Art 105 Exam #1
Terms
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- The Four levels of vision
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Practical
Curious
Imaginative
Aesthetic - *Derivation of the word STYLE
- Stilus: an instrument used by the ancients in writing on waxed tablets, thus, a distinctive manner or characteristic.
- The Aesthetic Process
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Observation
Selection
Perception
Interpretation
Expression - The two statements that are the most important in understanding the concept of ABSTRACTION in art.
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1. All art is abstract. (it all represents something)
2. Some artists abstract more than others. - Abstraction degree #1
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Portrays nature
Realism
-Rockwell
-Wayatt - Abstraction degree #2
- Changes/distorts nature
- Abstraction degree #3
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Abandons nature
Non-objective
-DeJong - Types of subjects in every work of art
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1. Obvious/Outer - what we all see
2. Inner - what the artist tries to say about the obvious; message or interpretation - Subject category: Narrative
- telling a story
- Subject category: Literary
- uses sources from books, poems, plays, etc. for ideas
- Subject category: Religious
- depicting the spiritual world
- Subject category: Landscapes
- nature as the dominant theme
- Subject category: Cityscapes
- streets, building, urban life
- Subject category: Historical
- memorializing an important event from the past
- Subject category: Figurative
- visualizing the human body (the nude)
- Subject category: Portrait
- a visual biography
- Subject category: Self-portrait
- a visual auto-biography
- Subject category: Genre
- everyday life situations
- Subject category: Social Commentary
- a visual statement about the society or world; usually negative in nature
- Subject category: Still Life
- an arrangement of objects
- Subject category: Animals
- domestic or wild
- Subject category: Expressionistic
- when the personal and emotional feelings are strongly added into the work of art
- Subject category: Abstract
- when the artist simplifies the reality depicted... for example, leaving out all details of an object... making the object look "less real"
- Subject category: Non-objective Art
- No recognizable objects
- Iconographical Approach
- Looking at the subject and meaning of art
- Morphology Approach
- Composition design, color
- Media: Ground
- surface upon which the medium is placed
- Media: Wash
- the term used to describe the dilution of ink with water
- Media category: Drawing
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-Pencil
-Charcoal
-Pen & Wash
-Pastel - colored chalk - Media category: Painting
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-Fresco - painting with plaster
-Tempra - mix egg in water
-Oil
-Watercolor
-Acrylic - Media category: Printmaking
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-Woodcut
-Intaglio
-Lithograph
-Serigraph (slik screen) - setncil, ink, screen - Media category: Sculpture
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-Marble
-Bronze
-Wood
-Steel - Tempra
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Egg
Water - Fresco
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1. True/Buon Fresco WET method
2. Dry/Fresco Seco - Oil
- Van Eyck
- Intaglio
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BELOW THE SURFACE
1. etching
2. drypoint
3. engraving - Etching
- ACID on a metal plate so it EATS AWAY at the surface
- Drypoint
- Sharp pick-like tool to SCRATCH the metal surface
- Engraving
- BURIN is used to carve into the metal plate
- Lithography
- Flat surface - uses the principle of "ink and grease crayon don't mix"
- Serigraph
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Silk screen- stencil, screen, and ink
-Andy Warhol - The Practical Level
- Everyone sees the same thing
- The Curious Level
- Concentrates on an object, yet free to look around (children see at this level)
- The Imaginative Level
- Seeing through the mind's eye (day dreaming/visualizing in your mind)
- The Aesthetic Level
- Highest level of vision (seeing and object artistically... for its beauty sake)