Art As A Phenomenon Of The World - Flashcards

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The two dimensional boundaries of which are deafined by line or changes in value or color.

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Shape

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an object that can be defined in dimensions (height, width and depth)

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Form

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the size of an object or artwork relative to another object or artwork or to a system of measurement

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Scale

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the space filled or enclosed by a enclosed by a three-dimensional object

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Volume

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a volume that has or gives the illusion of having weight, density, and bulk

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Mass

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art imagery that departs from recognizable images from the natural world

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Abstract

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a raised form on a largely flat background

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Relief

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Has more depth and looks more 3-dimensional than a usual form of relief

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High Relief

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Refers to something that has a low-carved depth

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Bas-Relief (Low Relief)

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the center of the interest or activity in a work of art, often drawing the viewer's attention to the most important elements

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Focal Point

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an imaginary line showing the center of a shape, volume or composition

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Axis

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A volume or an implied volume that doesn't have solid structure

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Open Volume

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An empty space given shape by its surround

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Negative Space

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Texture that subverts or can create repulsive feelings due to the strangeness or reversed/subverted reality

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Subversive Texture

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An artist belonging to the [BLANK] movement in the 1920's and, later whose art was inspired by dreams and the subconscious

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Surrealist

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The lightness and/or darkness of a plane or area

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Value

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a characteristic way in which an artist or group of artists uses a visual language to give work an identifiable form of visual expression

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Style

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Italian for "light and dark", a method of applying value to a two-dimensional piece pf artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form.

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Chiaroscuro

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the principle of drawing attention to particular content in work

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Emphasis

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using lines and overlapping lines to create value and more a sense of depth and form

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Hatching and Cross-Hatching

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the material on or from which an artist chooses to make a work of art.

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Medium

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the regular or ordered repetition of elements in the work

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Rhythm

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Use of shades of color and clarity to create the illusion pf depth. Closer objects have warmer tones and clear outline, while objects set further away are cooler and become hazy.

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Atmospheric Perspective

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The point or points in a work of art at which imaginary sight lines appear to converge suggesting depth

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Vanishing Points

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In perspective systems, imaginary sight, lines extruding from forms to the vanishing point

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Orthogonals

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A system using a diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

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Isometric Perspective

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the point or points in a work of art at which imaginary sight lines appear to converge, suggesting depth.

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Vanishing Point

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a perspective system with a single vanishing point on the horizon

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One Point Perspective

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an image meant to be a symbolic reminder of one's mortality

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Momento Mori

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A technique where the paints onto freshly applied plaster. From the Italian language meaning: "fresh".

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Fresco

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A color lighter in value than it purest state

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Tints

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A color darker in value than its purest state

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Shades

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Having one or more values of only one color

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Monochromatic

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The degree of purity of a color

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Saturation

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An early 20th century art movement that featured the use of pure saturated colors in unexpected combinations.

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Fauvism

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Colors opposite one another on the color wheel

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Complementary Colors

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Colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel.

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Analogous Colors

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A description of color based on our associations with warmth or coolness

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Temperature

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The surface or background onto which an artist paints or draws

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Ground

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Colors that our minds create based on the information we can perceive

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Optical Color

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A late 19th century art movement based on the optical effects of small dots and dashes of pure unmixed colors.

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Pointillism

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Divisions of strips or banks on which figures stand to provide a readable narrative or story

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Registers

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Italian for "serpentine figure", a human figure which spirals around a central axis, so that the lower limbs face in one direction and the torso in the opposite direction, in a graceful yet contorted pose

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Figura Serpentinata

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An artwork created by the assembling and arrangement of objects a specific location

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Installation

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A work involving the human body, usually including the artist in front of an audience.

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Performance Art

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Three-dimensional art that moves, compelled by air, currents, motors, or people

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Kinetic Sculpture

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Lasting for only a brief time, fleeting, momentary

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Ephemeral

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The imposition of order and harmony on a design

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Unity

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An object found by an artist and present, with little or no alteration, as part of a work or as a finished work of art itself.

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Found Object

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The diversity of different ideas, media, and formal elements within a work of art

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Variety

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Where the two sides of an object when divided by an axis are the same

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Symmetrical

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[BLANK] is achieved through the careful distribution of uneven elements

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Asymmetrical Balance

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A piece that radiates along a central point

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Radial Balance

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The size of an object or artwork or artwork relative to another object or artwork, or to a system of measurement

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Scale

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having massive or impressive scale

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Monumental

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the manipulation of size and position of figures or objects within a composition to suggest rank, importance, or significance

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Hierarchy of Scale

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the relationship in size between a work's individual parts and the whole

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Proportion

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a period in the history of Greek art, c. 480-323 BCE

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Classical Period

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an idealized mathematical system proportion for depictions of the human body.

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Canon of Proportions

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a period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the 14th to the 17th centuries.

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Renaissance

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an arrangement of predictably repeated elements

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Pattern

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Any repeated element in a pattern

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Motif

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the regular or ordered repetition of elements in the work

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Rhythm

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Repetition that regularly increases or decreases in frequency creates a [BLANK] as the eye moves faster or slower across the surface of the work

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Progressive Rhythm

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the opposite of emphasis; it draws attention away from particular areas of an artwork -

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Subordination

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the principle of drawing attention to particular content within a work of art

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Emphasis

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a print created from an incised piece of wood

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Woodcut