| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Visual Literacy | Recognizing how art communicates to you |
| Calligraphy | Fine art of handwriting |
| Sublime | Captured an immensity so large that it could hardly be comprehended by the imagination |
| Subject Matter | What the image literally depicts |
| Words/Images | WORDS-refers to the world in the abstract. IMAGES-represent the world or reproduce its appearance |
| Form | Everything from the materials used to make the work to the way it employs the variou formal elements |
| Composition | The ways in which the elements are organized |
| Content | What the work of art expresses or means |
| Ethnocentric | Imposes upon the art of another culture the meanings and prejudices of our own |
| Iconography | The study or description of such visual images or symbolic systems |
| Impressionism | A mode of painting that dominated late 19th century art in the western world |
| Surrealism | A style of art in which the reality of the dream or the subconcious mind is seen as more "real" than the surface reality of everyday life |
| imagination | An instrument of transformation |
| Genre Painting | Such depictions of everyday life |
| Aesthetic | Concieved to stimulate a sense of beauty in viewer |
| Vanitas | The frivolous quality of human existence (remember) |
| Line | One of the most fundamental elements of art |
| Outline | An important feature of line is that it indicates the edge of two or 3D shapes or forms |
| Contour Line | A line that creates volumes that make them appear to us as they curve away |
| Implied Line | A line that depends upon perception |
| Kinetic | Works that move, rely on our ability to remember the path that particular elements in the work have followed |
| Expressive line | Lines that express powerful emotions |
| Analytic Line | Precise, controlled, mathematically rigorous, logical, and rationally organized. |
| Picture Plane | The surface of a 2-D image |
| Overlap | Creates Space |
| Scale | Size relationship between 2 or more subjects |
| Linear Perspective | Scientific method for creating space |
| Two-Point linear perspective | Create a more likely composition, recedes diagonal directions from the viewer |
| Axonometric Projections | Employed by architects and engineers. Have the advantage of translating space in such a way that distortions of scale common in linear perspective. 3 types are isometric, dimetric, trimetric |
| Foreshortening | The dimensions of the closer extremities are adjusted in order to make up for the distortion created by the point of view |
| Properties of Color | Hue, Value, and intensity |
| Hue | Family of colors (tint) |
| Value | Lightness and darkness |
| Intensity | Brightness and dullness (saturation) |
| Modeling | The use of chiaroscuro to represent light falling across a curved or rounded surface |
| Chiaroscuro | A chief tool used to render the effects of light |
| Primary colors | Red, yellow, blue |
| Secondary colors | Orange, green, violet |
| analogous color scheme | Colors that are beside each other on the color wheel |
| Complementary | Colors that are opposite on the color wheel |
| Local Color | The color of objects viewed close up in even lighting conditions |
| Perceptual Color | Impressionist use, how lights change the color you see |
| Optical Mix | Planned, using human eye to mix color |
| Arbitrary color | Picking the colors you want, it does not have to be what the object really is |
| Texture | Refers to the surface quality of a work |
| Pattern | Is a repetitive motif or design |
| optical painting | created to give the illusion of movement |
| Visual Texture | Creates a visual scene made to look like the texture of the images |
| Visual Weight | The heaviness or lightness of the shapes and forms arranged in the compositioin |
| Absolute Symmetry | Each side is exactly the same |
| Asymmetrical balance | have 2 apparently balanced halves that are not mirror images of one another |
| Radial Balance | Everything radiates outward from a central point |
| Proportion | Size relationship between the parts of a figure and the whole figure (charlie Brown) |
| Postmodernism | Parts can never form a unified whole |
| Rythm | Repeated over and over again in a composition |
| Scale | Size relationship betwen 2 or more objects |
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