Contemporary fine Arts Flashcards

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Most popular among the fine arts because almost any theme can be applied
Materials are flexible, durable and readily available

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Painting

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Painting an accurate depiction of physical objects or people.
Artists imitate an appearance to convey moving drama about human life

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Objective Accuracy

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The artwork seems to have been made by a reporter who is observing a subject, or a photographer using a camera
Artist without revealing identity

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Detached observer

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Illusion of reality is created by eliminating details that the eye might see
success if observed carefully

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Selective eye

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5
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Associated with stability and permanence

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Formal order

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The artist wants to share personal feeling in relation to love
positive/negative

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Emotion

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6
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The artist can create strange forms or allow himself to experience a creative process that leads to fantastic outputs
Illusionism is used

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Fantasy

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The action or art processing hard materials into works of art

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Sculpture

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Created when a soft or malleable material, like clay is built using an armature and then shaped to create a form

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Modelling
Additive process

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This involves cutting or chipping away a shape from a mass of stone, wood, or other hard materials

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Carving
Subtractive process

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This involves giving shape to a fluid substance by pouring it in a mold of a desired shape and letting it harden. the cast material is taken out after it hardens

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Casting

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This involves gathering and putting together different materials, including found objects to create an assembled sculpture

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Assemblage
Additive Process

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12
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Both art and science.
As an art, it function and purpose, the space that it will occupy and the people who will occupy it determine its creative design.

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Architecture

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Most ancient structural device
It consists of two vertical supports and bridged by a horizontal beam

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Post and Lintel

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A rigid structural element such as a beam or a plate, anchored at only one end to a (usually vertical) support from which it is protruding

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Cantilever

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This uses geometric fact that no angle of triangle can be changed without altering the dimensions of its sides

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Truss System

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This is a curved part of a structure that is over an opening and that supports a wall or other weight above the opening.

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Arch

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A large rounded roof or ceiling that is shaped like a half a ball

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Dome

18
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so thin that their weight is negligible
It has high resistance to bending or giving way under pressure from stresses caused by rain, wind, or uneven heating by the sun.

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Shell Structures

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This is designed with patterns or shapes inspired by living organisms

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Biomorphic architecture

20
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this is when the artist makes use of their creative work to promote environmental awareness

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Environment- Friendly Architecture

21
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These are immensely tall buildings found in very populated cities all over the globe.

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Skyscrapers