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51 Cards in this Set
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Visual Power |
What makes a work of art important enough to notice it. Color, use of shapes, textures, the look of the thing that catches your eye. Requires the vocabulary of Art Historians to understand. |
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Artist: Annie Mae Young Title: Work Clothes Quilt with Center Medallion of Stripes |
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Elements of Art |
Visual Elements (Line, Light, and color) manipulated by artists to make a work visually powerful. |
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Shape |
A 2D (flat) form which is either geometric or Organic |
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Geometric Shape |
Shape produced with the aid of a mechanical instrument to insure precision of regularity |
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Organic Shape |
Irregular Shape, produced without the aid of a mechanical instrument. |
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Center Passage |
Free hand, shapes are not absolutely rectangular. Combines a sense of plan with a living sense of irregularity. Bold reds, combination of geometric and organic shapes. |
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Warm Colors |
Red, Yellow, and Orange |
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Cool Colors |
Blue, Green |
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Artist: Florine Smith Title: Four Block Strips Year: c. 1975 Materials: Corduroy |
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Artist: Annie E. Pettway Year: c.1935 Materials: Cotton and Wool |
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Principles of Design |
Principles of Arrange ment (rhytm, balance, etc.) applied to the elements of art to make a visually powerful composition. |
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Rhythm |
Visual Units within a composition that are repeated for the purpose of moving the eye. |
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Subject Matter |
The content of the work of art; that which is represented in the work who/what is it about. |
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Types of Subject Matter: |
1. History 2. Portraiture 3. Landscape 4. Still Life 5/ Genre 6. Nonrepresentational |
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History Subject Matter |
Religious and Literary subjects and subjects depicting events dealing prior to the creation of the work of art |
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Artist: Nicolas Poussin Title: Holy Family Year: 1648 Materials: Oil on Canvas (Mark of a professional artist in the 18th. 19th. and 20th century) History Subject Matter |
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Artist: J.A.D. Ingres Title: Apotheosis of Homer Year: 1827 Materials: Oil on Canvas History Subject Matter |
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Tempera |
Paint made from pigments bound with egg yolk. |
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Vellum |
Calf Skin prepared as surface for paimting/writing |
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Artist: Unknown Title: St. Matthew from the "Ebbo Gospels" Year: c. 816-835 Materials: Ink and Tempura on Vellum History Subject Matter |
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Scriptorium |
A room or studio in a monastery where monks produced illuminated and non-illuminated manuscripts. |
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Illuminated Manuscript |
A book that is hand made and illustrated; often referring to books made prior to the invention of the printing press. |
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Artist: Yoshitoshi Title: Joganden Moon, from "1100 Aspects of the moon" Year: 1885-1892 Material: Woodblock print |
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Ukiyo-e |
Japanese woodblock prints produced from the 17th through 19th centuries; literally "Pictures of the Floating World" |
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Portraiture |
Subject Matter in which the identity of the subject is the most important aspect of the work of art and the primary reason the work of art was made. |
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Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci Title: Mona Lisa Year: c.1503-1505 Materials: Oil on Wood Portraiture |
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Unknown Artist, from Fayum Title: Isidora Year: c.100-110 Encaustic Portraiture |
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Encaustic |
Paint made from pigments with heated wax |
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Unknown Artist Title: Empress Theodora c. 526-547 Mosaic Portraiture |
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Mosaic |
Imagery made by embedding small peices of stone / glass in cement on surfaces such as walls or floors |
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landscape |
Subject Matter in which the environment is the most important aspect of the work |
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Parmigianino Self-Portrait in a convex mirror 1524 Oil on Wood Portraiture |
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Henri Matisse Luxembourg Gardens 1901 Oil on Canvas Landscape |
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Piranesi Carceri 14 c. 1750 Etching Landscape |
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"What I'm after, above all, is expression." |
Matisse on Landscape |
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Joachim Patinir Landscape with St. Jerome c. 1520-1524 Oil on Wood Landscape |
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Michelangelo Creation of Adam, detail of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1511-1512 Fresco *He doesn't want to distract from what he thinks is important. Historical |
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Actual Line: |
A physical extended point that has length and variable width |
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Emphasis |
One or more primary focal points of attention |
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Accents |
Secondary Focal Point |
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Rembrandt Van Rijin The Three Trees 1643 Etching and Drypoint Landscape |
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Etching |
A Process wherein the printmaker draws lines into a substance such as melted wax, gum, or resin that has been applied to a metal plate. |
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Dry Point |
A Process where in the print maker draws directly into the metal plate a drypoing needle, creating a soft, slightly blurry line |
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Aquatint |
A print making process invented to give the effort of a watercolor drawing in which the printmaker fuses particles of resin to a metal plate |
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Thomas Gainsborough Wooded Landscape with Cows at a Watering Place, Figures and cottage c. 1785 Aquatint |
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Abstract |
Unlike Nature |
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Ideal |
Better than nature. Within a discussion of a style, a representation of people, plans and objects based on the promise that the artist corrects nature. |
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Still Life |
Subject Matter which depicts one or more inanimate objects |
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David Bailly Vanitas Still Life 1651 Oil Painting on Wood Portrait and Still Life |
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Style |
An artist's visual conception of form |
