Arts 2001 Ch 2 - 3

Electromagnetic energy that, in certain wave-lengths, stimulates the eyes and brain.

Light all around us in our world.

Lightness/darkness within a hue.
It is used to represent various levels of light that reflects off objects.

White and black (the value extremes), with the continuum of grey tones in between.

Lighter, darker, or different values of a color.

It is another word for color. Pure state of color in the spectrum.

Light-dark gradations that can depict objects in space. Italian for "light-dark".

True! Color is visible in refracted light.

A range of colors that is visible when a prism breaks a light beam into a spectrum of colors (a rainbow).
Think Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

A breakdown of white light into components of ROYGBIV.

The brightness and color of light that is bounced off of objects in the enviroment.

Adding black to a color.

Adding white to a color.

Brightness and dullness of color.
Also called chroma and saturation.

Components of light that affects us directly by modifying our thoughts, our moods, our actions, and our health.

Color that is created by mixing light rays.

Any system of color mixing which the addition of more colors gives a duller result.

Powdered substances ground into oil, acrylic polymer, or others to make paint.

A circular arrangement of the hues of the spectrum.

Seeing colors differently depending on the enviroment/surrounding.

A surface characteristic that is tactile (touchable) or visual.

Rendering of illusionary texture on a surface or ground.
Is simulated, abstracted, or inverted.

Textures mimicking reality.
Ex: In realism paintings.

Textures that have been distorted, simplified, or exaggerated from an actual texture.

An imaginary surface quality (texture) created by the artist.
Ex: Textures in Van Gogh's paintings.

An arrangement with repeated visual forms.

Patterns that occur all around us.
Ex: In leaves and flowers, in rocks and crystal formations, in wave patterns and so on.

Surrealism in an art movement during the early 20th century in Europe, that was influenced by the work of Sigmund Frued.

They are 2d visual forms.

Geometric 2d visual forms that are unique and have no simple defining name.
Ex: Star clusters, patch colors on a cats fur.

An area of occupied space.

A group of methods for creating the illusion of depth on a flat picture plane.

Light, bleached out, fuzzy handling of distant forms to make them seem far away.

Parallel lines that appear to converge as they recede.

Viewers eye level in a picture, determining what the viewer perceives as "above" or "below".

"The Morning Anxiety" by Giorgio de Chirico

"Black Rainbow" by Cai Guo-Qiang

"Nude Descending Staircase (No. 2)" by Marcel Duchamp

Arrangement of the formal elements in a work of art.

Results from placing elements so that their visual weights seem evenly distributed.

Visual weight that is evenly distributed throughout the composition.

The careful distribution of uneven elements.

All elements in the composition that visually radiate outward from a central point.

The repetition of carefully placed elements separated by intervals.

Some visual elements that are systematically repeated with a standard interval in between.

Different elements that are repeatedly placed side by side, which produces a regular and anticipated sequence.

A perceived pattern that has irregular repetition of elements or irregular spacing between elements.

"Churning of the Ocean Milk"

The size of one part in relation to another within an artwork.

The size of something in relation to what we assume to be normal.

One or more focal points in an artwork.

Lesser focal points in an artwork.

When the artist organizes all the compositional elements so that they visually work together as a whole.

Different visual elements in a composition that add interest without disturbing its unity.

"Electronic Superhighway: Continental US, Alaska, Hawaii" by Nam June Paiks

"For the Love of God" by Damien Hirst

Drawings that are produced by a thin stylus made of silver that leaves marks on paper/wood coated with layers of gesso as a ground.

The process of making multiple artworks, usually on paper, using a printing plate, woodblock, stone or stencil.

Creating of lines on an area (plate), using acid that eats into exposed surfaces.
Ex: "The Weeping Woman" by Pablo Picasso

"Marylin Monroe" by Andy Warhol

A substance which pigments are blended into and holds the components together once it dries.

Unity, variety, balance, emphasis, contrast, repetition, rhythm, scale and proportion.

True! Design addresses the basic human needs for meaning and order.

The first African-American painter who created dynamic cubism art that portrayed African-American life.

"Going Home" by Jacob Lawrence

Mixed media that is organized or placed in a specific space.

A Korean-American artist who is the father of video art. He artworks involved using the power of broadcasting and media art.

A Dutch graphic artist who is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.

The course of movement, as in horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

Lines that can express a range of emotions:
precision, fragility, roughness, anger, refinement, whimsy, vigor, and so on.

Lines that are rapid, sketchy marks that mimic movement of the human eyes when examining a subject.