FINAL Flashcards
The total appearance, organization, or inventive arrangement of all the visual elements according to the principles of organization:
Form
What are the Principles of Organization?
Harmony and Variety Proportion Balance Dominance Movement Economy
When a work of art successfully utilizes the principles of organization, the result is
Space and Visual Unity
Name 4 of the methods for creating harmony in a work of art:
Repetition, rhythm, pattern, Closure, and Visual Unity
What are the three components of a work of art?
Subject, Form, and Concept
An approach to art where no personal interpretation is introduced by the artist:
Naturalism
What are the Elements of Art?
Line, Color, Texture, Shape, and Value
A work of art that is completely imaginative:
Nonobjective
The actual flat surface on which the artist executes a pictorial image:
Picture plane
The knowledge of materials and the skillful handling of them:
Craftsmanship
The line that defines the outermost limits of an object or a drawn or painted shape:
Contour
A line that dims, fades, stops, and/or disappears, but is visually completed by the viewer:
Implied
__________ lines are lines that are drawn freely, quickly, and seemingly without inhibition in order to capture the intrinsic spirit and animation seen in the subject.
Gestural
A line that moves across a shape or object to define the surface undulations between the outermost edges:
Cross-contour
Repeated stories of an art tool, producing clustered (usually parallel) lines that create values:
Hatching
A line that indicates space that is flat:
decorative
_________ refers to the length and width of a line.
Measure
A shape that does not physically exist but is suggested through the psychological connection of dots, line areas ore their edges:
Implied