Contemporary fine Arts Flashcards
Most popular among the fine arts because almost any theme can be applied
Materials are flexible, durable and readily available
Painting
Painting an accurate depiction of physical objects or people.
Artists imitate an appearance to convey moving drama about human life
Objective Accuracy
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
Detached observer
Illusion of reality is created by eliminating details that the eye might see
success if observed carefully
Selective eye
Associated with stability and permanence
Formal order
The artist wants to share personal feeling in relation to love
positive/negative
Emotion
The artist can create strange forms or allow himself to experience a creative process that leads to fantastic outputs
Illusionism is used
Fantasy
The action or art processing hard materials into works of art
Sculpture
Created when a soft or malleable material, like clay is built using an armature and then shaped to create a form
Modelling
Additive process
This involves cutting or chipping away a shape from a mass of stone, wood, or other hard materials
Carving
Subtractive process
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
Casting
This involves gathering and putting together different materials, including found objects to create an assembled sculpture
Assemblage
Additive Process
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.
Architecture
Most ancient structural device
It consists of two vertical supports and bridged by a horizontal beam
Post and Lintel
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
Cantilever
This uses geometric fact that no angle of triangle can be changed without altering the dimensions of its sides
Truss System
This is a curved part of a structure that is over an opening and that supports a wall or other weight above the opening.
Arch
A large rounded roof or ceiling that is shaped like a half a ball
Dome
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.
Shell Structures
This is designed with patterns or shapes inspired by living organisms
Biomorphic architecture
this is when the artist makes use of their creative work to promote environmental awareness
Environment- Friendly Architecture
These are immensely tall buildings found in very populated cities all over the globe.
Skyscrapers
