Fine Arts Flashcards
It is the art produced in a particular historical period or the art of a nation or a region within the country.
It is a certain technical approach to the making of art.
Art Production
Artist imitate appearance to convey moving drama about human life. They combine their representation skill to create a psychological impact.
Artists do this art by being a detached observer or by employing a selective eye.
The style of objective accuracy
The artwork seems to have been made by a reporter who is observing a subject, or a photography using candid camera.
The artist represents themselves as somebody who selects, arranges, and represents reality without their identity.
The artist as a detached observer
The “illusion of reality” is created by elimination of details that the eye might see.
There can be “direct piling up of detail to create an impression of the complexity of object” or “the suppression of detail without the loss of essential traits cannot succeed unless the artist has observed their subject carefully.”
The artist as selective eye
One of the devices for objective accuracy, it is the accuracy of size and shape relationships.
Learning how to draw accurately teaches the artist to see and to understand what they must learn to distinguish between imitation of surface and informed representations.
Correct drawing
One of the devices for objective accuracy, it helps in creating realistic images.
The artist should learn to observe and control the amount of light an object receives, the shape of its shadows, the transition from light to shadow, and the source of light in the medium used.
Control and handling of illumination
One of the devices for objective accuracy, it is achieved through sharpness or softness, distinctiveness or vagueness of form and contour.
The optic fact that object lose distinctiveness at the periphery of our field of vision becomes a device for controlling the spectators’ visual experience.
Focus
One of the devices for objective accuracy, it is a powerful instrument that is mainly connected with the description of the object.
(on the object,) it varies depending on the amount and source of light they receive and on their location in space.
Color
One of the devices for objective accuracy. it relates to the artist’s ability to create illusion of deep space within the painting.
Perspective
It is associated with stability and permanence, Formal order is exhibited by its qualities:
a. intellectual order,
b. biomorphic order, and
c. aesthetic order
Intellectual order is clearly applied in painting. This style is visible in cubism where an intellectual method of analyzing form is employed by the painter.
The style of formal order
Romanticism and emotions are used in painting when the artist wishes to disclose personal feelings in relation to love.
Brush strokes are also used to express sparkle, freshness, and abundance.
The style of emotion
As artist work, they discover a variety of possibilities of achieving form and visual effects, even new worlds the have not seen before or will never exist in the real world.
It originates in both logical and irrational mental process, it presents no common set of visual qualities.
The style of Fantasy
A technique of designing and building associated with construction
Architecture
It is designed with patterns or shapes inspired by living organisms
Biomorphic architecture
Two types of environment - friendly architecture
Eco-art. Skyscrapers
