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40 Cards in this Set
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Drawing as stated by Nicolaides.
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The act of accurate observation a seemingly physical contact with objects, using all the senses, especially sight and touch.
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Line
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A path made by a moving dot.
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Media
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Tools used to communicate.
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Point of Focus
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The point of the artwork the eye moves to and stays the longest. It is usually the message or most important point.
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Values
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The lightness and darkness of a colour.
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Intensities
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The brightness and dullness of a color.
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Proportion
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Size relationships within a composition.
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Two types of rhythm
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Beat and flow.
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Perspective
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The illusion of depth.
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Gesture
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Quick scribble that captures the movement in a picture.
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Analogous
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Values and intensities of 3-4 colours beside each other on the colour wheel.
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Monochromatic
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Values and intensities of one colour.
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Split Complementary
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Values and intensities of a colour and the 2 colours on either side of its compliment.
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Complementary
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Values and intensities of a colour and the colour directly opposite on the colour wheel.
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Double Complementary
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Values and intensities of 2 sets of complementary colours.
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How do you make brown?
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Mix 2 complementary colours.
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How do you make a colour less intense?
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Add black or its complement.
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What are the two kinds of space?
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Positive and negative.
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What are the 3 different balances?
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-Symmetrical
-Asymmetrical -Radical |
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Renaissance
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The age of reason. Means "rebirth".
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When was the Renaissance?
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Early 14th to the mid to late 16th century.
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What is contrapposto? Who invented it?
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The S-curve that creates movement. Polykletis.
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What is the most famous point of focus, the artist and where is it.
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"The Creation of Man" by Michelangelo. Vatican City in the Sistine Chapel.
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Atmospheric Perspective
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Things in the background become blurry and blue-grey. Invented by Da Vinci.
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Alberti
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Invented the grid, linear perspective and the checker floor.
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"Pièta"
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Means "The Pity". By Michelangelo.
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Statue of "David"
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By Michelangelo.
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What are the 4 main elements of colour?
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Hue, temperature, values and intensities.
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Scaling/ Sighting
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When an artist measures proportion by using a pencil and heads.
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How many heads tall is a Classical Greek female?
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6 1/2 heads.
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How many heads tall is a Classical Greek male?
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8 heads.
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How many heads tall is a fashion illustration?
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10 to 12 heads.
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Who created the earliest figure sculpture? Why?
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-Neolithic: Fertility charms.
-Ancient Egyptian: Home for the souls. -Classical Greek: Ideal beauty and ideal proportion. |
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These ideas of harmony and proportional-perfection are based on the notions of what two subjects?
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mathematical and musical.
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What is the most famous portrait and its artist?
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"Mona Lisa" by Da Vinci.
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What is the most famous building?
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Parthenon.
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Da Vinci considered the human body to be the ultimate _________?
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Machine.
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This is obvious in his famous drawing of ____________?
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"Vitruvian Man".
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Who painted "The Birth of Venus"?
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Botticelli.
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Who painted self-portraits to look like Jesus?
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Dürer.
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