1. Art I Vocabulary
EOA, POD, etc.

2. Still-Life:
A drawing or painting of inanimate objects Ex: vases, flowers, instruments

3. COMPOSITION in fine arts:
The act of organizing the elements and principles of art into a harmoniously unified whole
John William Waterhouse; The Lady of Shallot

4. Medium/Media in fine arts:
The material(s) that an artist uses to create an art work.
EX:
When you paint a picture in acrylic paint, the medium is acrylic.
If your composition is made up of acrylic, photographs, and hand-made papers, you have created a MIXED-MEDIA composition.

5. The Elements of Art

6. The building blocks an artist works with to create an artwork.
Elements of Art
The building blocks an artist works with to create an artwork.
They Include:
Line
Shape
Form
Color
Value
Texture
Space

7. Line
A continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool (writing utensil).
Examples:

8. Line Types:
Descriptive: outlines, contour lines, single lines, hatching, crosshatching
Implied: A line that is suggested or inferred, rather than completely drawn out.
Expressive: line personalities (we associate certain feelings with a line’s shape, movement, & direction

9. OUTLINES: lines that show outer edges of shapes (appears flat)
Descriptive Line
OUTLINES: lines that show outer edges of shapes (appears flat)

10. Descriptive Line
CONTOUR lines define outer edges (outlines) & inner surface detail of a shape

11. Descriptive Lines
Stippling

12. Implied Lines

13. Expressive Lines:

14. Shape Shape: 2-dimensional; Can be drawn on paper, painted on a canvas
2 Types of Shapes:
Organic Geometric

15. Form Form: -3-dimensional -Encloses volume
-has height, width, and depth

17. COLOR
Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, Blue (make every other color on wheel when properly mixed)
Secondary: Violet, Orange, Green
Intermediate: the colors between the primary & secondary colors (ex: Yellow-Orange)

18. Warm Colors: red, yellow, orange Cool Colors: blue, green, violet

19. Complementary Colors
Colors that are directly across from one another on the color wheel . They go well, or compliment, one another.
For Example:
Red & Green
Orange & Blue
Yellow & Violet

20. Analagous Colors
Colors that are side-by-side, or neighbors, on the color wheel.
They go well together.

21. Monochromatic
The full value range of one color. In other words, there are different versions of 1 color because of the addition of black & white.

22. VALUE Value is the range from light to dark ex: Shading in a drawing
Value/Shading makes an art work appear to be more 3-dimensional and realistic

23. Shading Examples:

24. Benefits of Shading:

27. TEXTURE
How a surface feels, or in art, how the surface appears to feel to the touch
Simulated Texture: texture can be seen/imagined, but not felt
Actual Texture: the texture you see can be felt

28. SPACE The areas between, around, above, below, or within something
Positive & Negative Space:
Negative Empty or void space, space around an object or form; also called white space.
Positive Space in an artwork that is filled with something, such as lines, designs, color, or shapes.
Linear Perspective: a method of showing depth in art

29. Positive & Negative Space Examples:

30. Japanese Notan

31. 1-pt Linear Perspective:

32. The Principles of Design

33. The way the elements of art are used.
Principles of Design
Unity
Variety
Emphasis
Rhythm & Movement
Balance
Pattern
Proportion
The way the elements of art are used.

34. UNITY
A principle of design related to the wholeness that results from the successful combination of the component elements of an artwork.

35. VARIETY
Including various elements into the artwork to offset unity and add interest

36. EMPHASIS
One element creates more attention than anything else in the composition
This dominant element is usually the focal point and adds unity to the composition

37. RHYTHM
Combining elements to produce the appearance of movement in an artwork.
May be done by repetition, alternation, or progression of an element.

38. MOVEMENT
the arrangement of parts in an artwork to create a sense of motion to the viewer’s eye through the work

39. BALANCE
The arrangement of visual elements to create stability in an artwork
4 balance arrangements: asymmetrical, symmetrical, approximately symmetrical, and radial

40. Balance Continued…
Asymmetrical
Symmetrical

41. Approximately Symmetrical
Balance Continued…
Approximately Symmetrical
Radial Symmetry

42. PATTERN
The repetition of elements or combinations of elements in a recognizable organization

43. PROPORTION
The size relationship of parts to one another and to a whole.

44. ART HISTORY: ARTISTS ART MOVEMENTS Gustav Klimt Chuck Close
Wassily Kandinsky
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque
Jackson Pollock
Georges Seurat
Salvador Dali
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein
Caravaggio
Art Nouveau
Photo-Realism
Abstract/Non-Figurative
Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
Pointillism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Baroque

45. GUSTAV KLIMT
ART NOUVEAU
French for “new art;” This type of art has flowing curves, swirling lines & a delicate feel. Figures are elongated & distorted, and plant forms serve as inspiration. There are brilliantly colored areas of pattern as well.
The Kiss, 1908

46. PHOTO-REALISM Chuck Close
Realist paintings and sculptures involving thorough reproduction of detail. In painting the results were nearly photographic — in fact made from photographs (although painters had been working from photographs since the early days of photography).
Although its center was in the United States, the Photo-Realism movement was also strong in Europe from the late 1960s into the 1970s, where his type of illusionism is known principally as superrealism.
American Photo-Realistic painter, photographer
Born July 5, 1940 in Monroe, Washington
BA, University of Washington in Seattle; MFA Yale University
Known for large scale portraits
Spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him paralyzed, but he has continued to work

48. Consists of lines, shapes, colors
WASSILY KANDINSKY
ABSTRACT/ NON-FIGURATIVE
Art that does not represent or imitate external reality or the objects of nature
Consists of lines, shapes, colors
abstract artist
Born Dec. 16th, 1866 in Moscow, Russia
Practiced law prior to becoming a painter
Wrote art & geometry books
Known for use of brilliant colors & geometric shapes
Had Synaesthesia (a neural condition where 2 senses cross over/combine)

49. PABLO PICASSO
CUBISM
Analytical: The first phase of Cubism (1907 to 1912)
reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts and then tried to reconcile these essentially three-dimensional parts with the two-dimensional picture plane. Multiple perspectives of an item shown.
Color subdued--paintings nearly monochromatic.
Leading cubists: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, ) and Georges Braque (French, )
Synthetic: grew out of Analytical Cubism and the experimental nature of Collage
developed through a construction process rather than the analytical process and deconstruction of Analytical Cubism
more decorative and appealing and somewhat easier to interpret.

50. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
JACKSON POLLOCK
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Rapidly painted on huge canvases
Shows feelings and emotions
Free-flowing; non-geometrical
Painted with large brushes or drip & splatter method
Art appears to be by accident or chance—more about process than overall outcome
The expressive method of painting was often considered as important as the painting itself.

51. GEORGES SEURAT
POINTILLISM
the theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together

52. SALVADOR DALI
SURREALISM a 20th-century art form in which an artist or writer combines unrelated images or events in a very strange and dreamlike way

53. ANDY WARHOL
POP ART Art style from the 1950’s in which imagery from everyday life is used as the subject matter

54. prominently 17th century Art appeals to the senses in dramatic ways
CARAVAGGIO
BAROQUE ART
prominently 17th century
Art appeals to the senses in dramatic ways
Main qualities: grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, vitality, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and a tendency to blur distinctions between the various arts.

55. Art Media & Techniques Screen printing Mixed media Collage Grid method
Pencil
Colored pencils
Chalk pastels
Charcoal
Oil pastels
Pen & ink
Marker
Watercolor
Acrylic
tempera
Screen printing
Mixed media
Collage
Grid method
Linear perspective drawing using VP’s, horizon, and orthogonal lines