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Chapter 1: The Nature Of Visual Arts Flashcards

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It is the deliberate creation of something beautiful, meaningful and skillful through skilled and imaginative means

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Visual Art

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Where does the word art originated from? and What is it’s meaning

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Latin from the word “ars” which means “art”, “skill” or “craft”

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It is a modern and imprecise umbrella term that encomposses several artistic disciplines that fall into various subcategories

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Visual Arts

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What are the 5 forms of Visual Arts?

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  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Sculpture
  • Photography
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It is the movement of a tool across a dry surface to create marks.

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Drawing

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When was drawing become more common?

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15th Century, when paper became widely available

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It may be created as a piece of art or in preparation for another piece of art

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Drawing

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It i the application of paint, pigment, or another color medum to another suface, such as canvas or wall.

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Painting

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What are one of the oldest artistic mediums?

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  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Sculpture
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It cretaes images on one medium and transfers it to another through ink or pigment.

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Printmaking

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It is often designed to make more than one copy

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Printmaking

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12
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______ requires a three dimensional piece of art in its creation?

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Sculpture

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It is constructed by connecting smaller pieces of materials to form a larger one

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Sculpture

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It involves manipulating lights to create an image. One of the newest visual arts.

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Photography

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15
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When was the 1st camera ever created?

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1800s

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What are the 5 basic elements of art?

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  • line
  • shape
  • color
  • texture
  • space
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These are marks that has longer lengths than widths. You can either draw it horizontally, vertically, or diagonally; straight, curved;thick or thin

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Lines

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It is a closed line that can either be geometric, square, circle or organic such as free-form or natural.

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Shape

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It is a three dimentional shape that expresses depth, width, and length

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Form

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It is the area surrounding the object. A sense of depth.

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Space

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It is the reflection of light off an object

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Color

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Name the 3 features of color

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  • hue
  • value
  • intensity
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It is the name of the color like red, blue, green an yellow

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Hue

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It is the lightness or darkness of the color

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Value

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It is the brightness or dullness of color

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Intensity

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What are the primary colors?

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  • red
  • blue
  • yellow
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27
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These are colors combine two primary colors

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Secondary Colors

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This is often called as tertiary colors. Combined primary and secondary hues.

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Intermdiate colors

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It is the visible and tactile characteristics of a surface

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Texture

30
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An average time required for a museum visitor to look at an art

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17 seconds

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Steps in how to look at and interpret any visual art in every day life.

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  • Look
  • Observe
  • See
  • Describe
  • Analyze
  • Interpret
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The initial step in the visual seeing process. It is taking a moment to notice what is going on around you.

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Look

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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.

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Observe

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It is expressing what you’ve notice to recognize and organize your thoughts.

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Describe

35
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It entails recognizing and making sense of the specifics in your description using logic.

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Analyze

36
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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.

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See

37
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It is the final step of the Visual Seeing Process

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Interpret

38
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It is the term for arranging the elements of art and design principles

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Composition

39
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The act of interpreting and creating graphical images is defined as it

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Visual Text

40
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Who used the phrase Visual Text?, founder of the International Visual Literacy Association, in 1969

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John Debes

41
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It requires comprehending and making sense of color, line, format, light, texture, and shape

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Visual Literacy

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Used as a langugae tool to engage, exchange ideas, navigating our highly visual digital environment

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Visual Media

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The ability to decode meaning from a variety of visuals

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Visual Literacy

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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

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Brian Kennedy

45
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Is any technology that takes, organizes, filters, learns from, or provides visual contents to consumers or businesses.

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Visual Technology

46
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It is base on interpertation to find meaning in art

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Reading Visual

47
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It defined in terms of image interpretation and deriving meaning from visuals

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Visual Literacy

48
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It is the ability to understand imagery

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Visual Literacy

49
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Who defined Visual Literacy as the ability to understand imagery?

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Philip Yenawind

50
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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?

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Larry Johnson (2006) of the New Media Consortium

51
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It is the abiltity to decode and interpret visual messages and to create meaningful visual communication

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Visual Literacy

52
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Who fined Visual Literacy as the abiltity to decode and interpret visual messages and to create meaningful visual communication?

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Metros (2008)

53
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It is the ability to visualize internally, communicate visually, and read and analyze visual images.

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Visualization

54
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Who said that while seeing is a natural physiological process, perceiving and understanding visual elements is not, it depends instead on several factors?

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Schirato & Webb 2004.

55
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It assits us in understanding our history, our culture, lives and experience of others

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Visual Art

56
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It inspire us, provide reflection & provide a sense of joy

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Art

57
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Who uses drawings to create models or studies?

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  • Sculptors
  • Painters
58
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Who was the famous painter who uses drawings that later cretae in other medium as painting?

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Leonardo Da Vinci

59
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This is often recognized even by people who lack deep knowledge of art

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Cave Painting

60
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  • 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.
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Analysis in Visual Seeing

61
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What are the 5 different perspectives

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  • Form
  • Symbols
  • Ideas
  • Meaning
  • Interpretation
62
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It is an essential aspect of comprehending the visual environment

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Symbols

63
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  • The reaction to a picture influenced by the circumstances in which we see it.
  • On how and what we view
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Ideas

64
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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

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Meaning

65
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We gain interpretation when we blend the views of forms, symbols, ideas, and meaning

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Interpretation

66
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It is the study of art objects in their period

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Art History

67
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It is to discover the author origins of artwork, which requires figuring out who,when & why an artwork was made

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Goal

68
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It emphasises a wide range of ethnic, spanish, american and contemporary forms developed by Filipinos

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Philippine Visual Arts

69
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Converted conventional visual art into digital art from graphical design to 3D printing

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Technology

70
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Provided new avenues to explore the creative realm

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Modern Technology

71
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It is to convert and shape their creative notions into works of art

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3D effects

72
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He is an 81 year old, english painter
- uses ipad as his primary creative tool

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David Hockney

GE20 Reading Visual Arts (4 decks)

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