Understanding Arts Midterm

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Collage, Romare Bearden, "Rocket to the Moon"

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Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images

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Theo van Doesburg, Abstraction of a Cow Series

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Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack in the Pulpit No. V

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Iconography

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the subjects, symbols, motifs used in an image to convey it's meaning

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Auguste Rodin, The Kiss

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Brancusi, The Kiss

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Content

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The message the artist is trying to convey

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Aesthetics

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awareness of beauty or to that quality in a work of art which evokes a sense of elevated awareness in the viewer

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Francisco Goya, "I Saw This", ART AS COMMENTARY

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"The Tree of Jesse", ART IN WORSHIP OR RITUAL

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Rock Garden, ART IN WORSHIP OR RITUAL

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Taj Mahal, ART FOR COMMEMORATION

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Maya Lin, Vietname Veterans Memorial, ART FOR COMMEMORATION

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Mask, initiation ceremony

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Kandinsky, Composition VI, ART OF SELF-EXPRESSION

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Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples

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Properties of Color

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Hue, Value, Intensity

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Color Relationships

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Monochromatic, Analogous, Complements

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Texture

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tactile quality of surfaces or visual representation of textural surfaces

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Oppenheim, Breakfast in Fur

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Van Gogh, The Starry Night

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Chiaroscuro

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suggested depth by shading from light to dark

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Analogous

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color schemes based on colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel

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Complementary

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color schemes that emphasize two hues opposite each other on the color wheel

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Impasto

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brush strokes of thick paint

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Medium

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particular material used to create art

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Mixed Media

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art made with a combination of mediums

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Nuestro Pueblo, Watts Tower, Example of Outsider Art

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Looking

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taking in what is before us in a generally mechanical orgoal-oriented way

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Seeing

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is a more open, receptive, and focused versionof looking,

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Marc Chagall, I and the Village, Implied Lines and Complementary Colors

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M.C. Escher, Sky and Water, Morphing, Symmetry

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Fernando Botero, The Horse

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Giacometti, Man Pointing

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Kinetic Motion

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Raphael, The School of Athens, One Point Perspective, Michelangelo, Plato