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Formal Elements are... |
The basic elements of visual arts.
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What are lines?
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An element in art with length but negligible width.
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What are actual lines? |
Physical lines made with materials that have more length than depth.
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What are implied lines? |
A drawn line having missing areas that are visually completed by the viewer. Ex: Dotted, broken, pointing action. |
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Direction
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The course of movement, as in horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or meandering. |
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What do horizontal lines signify?
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Sleep, quite, inactivity. |
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What do vertical lines signify? |
Aspiration, yearning, defying gravity. |
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What do curved lines signify?
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Flowing movement.
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What is Line Quality?
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Lines that convey emotional attributes (characteristics) or a range of emotions such as precision, vigor and so on. |
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Line Quality can convey emotional attributes and a range of emotions. True or False? |
True! Line Quality can convey emotional attributes and a range of emotions. |
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What is a gesture?
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A quickly sketched image that captures the essence of the form of the subject.
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What is an outline? |
A line that strictly attaches to the perimeter of a shape, without variation in line thickness. |
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What are contour lines? |
The outline of a shape, that make objects identifiable. |
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What are cross-contour lines? |
Repeated lines that go around an object or a form to express its three-dimensionality. |
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What is hatching? |
The placing of lines side by side in parallel groups to create values and tones. |
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What is cross-hatching? |
Crossing lines that illustrate shadows and volume. |
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Not everything in space can function as a line. True or False?
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False. Anything in space can function as a line. Ex: Staffs, columns, beams, thick cable steels.
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What are the principles in art? |
Balance, rhythm, proportion, scale, emphasis, unity, variety. |
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What is the name of this painting and who is it by? |
"Shoki the Demon Queller" by Utagawa Kunisada |
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What is the name of this painting and who is it by? |
"They're Biting" by Paul Klee |
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What is the name of this painting and who is it by?
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"Artist drawing a model in foreshortening through a frame using a grid system" by Albrecht Durer |
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List the formal elements of art. |
Line, light, value, color, texture, pattern, shape, volume, space, time, motion. |
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What do diagonal lines signify? |
Movement. They occur in the posture of running animals and blowing trees. |
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What are values(or tones)? |
Different areas of gray. The lights and dark's in a composition. |
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What is a shape? |
A flat, 2D element with a defined outline usually without interior detail. |