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Vincent Van Gogh "Starry Night" 1889 Expressionism |
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Piet Mondriaan "Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow" 1930 De Stijl |
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Monet "Water Lilies" 1916 Impressionism |
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Utamaro Kitagawa, "Reading Beauty" 1806, Japan |
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Kenoujak "The Enchanted Owl" 1960, Inuit Shamanistic Abstraction |
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Emily Carr "Indian Church" 1929 Canadian Expressionism |
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Tom Thomson "The West Wind" 1917 |
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Neanderthal, eagle claw pendants or beads, Croatia 132 984 BC |
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"Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the name of Senwosret II" Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 1887 BC |
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Bill Reid gold and fossilized ivory bracelet 1964, Haida, Canada |
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What is Graphic Design |
Graphic design is art that organizes and communicates information with the support of images. Adobe Illustrator is a program used to create designs through vector drawing. Designers follow rules to ensure legibility like creating a place for the eye to rest, justification, and an easy-to-read font. |
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What is Vector Drawing |
The use and manipulation of enclosed shapes |
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What is Sculpture |
Sculpture is art that is concerned with three dimensional space. When sculpting it is important to wrap work in a damp cloth, and cover with plastic so the clay remains moist and malleable. When complete, it is left to dry into "greenware" which is very fragile. Then it is fired in a kiln and later called "Bisque." Now you can put colour and glaze, and fire it again, so it turns to glass. |
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What is Painting |
Painting is an art with colour. In watercolor, you don't use white, but you preserve the white of the page. To make a colour lighter you add water, and to darken it you use the colour's complementary colour. You begin a painting by blocking the main colours and shapes first. |
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What are Complementary Colours |
Complementary Colours are secondary colours with a primary colour that was not used to make the secondary colour. |
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What are Tertiary Colours |
Tertiary Colours are variations of secondary colours. |
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What is Drawing |
Drawing is the foundation of art. It is essential to use a reference when drawing. The images in our heads are simplifies symbols of the real world. When drawing you first look at the big shapes, then small shapes, and finally detail. |
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What is Printmaking |
printmaking is art reproduces to copies. We did lino block printing, where an image is carved into a block. The part of the block that is not carved will pick up ink and print. A good print is 50 % black and 50% white. |
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Who is Kenojuak Ashevak |
Kenojuak Ashevak is from Cape Dorset, Nunavut. She is a very famous printmaker,
and he work celebrates the natural world. Her art is usually of animals in transformed and magical manifestations. She is the artist of "The Enchanted Owl" |
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What is Style |
Style is the way a work of art looks. (Realistic, abstract, no relation to the real world, etc) |
