Visual Art Midterm Review

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What traits to creative people tend to possess?

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-Sensitivity
-Flexibility
-Originality
-Playfulness
-Productivity
-Fluency
-Analytical skill
-Organizational skill

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(Creativity)
Sensitivity-

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Heightened awareness of what one sees, hears, and touches, as well as responsiveness to other people and their feelings.

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(Creativity)
Flexibility-

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An ability to adapt to new situations and to see their possibilities;willingness to find innovative relationships.

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(Creativity)
Originality-

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Uncommon responses to situations and to solving problems.

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(Creativity)
Playfulness-

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A sense of humor and an ability to experiment freely.

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(Creativity)
Productivity-

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The ability to generate ideas easily and frequently, and to follow through on those ideas.

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(Creativity)
Fluency-

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A readiness to allow the free flow of ideas.

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(Creativity)
Analytical skill-

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A talent for exploring problems, taking them apart, and finding out how things work.

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(Creativity)
Organizational skill-

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Ability to put things back together in coherent order.

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Iconography-

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Litterally "describing images;" involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art.

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Who created "The Oxbow?"

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Tomas Cole

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Who created "White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang?"

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Wang Jian

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Who created "Spiral Jetty?"

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Robert Smithson

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Contour lines involve what?

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Boundaries

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Model-

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Give three-dimensional appearance

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Values-

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Shades of light and dark

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Chiaroscuro-

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Artists employ values- lights and darks- to record contrasts of light and shadow in the natural world, contrasts that model mass for our eyes.

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Hatching-

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Areas of closely spaced parallel lines, as on the front of the forehead or the side of the nose.

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Primary colors-

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-Red, yellow, and blue
-labled 1 on color wheel.
-Theoretically can not be made by any mixture of other colors

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Secondary colors-

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-Orange, green, and violet
-Labeled 2
-Made by combining two primary colors

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Tertiary colors-

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-Labled 3 on color wheel
-Product of a primary color mixed w/ an adjacent secondary color.

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Visual weight-

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Refers to the apparent "heaviness" or "lightness" of the forms arranged in a composition, as gauged by how insistently they draw our eyes.

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Scale-

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Means size in relation to a standard or "normal" size.

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Proportion-

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Refers to the size relationships between parts of a whole, or between two or more items perceived as a unit.

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Hierarchical scale-

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Use of scale to indicate relative importance.

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Types of Dry media?

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-Pencil
-Metalpoint
-Charcoal
-Chalk and Crayon

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Binder-

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Substance that holds particles of pigment together.
-Chalks have nonfat binders
-Crayons have a fatty or greasy binder.

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Pastel-

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Most well-known chalk medium.