Chapter 1 Exam Visual Arts

art imagery that departs from recognizable images of the natural world

Abstract

a mid-twentieth-century artistic style characterized by its capacity to convey intense emotions using non-representational images

Abstract Expressionism

colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel

Analogous Perspective

an artistic style at its height in 1920s Europe, devoted to representing subjective emotions and experiences instead of objective or external reality

Expressionism, Expressionist

a perspective technique that depicts a form (often distorting or reducing it) at an angle that is not parallel to the picture plane, in order to convey the illusion of depth

Foreshortening

use of shades of color and clarity to create the illusion of depth. Closer objects have warmer tones and clear outlines, while objects set further away are cooler and become hazy

atmospheric perspective

the use of overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness

cross-hatching

a carved panel where the figures project with a great deal of depth from the background

high relief (alto relief)

an image or shape that looks exactly (or nearly exactly) the same on both sides when cut in half

symmetrical balance

mixing a primary and secondary

tertiary colors (red-violet)

the lightness or darkness of a plane or area

value

colors mixed from two primary colors

Secondary colors(orange, green, violet)

a sculpture carved with very little depth: the carved subjects rise only slightly above the surface of the work

Bas Relief(low relief)

the use of light and dark in a painting to create the impression of volume

Chiaroscuro

a work of art assembled by gluing materials, often paper, onto a surface. From the French coller, to glue

Collage

colors opposite one another on the color wheel

Complementary Colors

a work in which the communication of an idea or group of ideas are most important to the work

Conceptual Art

twentieth-century movement and style in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage; were artists who formed part of the movement. is also used to describe their style of painting

Cubism, Cubist

an artistic movement originating in Italy in 1909 that violently rejected traditional forms in favor of celebrating and incorporating into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology; were artists working in this style

Futurism, Futurist

category of artistic subject matter, often with a strongly influential history and tradition

Genre

western European architectural style of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, characterized by the use of pointed arches and ornate decoration

Gothic

a system using converging imaginary sight lines to create the illusion of depth

Linear Perspective

a late nineteenth-century painting style conveying the impression of the effects of light; were painters working in this style

Impressionism

a freestanding sculpted work that can be viewed from all sides

In the round

three-dimensional art that moves, impelled by air currents, motors, or people

Kinetic art/sculpture

a radically new twentieth-century art and architectural movement that embraced modern industrial materials and a machine aesthetic

Modernist, Modernism

a perspective system with a single vanishing point on the horizon

One-point perspective

a work involving the human body, usually including the artist, for an audience

Performance Art

the colorant in art materials. Often made from finely ground minerals

Pigment

a late nineteenth-century painting style using short strokes or points of differing colors that optically combine to form new perceived colors

Pointillism

three basic colors from which all others are derived

Primary Colors(red, yellow, blue)

the relationship in size between a work's individual parts and the whole

Proportion

a period of culture and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century

Renaissance

art that depicts figures and objects so that we recognize what is represented

Representational

the size of an object or artwork relative to another object or artwork, or to a system of measurement

Scale

an artistic movement in the 1920s and later; its works were inspired by dreams and the subconscious

Surrealism, Surrealist

an artwork comprising three panels, normally joined together and sharing a common theme

Triptych

originally referring to the hanging of pictures and arrangement of objects in an exhibition, installation may also refer to an intentional environment created as a completed artwork

installation

having one or more values of one color

monochromatic

an unoccupied or empty space that is created after positive shapes are positioned in a work of art

negative space