Art 300

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Abstract

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The less a work resembles real things in the real world. Reducing the world to it's essential qualities

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Background

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The area farthest from the viewer

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Basic Forms

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Cube, Sphere, Pyramid, Cone, Cylinder

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Balance

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A sense of equilibrium achieved through implied weight, attention, or attrition, by manipulating the visual elements within an artwork

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Chiaroscuro

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Modeling of form by means of light and dark values.

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Collage

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An art form in which bits of paper, cloth, or other materials are glued onto a flat surface

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Color

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How we identify wavelengths of sunlight as red, blue, green, ect. having the physical properties of hue, intensity, and value

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Content

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The expression, signifigance, or asthetic value of a work of art. The sensory, subjective, psychological or emotional properties we feel in a work.

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Concave

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A recessed area or plane

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Contour

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The precieved edges of any three-dimensional form

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Contour line

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In drawing and painting, the line that follows and emphasizes the contours of 3D forms

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Contrast

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The changes in value: high contrast equals sharp edges and low contrast equals soft edges

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Convergence

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Coming together - lines or shapes that cross and converge

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Craftsmanship

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Aptitude, skill or quality workmanship in use of tooles and materials also refers to cleanliness and care

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Cross Contour

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Modeling with line around or across the form to show mass or volume

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cross hatch

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Toning or texturing with short parallel strokes. Closely spaced lines that intersect one another to create modulated tonal effects

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dominance

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the principle of organization where certain elements assume more importance than others in the same composition or design. Some features are emphasized and others are subordinated

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Economy

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Distilling the image to the basic essentials for clarity of presentation

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Elements of Art

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Line, Shape, Value, Texture, and Color - The basic ingredients the artist uses seperately or in comination to produce artistic imagery

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Foreground

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The forms or figures that appear nearest to the viewer

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Foreshortening

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A technique for producing the illusion of an object's extension into space by contracting it's form

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Form

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The organization or inventive arragements of all the visual elements according to the principles that will develop unity n the artwork. The total appearance or organization

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Format

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The shape of your drawing, the space you will fill- square, horizontal, vertical

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Formal Analysis

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an evaluation of elements and principals that form a successful piece. formal analysis does not deal with content

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Harmony

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The quality of relating the visual elements of a composition. Harmony is achieved by repetition of characteristics that are the same or similar. these cohesive factors create pleasing interaction

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High Key

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A composition where all the values are relatively light

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Highlights

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Those areas that represent he lightest value

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Hue

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The color quality identified by te name of a specific color such as blue, red, or yellow

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Line

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A mark made by an implement as it is drawn across a surface

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low key

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a composition where all the values are relatively dark

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mass

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in graphic arts, the illusion of weight or density

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Medium

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The materials and tools used by the artist to create the visual elements percieved by the viewer. the medium deals with the materials used such as charcoal, graphite, ect...

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modeling

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The change from light to dark across a surface; a technique for creating spatial illuison

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Movement

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Eye travel directed by visual pathways in a work of art

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negative space

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the space surrounding a positive shape; sometimes referred to as ground, empty space, intersperse, field or void

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One point perspective

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The illusion that all parallel lines that recede into space converge at a single point on the horizon, called the vanishing point

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Vanishing point

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In one point perspective the single spot on the horizon where all parallel lines converge

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volume

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A measurable area of defined or occupied space

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wash

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A transparent tone using a liquid media

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Pattern

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The logical repetition of certain forms or designs

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Perspective

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A technique for giving an illusion of space to a flat surface

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picture plane

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the flat surface area of the drawing

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pointilism

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a system of dots to attain light and dark values

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positive space

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the shape of an object that serves as the subject for a drawing.

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porportion

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Comparative relationship between parts of a whole and between the parts and the whole

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repetition

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the use of the same visual effect a number of times in the same composition. (May produce a dominance of one visual idea, a feeling of harmonious relationships...ect.)

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Representational

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The more a work resembles the real world. The more realistic

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Rhythm

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A continuance, a flow, or a sense of movement achieved by repitition or regulated visual units; the use of measured accents

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scale

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The relative size of an object compared to a normal size

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shape

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An area that stands out from the spacenext to or around it because of definded or implied boundary, or because of differences of value, color, or texture

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space

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the interval, or measurable distance between points of images

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technique

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The way the achieved the visual elements, the formal process

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texture

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The surface character of a material that can be experienced through touch or the illusion of touch. Texture is produced by natural forces or through an artists manipulation of the art elements

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Tonal Categories

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Highlights, light, shadow, reflected light, and cast shadow

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two point perspective

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A system for depicting three dimensional depth on a two dimensional surface, depending upon the illusion that all prarllel lines conversge at two points on the horizon

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Unity

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The result of bringing the elements of art into the appropriate ratio between harmony and variety to give a sense of oneness

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Value

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The gradation of tone from light to dark, from white through grey to black

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Value Scale

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The gradual range from white through gray to black