Art I Vocabulary

1. Art I Vocabulary EOA, POD, etc.

2. Still-Life: A drawing or painting of inanimate objects Ex: vases, flowers, instruments

3. COMPOSITIONin fine arts: The act of organizing the elements and principles of art into a harmoniously unified whole John William Waterhouse; The Lady of Shallot

4. Medium/Mediain fine arts: The material(s) that an artist uses to create an art work. EX: • When you paint a picture in acrylic paint, the medium is acrylic. • If your composition is made up of acrylic, photographs, and hand-made papers, you have created a MIXED-MEDIA composition.

5. The Elements of Art

6. They Include: Line Shape Form Color Value Texture Space The building blocks an artist works with to create an artwork. Elements of Art

7. Line A continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool (writing utensil). • Examples:

8. Line Types: • Descriptive: outlines, contour lines, single lines, hatching, crosshatching • Implied: A line that is suggested or inferred, rather than completely drawn out. • Expressive: line personalities (we associate certain feelings with a line’s shape, movement, & direction

9. Descriptive Line OUTLINES:lines that show outer edges of shapes (appears flat)

10. Descriptive Line CONTOUR lines define outer edges (outlines) & inner surface detail of a shape

11. Descriptive Lines Stippling

12. Implied Lines

13. Expressive Lines:

14. Shape • Shape: 2-dimensional; Can be drawn on paper, painted on a canvas • 2 Types of Shapes: Organic Geometric

15. Form • Form: -3-dimensional -Encloses volume -has height, width, and depth

17. COLOR • Primary Colors:Red, Yellow, Blue (make every other color on wheel when properly mixed) • Secondary:Violet, Orange, Green • Intermediate:the colors between the primary & secondary colors (ex: Yellow-Orange)

18. Warm Colors: red, yellow, orange Cool Colors: blue, green, violet

19. Complementary Colors Colors that are directly across from one another on the color wheel . They go well, or compliment, one another. For Example: Red&Green Orange&Blue Yellow&Violet

20. Analagous Colors • Colors that are side-by-side, or neighbors, on the color wheel. • They go well together.

21. Monochromatic The full value range of one color. In other words, there are different versions of 1 color because of the addition of black & white.

22. VALUE • Value is the range from light to dark • ex: Shading in a drawing • Value/Shading makes an art work appear to be more 3-dimensional and realistic

23. Shading Examples:

24. Benefits of Shading:

27. TEXTURE • How a surface feels, or in art, how the surface appearsto feel to the touch • Simulated Texture: texture can be seen/imagined, but not felt • Actual Texture: the texture you see can be felt

28. SPACE • The areas between, around, above, below, or within something Positive & Negative Space: Negative Empty or void space, space around an object or form; also called white space. Positive Space in an artwork that is filled with something, such as lines, designs, color, or shapes. Linear Perspective: a method of showing depth in art

29. Positive & Negative Space Examples:

30. Japanese Notan

31. 1-pt Linear Perspective: 2-pt Linear Perspective:

32. The Principles of Design

33. Unity Variety Emphasis Rhythm & Movement Balance Pattern Proportion The way the elements of art are used. Principles of Design

34. UNITY • A principle of design related to the wholeness that results from the successful combination of the component elements of an artwork.

35. VARIETY • Including various elements into the artwork to offset unity and add interest

36. EMPHASIS • One element creates more attention than anything else in the composition • This dominant element is usually the focal point and adds unity to the composition

37. RHYTHM • Combining elements to produce the appearance of movement in an artwork. • May be done by repetition, alternation, or progression of an element.

38. MOVEMENT • the arrangement of parts in an artwork to create a sense of motion to the viewer’s eye through the work

39. BALANCE • The arrangement of visual elements to create stability in an artwork • 4 balance arrangements: asymmetrical, symmetrical, approximately symmetrical, and radial

40. Balance Continued… Asymmetrical Symmetrical

41. Balance Continued… Approximately Symmetrical Radial Symmetry

42. PATTERN • The repetition of elements or combinations of elements in a recognizable organization

43. PROPORTION • The size relationship of parts to one another and to a whole.

44. ART HISTORY: ARTISTS ART MOVEMENTS Art Nouveau Photo-Realism Abstract/Non-Figurative Cubism Abstract Expressionism Pointillism Surrealism Pop Art Baroque • Gustav Klimt • Chuck Close • Wassily Kandinsky • Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque • Jackson Pollock • Georges Seurat • Salvador Dali • Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein • Caravaggio

45. GUSTAV KLIMT ART NOUVEAU French for “new art;” This type of art has flowing curves, swirling lines & a delicate feel. Figures are elongated & distorted, and plant forms serve as inspiration. There are brilliantly colored areas of pattern as well. The Kiss, 1908

46. Chuck Close PHOTO-REALISM • Realist paintings and sculptures involving thorough reproduction of detail. In painting the results were nearly photographic — in fact made from photographs (although painters had been working from photographs since the early days of photography). • Although its center was in the United States, the Photo-Realism movement was also strong in Europe from the late 1960s into the 1970s, where his type of illusionism is known principally as superrealism. American Photo-Realistic painter, photographer Born July 5, 1940 in Monroe, Washington BA, University of Washington in Seattle; MFA Yale University Known for large scale portraits Spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him paralyzed, but he has continued to work

48. WASSILY KANDINSKY ABSTRACT/ NON-FIGURATIVE Art that does not represent or imitate external reality or the objects of nature Consists of lines, shapes, colors abstract artist Born Dec. 16th, 1866 in Moscow, Russia Practiced law prior to becoming a painter Wrote art & geometry books Known for use of brilliant colors & geometric shapes Had Synaesthesia (a neural condition where 2 senses cross over/combine)

49. PABLO PICASSO CUBISM • Analytical: The first phase of Cubism (1907 to 1912) • reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts and then tried to reconcile these essentially three-dimensional parts with the two-dimensional picture plane. Multiple perspectives of an item shown. • Color subdued--paintings nearly monochromatic. • Leading cubists: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) • Synthetic: grew out of Analytical Cubism and the experimental nature of Collage • developed through a construction process rather than the analytical process and deconstruction of Analytical Cubism • more decorative and appealing and somewhat easier to interpret.

50. JACKSON POLLOCK ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM • Rapidly painted on huge canvases • Shows feelings and emotions • Free-flowing; non-geometrical • Painted with large brushes or drip & splatter method • Art appears to be by accident or chance—more about process than overall outcome • The expressive method of painting was often considered as important as the painting itself.