Final-test 1 Flashcards
Mixed media
Work of art made with more than 1 medium
Medium
Particular material along with its accompanying technique
positive and negative shapes
Positive:dominant
Negative:background
Which artist as famous for working in the figure ground reversal technique?
MC Escher
1 point and 2 point perspective
1: parallel sides of the road appear to converge and trees in a row appear smaller as their distances from the vantage point in increases
2: 2 sets of parallel lines appear to converge at 2 points on a horizontal line
Atmospheric perspective
Nonlinear means for giving an illusion of depth, created by changing color, value, and detail
Alexander Calder
Leading inventor of kinetic art (actual movement); 20th century; mobile
Chiaroscuro
Shading from light to dark
What did sir Isaac newton discover?
That white light is composed of all the colors of the spectrum
Define hue, intensity, and value
Hue: color name
Value: lightness or darkness
Intensity: purity of a hue or color
Shade and tint
Shade: adding black
Tint: adding white
Primary, secondary, intermediate colors
Primary: red, yellow, blue
Secondary: orange, green, violet
Intermediate: red orange, yellow orange, blue green, yellow green..
Monochromatic, analogous, and complementary color scheme
Monochromatic: based on variations in the value and intensity of a single hue
Analogous: based on colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel, each containing some pure hue
Complementary: emphasizes 2 hues directly opposite each other on color wheel
Trompe l’oeil
“Fool the eye”
Representational, abstract, and nonrepresentational art
Representational: depicts appearance of things
Abstract: no reference to natural objects or depicts natural objects in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways
Nonrepresentational: presents visual forms with no specific reference to anything outside themselves
