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L02 Elements of Visual Arts Flashcards

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Defining Art

Representaion of replication of something beautiful or meaningful

Copy of something

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Mimesis

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Defining Art

Arrangement of lines, colors, shapes, and other aesthetic elements

Connection and combination of elements

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Formalism

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Defining Art

Expression of subjective experiences and emotions

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Expressionism

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Defining Art

  • Expression or application of human creative skill and imagination
  • Typically in visual: Painting & Sculpture
  • Producing works to be appreacited primarily for their beauty or emotional power
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Oxford Dictionary

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Defining Art

Art is what you can get away with

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Andy Warhol

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Defining Art

Art is either plagiarism or revolution

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Gauguin

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Art forms that created primarily for visual perception

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Visual Arts

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Significant cultural component and aim at communicating ideas, entertaining, awakening emotions in us and so much more

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Visual Arts

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Ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text

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Visual Literacy

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Reading Visual Arts

Enumerate

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  • Context depended
  • Active process
  • Cultural trajectory
  • Applying selection and omission
  • Focus in each element
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Analyzing Artwork

Enumerate and Questions

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  • Description: What do you see?
  • Analyze: How did the artist do it?
  • Interpretation: What is the artist trying to say?
  • Evaluation: What do I think about this artwork?
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Roles of Visual Arts in the Society

Enumeration

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  • Cultural preservation
  • Inspiration and expression
  • Social and political activism
  • Historical interpretation
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Classification of Arts

Uses any medium to represent the artist’s idea, emotion, and imagination

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Visual Arts

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Classification of Arts

Evoke emotions from the viewers

Visual Arts

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Painting

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Classification of Arts

Representing an imagined or observed objects in hard materials

Visual Arts

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Sculpture

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Classification of Arts

Provides us the structure we live in

Visual Arts

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Architecture

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Classification of Arts

Artist use their own body, face, and presence as a medium

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Performing Arts

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Classification of Arts

Centered on creative writing and other composition intended for reading

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Literary Arts

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Formal Elements of Arts

  • Path left by moving a point
  • Can take many forms
  • Can be thick, thin, vertical, horizontal, etc.
  • Can be invisible
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Lines

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Formal Elements of Arts

Formal Qualities of Line

Lines

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  • Has weight: Thin, heavy, bold, delicate, varies, etc.
  • Has action: Dynamic, static, restful
  • Has character: Straight, curved, organic
  • Can construct, render, describe, divide, be implied
  • May imply direction or movement, define figures, measure, fill, shade, etc.
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Formal Elements of Arts

Implied Lines

Lines

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  • Posture, hand positions, or direction
  • Subtle change of plane
  • Still-life and landscape drawing
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Formal Elements of Arts

Area enclosed by a line

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Shape

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Formal Elements of Arts

2D figure displaying:

Height & Width

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Shape

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Formal Elements of Arts

Mathematical:
* Squares
* Circles
* Triangles

Shape

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Geometric Shapes

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Formal Elements of Arts

Asymmetrical or Irregular:
* Blob
* Splatter
* Spiked

Shape

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Organic Shape

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Formal Elements of Arts

  • Surface quality of something
  • Appeals to our sense of touch
  • Evoke feelings of pleasure, discomforty, or familiarity
  • Created using marks
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Texture

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Formal Elements of Arts

  • Real or implied
  • Enhances or downplay through the manipulation of light and angle
  • Smooth, rough, matte, glossy, etc.

Texture

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2D
* Painting
* Drawing
* Printmaking

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Formal Elements of Arts

Relies on the materials used
* Marble
* Bronze
* Clay
* Metal
* Wood

Texture

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3D
* Sculpture
* Pottery

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Formal Elements of Arts

Used to portray mood, light, depth, and point of view in a work of art

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Color

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Formal Elements of Arts

Primary
Secondary
Tertiary

Colors: Enumeration

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  • Primary: Red, blue, and yellow
  • Secondary: Orange, violet, and green
  • Tertiary: Combination of primary & secondary
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Formal Elements of Arts

Shade
Tint
Tones

Color: Enumeration

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  • Shade - Mixture with black
  • Tint - Mixture with white
  • Tone - Mixture with gray
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Formal Elements of Arts

Hue
Saturation
Luminance

Color: Enumeration

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  • Hue - Any color in the color wheel
  • Saturation - Intensity or purity
  • Luminance - Amount of brightness
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Formal Elements of Arts

Repeated in a piece of work or an associated piece of works

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Pattern

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Formal Elements of Arts

Design that keeps on occurring

Pattern

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Motif

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Formal Elements of Arts

Lightness or darkness of something

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Tone

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Formal Elements of Arts

Overall impression of color that you get when considering as a whole

Tone

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Global Tone

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Formal Elements of Arts

  • Used to emphasize a particular subject or area
  • Contrast this to the rest of the artwork

Tone

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Local Tone

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Formal Elements of Arts

Drama or darkness

Tone

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Dark Tones

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Formal Elements of Arts

Drawing attention to a point

Tones

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Light Tones

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Formal Elements of Arts

Result of closed lines either 2d or flat lines

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Shape

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Formal Elements of Arts

Used as decoration, technique of composition, or as an entire piece of artwork

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Pattern

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Formal Elements of Arts

Diverse and useful as a tool that grabs a viewer’s attention whether it be subtle or apparent

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Pattern

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Formal Elements of Arts

Area betwee, around, above, and below within things

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Space

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Formal Elements of Arts

Area where the subject or area of interest is

Space

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Positive Space

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Formal Elements of Arts

Area around the subject or area of interest

Space

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Negative Space

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