Appreciation of Fine Arts Test 1 Flashcards
the Greeks and their Predecessors
Antiquity-100 B.C.
Romans and Early Christians
100 B.C. - A.D. 500
Early Middle Ages
500-1100
Late Middle Ages
1100-1400
Renaissance
1400-1600
Baroque
1600-1750
Classical
1750-1825
Romantic
1825-1900
Modernism-Early 20th Century
1900-1945
Post-modernism-Arts today
1945-present
essential building blocks of design
elements
the path of a moving point
line
lines you can see
actual lines
suggested lines
implied lines
an enclosed line
shape
how positive and negative areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in a work of art
space
what type of space becomes the subject or foreground
positive space
what kind of space becomes the background
negative space
3 effects of music and art
physical
emotional
spiritual
objects further away appear smaller, and objects closer appear larger
size
judged by its relation to the horizon line
position
shows that one object is closer than another
overlapping
one vanishing point on the horizon line
one-point
two vanishing points on horizon line
two-point