Visual Experience Chapter 1 & 2 Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Art | the application of imagination, skill, and style to matter, movement, and sound that goes beyond what is purely practical |
| Traditional Art | Works that have form, style, and subject matter that are familiar to the public as art. |
| Art Criticism | A systematic discussion of characteristics of an artwork, usually involving four stages: description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation. |
| Expressionism | The broad term that describes emotional art, most often boldly executed and making free use of distortion and symbolic or invented color. More specifically, Expressionism refers to individual and group styles originating in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
| Medium | the materials used to create an artwork |
| Abstract Art | A trend in painting and sculpture in the twentieth century. Abstract art seeks to break away from traditional representation of physical objects. It explores the relationships of forms and colors, whereas more traditional art represents the world in recognizable images. |
| Philosophy of Art | The study of art that involves asking and answering all kinds of questions about art, how people respond to it, and how it relates to our lives |
| Composition | an arrangement of the elements of art using the principles of design |
| Subject | The things that are represented in an artwork....such as people or objects or shapes and forms. |
| Aesthetic Experience | the experience of seeing and enjoying something for its own sake, or for its beauty and pleasurable qualities |
| Design | a drawing, plan or sketch made to serve as a pattern from which to work |
| Formalism | A way of using the elements of art and the principles of design to evaluate art. |
| Elements of Art | Line, shape, form, color, value, space, and texture. The building blocks the artist works with to create an artwork. |
| Principles of Design | artistic guidelines that help you combine the elements of art.. |
| Imitationalism | focuses on realistic representation |
| Professional Critic | use their education, knowledge, or experience to evaluate art. |
| Art World | Artists, dealers, collectors, art critics, museum directors, and art teachers involved in the production, selling, collection, display, writing, and teaching about art. |
| Credit Line | A Listing Of Important Facts About An Artwork. |
| Criteria | standards or rules by which things can be judged |
| ceramic | object made of clay and fired in a kiln to a permanant form. Ceramics are often decorated with galzes and fired again to fuse the glaze to the clay body |
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