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| A mark left by a moving point, actual or implied, and varying in direction, thickness, and density. |
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| The perceived line that marks the border of an object in space. Outside of a shape. Example is House by Smith |
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| 3. Expressive line or Implied Line |
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| A line created by movement or direction, such as the line established by a pointing finger, the direction of a glance, or a body moving through space. Line of sight, the direction the figures in a given composition are looking. |
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| Any solid that occupies a three-dimensional volume. |
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| Empty space, surrounded and shaped so that it acquires a sense of form or volume. |
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| 6. Figure ground reversal |
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| Figure ground is a visual relationship between foreground and background. This is important to the perception of images, as the edges form the image that we see. Figure: The main focus of the composition (positive space) Ground: The secondary portion of the composition (negative space) |
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| The comparative size of an object in relation to other objects and settings. |
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| 8. Perspective – one point linear |
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| A version of linear perspective in which there is only one vanishing point in the composition. |
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| In linear perspective, the point on the horizon line where parallel lines appear to converge. |
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The modification of perspective to decrease distortion resulting from the apparent visual contraction of an object or figure as it extends backwards from the picture plane at an angle approaching the perpendicular.
Example - The Dead Christ
by Mantenga |
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| An affect achieved when shapes, colors, or a regular pattern of any kind is repeated over and over again. |
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| 12. Atmospheric perspective |
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| A technique, often employed in landscape painting, designed to suggest three-dimensional space in the two-dimensional space of the picture plane, and in which forms and objects distant from the viewer become less distinct, often bluer or cooler in color, and contrast among the various distance elements is greatly reduced. |
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| In drawing and painting, the use of light and dark to create the effect of three-dimensional, modeled surfaces. |
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| An area of closely spaced parallel lines, employed in drawing and engraving, to create the effect of shading or modeling. |
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| Two or more sets of roughly parallel and overlapping lines, set at an angle to one another, in order to create a sense of three-dimensional, modeled space. |
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| A color or hue modified by the addition of another color resulting in a hue of a lighter value, in the way, for instance, that the addition of white to red results in pink. |
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| A color or hue modified by the addition of another color, resulting in a hue of a darker value, in the way, for instance, that the addition of block to red results in maroon. |
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| A color, as found on a color wheel. |
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| The hues that in theory cannot be created from a mixture of other hues and from which all other hues are created—namely, in pigment, red, yellow, and blue, and in refracted light, red-orange, green, and blue-violet. |
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| Hues created by combining two primary colors; in pigment, the secondary colors are traditional considered to be, orange, green, and violet; in refracted light, yellow, magenta, and cyan. |
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| A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. |
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| 22. Art for the art’s sake |
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| A slogan meaning that the beauty of the fine arts is reason enough for pursuing them — that art does not have to serve purposes taken from politics, religion, economics, and so on. Art needs no justification, that it need serve no political or other purpose. |
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1. see the world in a new and inventive ways
2. create a visual record or visual of a time and place
3. make functional objects and structures more pleasurable and meaningful
4. give form to the immaterial ideas and feeligns |
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| architecture, sculpture, painting, things you would see in a museum |
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| textiles, glass, ceramics and furniture, utilitarian - things we can use |
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| God by Jan van Eyck - panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, uses symbolism to get point across |
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Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge
portrays events from above, tipis, warriors and women in formal attire |
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Howling Wolf
painted 10 years later white in prison, colorful |
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Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge
black and white, no women, eyes directed towards the center, view is limited to grove itself |
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David (marble sculpture)
renaissance = rebirth
symbolic of republic of Florence
posing
gaze is the same as Bernini's. 13 ft. 5 ", nude |
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David (marble sculpture)
not nude, high energy, life size, hands are more proportionate
shows movement, ready to fight |
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Whisper, the waves, the wind 93-94
Performance Art, stages protest violence against women, story of older women, waves hitting shoreline |
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| line, space, light and color, pattern, texture, time and motion |
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Zeus or Poseiden vs. Lisa Lyon
stereotype that men are strong and rational and women as weak and given to emotional outbursts |
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Photographer for Lyon is Mapplethorpe
he broke down stereotype of women of us being fragile and week, prone to emotional mess |
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| surface quality of a work |
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| repetitive motion or design |
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| art can suggest the passing of time, create the illusion of movement, optically before the eye |
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everything radiates outward from a central point
good example is the Rose Window |
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perfectly balanced
good example is the Virtruvian Man
by Leonardo da Vinci |
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good example of linear perspective
Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day
Paris Street on a Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte |
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Dead Christ
Andrea Mantegna
Foreshortening - dimensions are adjusted to make up for the distortions because of reverence of subject matter |
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Harmony in Red
by Henri Matisse
Flattens everything like wallpaper on purpose
visual play
experimenting with space
design is duplicated in chair spinles, trees, hairdo |
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light changes
chiaroscurro
flat circle to sphere with light changes |
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The Coiffure
by Mary Cassatt
only female ever asked to joint impressionist group
depicts pictures of feamles
uses hatching
emphasis is to show curves of women |
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Head of a Satyr (part man, part beast)
by Michelangelo
cross hatching
great author as well
also sculpted david |
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The Creation of Adam
by Michelangelo
ceiling of Sistine Chapel
the father gives life to Adam
Eve is under his arm, give the gift of Eve to Adam
centuries past the color was restored
putti = angels |
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Drift No. 2
Bridget Riley
Rolling Waves
optical art to stimulate the nervous system
to thinking it perceives movement
non representational art
study of form |
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Autumn Rhythm
by Jackson Pollock
Action Painting
Abstract expressionism - movement
changed the course of painting |
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The Vitruvian Man
by Leonardo va Vinci
perfectly balanced - symmetrical
navel - essence of life
human figure analogy to the universe
earthly world and heavenly world |
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Rose Window
shape of a flower
dominant color, flowerlike structure
last judgment
good example of radial symmetry
Jesus is the Center |
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Las Meninas (the Maids of Honor)
implied lines by Diego Velazquez
focus is on subject - blond girl
light shines on her alone
center of painting
multiple focal points
portrait of King Philip and Quen Marianana |
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Spoonbridge and Cherry
by Oldenburg and Bruggen
scale - manipulated, gigantic exageration
sculpture |
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Doryphorous
by Polykleitos
Spear Carrier, marble sculpture
Perfect Proportion, each body part is a common fraction of the figures total height
the head is 1/8 of body's height
shoulders - 1/4 |
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Barber Shop
by Jacob Lawrence
repetition and rhythm, established by shape and color |
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Gates of Hell (with Adam and Eve)
by Auguste Rodin
over 200 figures who swirl in hell fire
Adam - father of sin
Three shades on top = Adams 3x's different angles
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Las Vegas Nevada - American Strip
post modernism - terms used to describe eclectic forms of art today
Architect Robert Venturi
collison of styles
disorder - order we can not see |
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Yukinori Yanagi’s
World Flag Ant Farm
globalization - people moving around globe, races aren't pure any more
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon(Ladies of Avignon)
large oil painting of 1907
by the Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973).
The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer... |
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