1. Art Fundamentals (1) Academic Decathlon PCS

2. Line, Shape, Form *Line: A path of a point moving through space. -Solid? Interrupted? -Horizontal: Suggests peace and tranquility. -Vertical: Move the eyes upwards (N.B. Gothic architecture) -Curved: Indicates action, motion, and chaos *Shape: Space that defines the two- dimensional area. *Form: Objects that are three-dimensional (with length, width, and depth) -Organic v. Geometric -Positive Space: Objects in the artwork -Negative Space: Area around these objects that frames them

3. Is this a shape or a form?

4. Is this geometric or organic?

5. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s The Entombment (Rome) *Explore the positive and negative space here. *What shapes/forms are constructed? *What is Caravaggio doing with line?

6. Perspective *Perspective: The illusion of depth created by manipulating line, shape, form, light, and use of space. -Linear -Aerial/Atmospheric *Vanishing point(s): Geometric location on the horizon used to construct linear perspective *Renaissance: In Western Art, perspective indicated the evolution from Medieval art to the Renaissance, stemming from scientific discovery and movement away from purely religious, iconographic depictions of the world.

7. Pietro Perugino’s fresco at the Sistine Chapel’s North Wall (in Vatican)

8. Unknown Italian artist from the 13 th century (Vatican)

9. Michelangelo da Buonarotti’s Creation of Adam (center)

10. Color/Hue *Hue: The technical name of the color -Primary (blue, red, yellow) -Secondary (orange, green, violet) -Tertiary (six) *Value: measure of darkness in a hue or gray *Neutral: white, black, and grays in between -These cannot be hues *Intensity: purity of a color (how mixed is it?) *Local color: “true” color as seen in normal daylight *Optical color: the effect that lighting has on the color (night, fog, candlelight, etc.) *Texture: How things feel or how we think they would feel if touched

11. Color Wheel (hues only)

12. Robert Rauschenberg’s Untitled (NY Met)

13. Georges-Pierre Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Louvre)

14. Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (Musee Monet, Paris)

15. William Turner’s Shipwreck of the Minotaur (Lisbon)

16. William Turner’s Landscape in the Fog (Berlin)