Chapter 2: Visual Elements Vocab Words
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shinebright1 on March 13, 2011
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The Art of Seeing
Paul Zelanski & Mary Pat Fisher
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Calligraphy | the art of fine writing |
| Negative | unfilled space |
| Positive | filled space |
| Edges | where two areas treated differently meet |
| Contour | lines that empasize the form and define its three-dimensionality |
| Earthworks | large-scale enviroment-altering projects in which the surface of the earth becomes the artist's canvas |
| Eyelines | the implied lines along which a subject's eyes appear to be looking |
| Decorative | line is that which provides surface embellishments |
| Descriptive | lines that tell us the physical nature of the object we are seeing and how it exists in space |
| Contour Line | an imaginary line defining the outer boundaries of an object but not its internal modeling, color, shading, or texture |
| Mass | solid content |
| Volume | the amount of space an object takes up |
| Visual Weight | the apparent heaviness of an area of design |
| Hatching | dark parallel lines that are drawn close together |
| Cross-Hatching Lines | crossed parallel lines that are drawn close together |
| Gestural | lines that directly reveal the artist's arm at work |
| Shape | two-dimensional areas |
| Form | three-dimensional areas |
| Reliefs | A sculptured work in which an image is developed outward or inward from a two-dimensional surface. |
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