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- Who created ice sculptures?
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Pastels were popularized when?
- 1700s by Edgar Degas
- What does a short, jagged line evoke?
- tension, activity, chaos
- Name the elements of art.
- Line, shape/form, space, color, texture, perspective
- What is implied line?
- a seroes of dots the eye connects to create a line
- What is a fresco?
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Earliest form of painting on plaster
Found in Pompeii, renaissance
- Differentiate between what geometric and organic shapes/forms convey.
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Geometric - order/stability
Organic - movement, rhythm - What is soft sculpture?
- Sew woven fiber to make form and stuff
- What does a horizontal line evoke?
- tranquility, stability, peace
- Who was Robert Smithson?
- Made spiral in Great Salt Lake from rock/algae water
- What are the elements of art also called?
- sensory properties
- Paintbrushes can be made from what?
- Rabbit, camel hair; synthetic
- What does a diagonal line evoke?
- movement, action, excitement
- What is texture?
- How objects in art would feel if touched
- What does a vertical line evoke?
- strength, boldness against gravity and nature
- What is a hue?
- Name of a color
- What is line?
- the moving path of a point
- Discuss relief.
- Surface cut away, ink rolled with brayer, pressed with burnisher
- Differentiate between a shape and a form.
- Shape - 2D, Form - 3D
- Define scale.
- Relative sizes of parts to whole
- In linear perspective lines converge where?
- vanishing points (either 1 or 2)
- Define value.
- Variations of black and white w/ all grays
- What is perspective?
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illusion of depth
(showing a 3D scene on a 2D surface) - What is optical color?
- Appearance under a variety of lighting
- What is the visible border of an object?
- contour
- What are the neutrals?
- Black and white
- Differentiate between the feeling evoked by open and closed spaces.
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Closed - stability, solidity
Open - lighter, airy
(windowless room VS meadow) - Discuss glass.
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Middle east, 3rd millennium BC
Made of silica(sand, flint, quartz)
- What are the two kinds of space and the difference between them?
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positive - definite objects (figure) make up this area
negative - aka ground, area around figure - Discuss drawing.
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1st process in creating larger work
most common, primarily uses line
- Name the types of relief in order of their projection.
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high - alot
low - aka bas, slightly
Riliveo schiacciato - barely - What is balance?
- Distribution of visual weight
- What is space?
- organization of objects and the area surrounding them
- What are tertiary colors?
- Mixture of primary and secondary (6)
- Name the methods of creating perspective.
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1. shading/highlighting
2. placement of objects on the picture plance
3. overlapping - What is local color?
- Appearance under normal lighting
- What is a point where lines converge into the horizon?
- vanishing point
- Name two solvents.
- Water,oil
- What is aerial perspective? Which is also known as _____?
- perspective which takes into account how air(smoke, fog) affects appearance from distance; atmospheric perspective
- What is chiaroscuro?
- Dramatic contrast of light and dark
- Differentiate between organic and geometric (shapes/forms).
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Geometric - mathematical constructions (square)
Organic - unpredictable boundaries (freeform) - Define intensity.
- Brightness or purity of a color
- What does a long, curved line evoke?
- emotional restraint and controlled calm
- How is brown made?
- Mixing equal amt. of complements
- Unity is concerned with what 3 elements?
- Proximity, similarity, continuity
- Discuss proportion in life.
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Created by Greeks 2500 yrs ago. Golden mean - 3:5(used during Ren. Also)
Humans are 7 ½ heads
- What the drawing mediums?
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Pencil, charcoal, pen/ink, crayon, felt-tip pen
Hard = thin line, Pressure=value
- Undiluted ink is _____; diluted is _____.
- Opaque; translucent
- Discuss lithography.
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Image drawn w/ waxy pencil/crayon onto plate(stone, copper, aluminum)
Watered, inked. ink stays on oil
- What is a spray used to prevent smearing?
- Fixative
- Name the 2D processes.
- Drawing, painting, printmaking, photography
- What is isometric perspective?
- distant objects lean toward one or more vanishing points not in the painting
- What are the types of balance?
- Symmetrical, asymmetrical, approximate, radial
- What is arbitrary color?
- Color used for emotion
- What are secondary colors?
- Mixture of primary colors (3)
- What are the principles of composition? There are also known as ______.
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Means of organizing the elements; formal properties
(rhythm, balance, contrast, emphasis, variety, proportion, unity)
- What are the primary colors?
- red, blue, yellow
- How does an artist create movement?
- Rhythm
- Discuss gouache.
- Like watercolor but opaque
- Discuss tempera.
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Used widely before Ren, uses egg as binder
Water-based, quick dry, brilliant color
- Discuss screen.
- Image transferred to stretched fabric, ink forced thru w/ squeegee
- Name the printmaking techniques.
- Intaglio, relief, screen, lithography
- Discuss intaglio.
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Lines incised (engraving) , ink laid into groves
Can also be engraved in wax/copper (etching) then put in acid
- Discuss pottery.
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Natural materials: pinch, coil, slab (glued w/ slip)
Thrown - made with potters whole , fired in kiln
- Discuss jewelry.
- Pounded , shaped, cut from metal or lost wax casting
- Wood was used by whom?
- Northwest Coast Indians
- Antonio Gaudi did what?
- Spain, create organic buildings of cut stones
- Who was Christo?
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Surrounded objects w/ fabric
islands in FL - pink mesh
Pont Neuf - plastic