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
