Art History

Front 1

What is Form?

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It refers to the visual elements of art and architecture.

Hint 1

forms are things u can touch and see

Front 2

What are the formal elements?

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Line, Color, Texture, Spatial Attributes, and Composition.

Hint 2

there are 5

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Formal and Formalist mean?

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"relating to form"

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A formal element(usually drawn or painted) made by more-or-less continuous mark.

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Line

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Probably the most basic visual(formal) element.

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Line

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____ can be clearly visible, or it may be implied, as when the movement of the eyes over the surface of the work of art follows a path that replicates a ____ or _____(s).

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Line

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The _____, ____, or ______ of an object is percieved as line, and it is this "line" that defines shape.

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outline, edge, silhouette

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Line can be angular(or_____), curvy (called_____), delicate, assertive, solid, or sketchy.

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geometric, curvilinear

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In art historical writing, the word _____ describes the artist's reliance on line to give form to the image.

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linear

Front 10

Color has several attributes, these include, ____, _____, and _____.

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Hue, Value, Saturation

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____ is what we think of when we hear the word color.

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Hue

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Red, yellow, and blue are primary ____ (colors) because they mix together and make the secondary colors.

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hues

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The primary colors are....

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Red, Yellow, and Blue

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The secondary colors are....

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Purple, Orange, and Green

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Red, orange, and yellow are regarded as ____ colors.

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warm

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Warm colors are colors that ____ toward us.

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advance

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Green, blue, and purple are called ___ colors.

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cool

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Cool colors seem to _____.

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recede

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The word _____ refers to the general range of colors used in a work.

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Palette

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A painting in greens, blues, and purples can be described as being of a ____ ____.

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cool palette

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A painting of reds, oranges, and yellows can be described as being of a ____ _____.

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warm palette

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The use of more than one color is ______.

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Polychromy

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Polychromy means "____ ____"

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many color

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_____ is the relative degree of lightness or darkness of a given color.

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Value

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_____ is created by the amount of light reflected from an object's surface.

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Value

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Which has a deeper value, dark green or light green?

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dark green

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You see only value in ____-____-_____ reproductions of colored objects.

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black-and-white

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A drawing made w' just black ink possesses only ____, not ____ or _____ of the attributes of color.

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value/ hue/ saturation

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Monochramatic means "____ _____"

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one color

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Referred to sometimes as Intensity?

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Saturation

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Saturation is sometimes referred to as ______.

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Intensity

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______ is a color's quality of brightness or dullness.

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Saturation

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A color described as ______ saturated looks vivid and pure; a hue of ____ saturation may look muddy.

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highly/ low

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_____, another attribute of form, is the tactile (or touched-percieved) quality of a surface.

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Texture

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Words like smooth, polished, rough, grainy, pitted, oily, and the like describe what formal element?

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Texture

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Texture relates to two aspects of an art object: the texture of the artwork's _____ surface and the texture of the _____ but _____ surface of the object that the work represents.

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actual/ implied/ imaginary

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Spatial Attributes (another formal element)that includes the following ____, ____, and ____.

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Space, Mass, Volume

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_____ is what an object occupies.

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Space

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a spatial attribute

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Sculpture and architecture use ___ and __-____ space.

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actual/ 3-dimensional

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Space is represented _______, when artists represent recession into the distance on two-dimensional, flat surfaces(walls, paper, or canvas)by various means in composition.

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illusionistically

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____ and ____ are the two spatial attributes that are properties of 3-dimensional things.

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Mass/ Volume

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_____ is matter( whether sculpture or architecture) that takes up space; it can be solid or hollow.

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Mass

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_____ is the space organized by mass, whether by enclosing it or partitioning it.

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Volume

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_______(a formal element) is the organization, or arrangement, of form in a work of art.

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Composition

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The possibilities for ______ any subject are nearly endless.

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composing

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The choices an artist makes about how to position (compose)various elements usually reflect the tastes of the _____ and the ______ the work of art was created as well as the _______.

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time, place, artist's personal sesibilities

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Very general terms that can characterize _______ are balanced, static, asymmetrical, dynamic, and the like.

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compositions

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A specialized aspect of composition is ____ _____ (spatial recession), in which the three-dimensional world is represented in two dimensions on a flat surface, or _____ _____.

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Pictorial Depth, Picture Plane

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The are "behind" the picture plane is called the ____ ____ and contains three "zones": ____, _____, and _____.

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Picture Space/ Fore-Ground, Middle Ground, Ground Plane

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Various techniques for conveying a sense of pictorial depth have been devised and preferred by artists in dif' ____ and at dif' _____.

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cultures, times

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In Western art, the use of various systems of ____ has created highly convincing illusions of recession into space.

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Perspective

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In other cultures, _____ is not the most favored way to treat objects in space.

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perspective