Chapter 1: The Nature Of Visual Arts Flashcards
It is the deliberate creation of something beautiful, meaningful and skillful through skilled and imaginative means
Visual Art
Where does the word art originated from? and What is it’s meaning
Latin from the word “ars” which means “art”, “skill” or “craft”
It is a modern and imprecise umbrella term that encomposses several artistic disciplines that fall into various subcategories
Visual Arts
What are the 5 forms of Visual Arts?
- Drawing
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Photography
It is the movement of a tool across a dry surface to create marks.
Drawing
When was drawing become more common?
15th Century, when paper became widely available
It may be created as a piece of art or in preparation for another piece of art
Drawing
It i the application of paint, pigment, or another color medum to another suface, such as canvas or wall.
Painting
What are one of the oldest artistic mediums?
- Painting
- Drawing
- Sculpture
It cretaes images on one medium and transfers it to another through ink or pigment.
Printmaking
It is often designed to make more than one copy
Printmaking
______ requires a three dimensional piece of art in its creation?
Sculpture
It is constructed by connecting smaller pieces of materials to form a larger one
Sculpture
It involves manipulating lights to create an image. One of the newest visual arts.
Photography
When was the 1st camera ever created?
1800s
What are the 5 basic elements of art?
- line
- shape
- color
- texture
- space
These are marks that has longer lengths than widths. You can either draw it horizontally, vertically, or diagonally; straight, curved;thick or thin
Lines
It is a closed line that can either be geometric, square, circle or organic such as free-form or natural.
Shape
It is a three dimentional shape that expresses depth, width, and length
Form
It is the area surrounding the object. A sense of depth.
Space
It is the reflection of light off an object
Color
Name the 3 features of color
- hue
- value
- intensity
It is the name of the color like red, blue, green an yellow
Hue
It is the lightness or darkness of the color
Value
It is the brightness or dullness of color
Intensity
What are the primary colors?
- red
- blue
- yellow
These are colors combine two primary colors
Secondary Colors
This is often called as tertiary colors. Combined primary and secondary hues.
Intermdiate colors
It is the visible and tactile characteristics of a surface
Texture
An average time required for a museum visitor to look at an art
17 seconds
Steps in how to look at and interpret any visual art in every day life.
- Look
- Observe
- See
- Describe
- Analyze
- Interpret
The initial step in the visual seeing process. It is taking a moment to notice what is going on around you.
Look
It is paying attention to what you’re seeing. An essential aspect that is time-cosuming and active procedures that demands both attention and patience.
Observe
It is expressing what you’ve notice to recognize and organize your thoughts.
Describe
It entails recognizing and making sense of the specifics in your description using logic.
Analyze
It is a mental perception process. To produce meaning, ______ entails recognizing or linking the information your eyes take in with your previous knowledge and experiences.
See
It is the final step of the Visual Seeing Process
Interpret
It is the term for arranging the elements of art and design principles
Composition
The act of interpreting and creating graphical images is defined as it
Visual Text
Who used the phrase Visual Text?, founder of the International Visual Literacy Association, in 1969
John Debes
It requires comprehending and making sense of color, line, format, light, texture, and shape
Visual Literacy
Used as a langugae tool to engage, exchange ideas, navigating our highly visual digital environment
Visual Media
The ability to decode meaning from a variety of visuals
Visual Literacy
Who said that Visual Literacy is the ability to make sense of images; it’s not a skill; it’s a tool box of skills
Brian Kennedy
Is any technology that takes, organizes, filters, learns from, or provides visual contents to consumers or businesses.
Visual Technology
It is base on interpertation to find meaning in art
Reading Visual
It defined in terms of image interpretation and deriving meaning from visuals
Visual Literacy
It is the ability to understand imagery
Visual Literacy
Who defined Visual Literacy as the ability to understand imagery?
Philip Yenawind
Who said that Visually literate people can see and understand the message communicated with images, and they can also create, modify, and use visual cues and images?
Larry Johnson (2006) of the New Media Consortium
It is the abiltity to decode and interpret visual messages and to create meaningful visual communication
Visual Literacy
Who fined Visual Literacy as the abiltity to decode and interpret visual messages and to create meaningful visual communication?
Metros (2008)
It is the ability to visualize internally, communicate visually, and read and analyze visual images.
Visualization
Who said that while seeing is a natural physiological process, perceiving and understanding visual elements is not, it depends instead on several factors?
Schirato & Webb 2004.
It assits us in understanding our history, our culture, lives and experience of others
Visual Art
It inspire us, provide reflection & provide a sense of joy
Art
Who uses drawings to create models or studies?
- Sculptors
- Painters
Who was the famous painter who uses drawings that later cretae in other medium as painting?
Leonardo Da Vinci
This is often recognized even by people who lack deep knowledge of art
Cave Painting
- It is how the figures, objects, and locations work together to tell a story.
- To interpret the visual, ______ applies reasons to details you identified your description.
Analysis in Visual Seeing
What are the 5 different perspectives
- Form
- Symbols
- Ideas
- Meaning
- Interpretation
It is an essential aspect of comprehending the visual environment
Symbols
- The reaction to a picture influenced by the circumstances in which we see it.
- On how and what we view
Ideas
It identifies the artist intended meaning, and build on the number of different meaning, based on the composition, memory, life experience, history, culture, & other elements
Meaning
We gain interpretation when we blend the views of forms, symbols, ideas, and meaning
Interpretation
It is the study of art objects in their period
Art History
It is to discover the author origins of artwork, which requires figuring out who,when & why an artwork was made
Goal
It emphasises a wide range of ethnic, spanish, american and contemporary forms developed by Filipinos
Philippine Visual Arts
Converted conventional visual art into digital art from graphical design to 3D printing
Technology
Provided new avenues to explore the creative realm
Modern Technology
It is to convert and shape their creative notions into works of art
3D effects
He is an 81 year old, english painter
- uses ipad as his primary creative tool
David Hockney
