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23 Cards in this Set
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What are all the Visual Elements of Art
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-Line,
-Shape, -Mass (Form), -Space(depth/prespective), -Time and Motion, -Light, -Color (Color scheme), -Texture/Pattern. |
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Principles of Design
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-Unity/Variety
-Balance(symmetrical/asymmetrical) -Emphasis/Subordination -Contrast -Reptition/Rhythm -Scale/proportion |
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What can writing about art do?
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It can make you appreciate a particular work by really seeing it and enchance your future encounters with art
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Art Criticism
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Making discriminating judgements, favorable and unfavorable
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Three types of art criticism
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Formal (the artwork), Sociocutural (the culture), Expressive (the artist)
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What can meaning be?
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Meaning can be translated or symbolized with simplistic visual information, like only color and shape (Cathedra by Newman)
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All societies...
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Create Art, So it seems to be a basic human Need.
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Purposes of Art
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-Communicate Information(Education through pictures and symbols)
-Functional/Utilitarian(everyday use) -Worship and Ritual -Personal Expression -Social causes -visual delight |
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What do we do visually?
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We think visually
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Looking and Seeing:
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Robert Irwin:Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees
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Aesthetics
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is an awarness of beauty
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What does art do?
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re-creates human experience
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Creating art...
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Does not require training
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Representational Art
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(Objective or figurative) Art isnt real but can look real
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Abstract
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to extract the essence of an object or idea
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Iconography
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symbolic meanings
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Form and Content
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form is what we see content is what we get from what we see
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Non-represental art
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Art works having no recognizable subject matter
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Paradox
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Color only exsiss in light. Light Seems to have no color
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Color wheel
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Shows how colors are related
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value
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light to dark
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Instensity
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bright to dul
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Primary colors
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red/yellow/blue
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