Definitions (Starter Kit) Flashcards
are you dumb? define the words
Value
Relative degree of lightness or darkness of a given color
Saturation
The quality of a color’s brightness or dullness
Texture
The tactile quality of a surface
Space
What contains forms
Mass
Solid matter that takes up space
Composition
The organization or arrangement of forms in a work of art
Overlapping
Partially covered elements are meant to be seen as located behind those covering them
Dimunition
Successively smaller elements are perceived as being progressively farther away than the largest one
Vertical Perspective
The stacking of elements with the intention of the higher ones being perceived as deeper in space
Atmospheric Perspective
Objects in the far distance have less clarity than nearer objects
Divergent Perspective
Forms widened slightly in imaginary lines diverge as they recede in space
Intuitive Perspective
Forms become narrower and imaginary lines converge the farther they are from the viewer, approximating the optical experience of spatial recession
OPPOSITE OF DIVERGENT PERSPECTIVE
Linear Perspective
A rationalization of intuitive perspective
- Use of mathematical formulas to construct images in which all elements are shaped by imaginary lines that converge in one or more vanishing points on a horizon line
Period Style
The common traits detectable and works of art and architecture from a particular historical era
Regional Style
Stylistic traits that persist in a geographic region
