial

Place for human purpose

Shape

2D

Mass

3D that occupies a volume of space

Shade

A color darker than the hues normal value

Tint

A color lighter than the hues normal value

Hokusai

A famous Japanese painter known for his virtuosity in landscape images

Kinetic

Art that moves

Intermediate colors

Blue-Green. Mixing of a primary color and adjacent secondary color

Meta Warrick Fuller

Born in 1877, he sought out themes that would help american blacks reconnect with their African heritage

Constantine Brancusi

Born in Romania - Sculptor who created simple and pure forms

aesthetics (n)

Branch of philosophy concered with feelings around us with sensory experiences

Pryamids

Built for tombs to aid the buried in the afterlife

Liberty Leading the People

Eugene Delecroix. An example of an artist who was free to express the social events of his day

Kente Cloth

Extraordinary version of an ordinary object

Examples for Edward Hoppers "Gas" picture

Form: 1. The work's rectangular shape 2. The dark green color of the trees 3. Size difference between the man and the gas pump Content: 1. Daily american life 2. The solitude of rural america Subject Matter: 1. A gas station attendant at the pump

Color theory

Found my Isaac Newton, found that recombining rainbow colors into white light

Secondary colors

Green and Voilet. Each is made by combing 2 colors

Hearing

Music

Hue

Name of color according to color wheel

linear perspective

Optically convincing space to set forms in

Guernica

Pablo Picasso work on this in response to the brutalities of the Spanish civil war. Finished in 1937 for World's Fair

Wang Jian

Painted White clouds over Xiao and Xiang. Inspired by an earlier similar 14th century work

Vanitas

Paintings from 17th century that deal with fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness

Vanishing point

Pharrell lines receding into distance seem to converge until they meet at a point on the horizon line where they disappear

The statue of Marcus Aurelius

Philosopher king. One of the finest examples of Roman Work

Jahangir Recieves a cup from Khursau

Recording and commemorating

Primary colors

Red and Yellow. Cannot be made by any mixture of other colors

Intensity

Relative Purity of a color

atmospheric perspective

Showing depth by making the distant objects, hazy and bluish

Western Tradition

Style of Art has its roots in European Thought

Figure

The shape we detach and focus on (positive shapes)

Ground

The surrounding visual information the figure stands out from (negative shapes)

Hatching

The use of closely spaced parallel lines to indicate three dimensional objects

Implied Line

a dotted line

Line

a path traced by a moving point

isometric perspective

a system using diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

Diagonal Line

carries the most energy and sense of movement

Assiocations

interpreting work in a personal manner

Contour Line

records the boundaries of a three dimensional shape

Style

refers to characteristics that we recognize as constant, recurring, or coherent

Peeling Paint on Iron Bench

see the world in new ways

The starry night

tangible form to feelings and ideas

Shiva Natarja

tangible form to the unknown

Content

what a work of art is about