LECTURE 1 Flashcards
What is visual literacy?
The ability to “read” appearances. Understanding their meaning from the image.
What is Iconography?
Symbols in artwork
What is a somatic reading?
Immediate reaction to an artwork
What is a visual/formal analysis?
What you can tell from the visuals of an image or artwork
What is function?
The purpose of an object
What is context?
The situation behind it, the background info, (it can be anything important)
What is Scale?
The size of object
What is medium?
what material the object is made off
What is meaning of audience in art?
Whoever saw the artwork or who is it for
What is patronage in art?
Whoever paid for the art
What is an outline?
A line that is 2d
What is a contour line?
Line that shows 3d forms
What is an Implied line?
An invisible suggested line
What are analogous colors?
Colors that lie next to one another in the color wheel; blends smoothly
What are complementary colors?
Colors that are ACROSS one another on the color wheel
What is composition?
Basic organization of an artwork
What is the foreground?
The foreground is the area of the painting closest to us
What is the middle ground?
The part beyond the foreground
What is the background?
Area of painting farthest away from us
What is naturalism?
How much an artwork looks like the real world (answer)
What is abstraction?
An artwork ignoring or going away from what the real world looks like
What is idealization?
Perfection of an object made by the artist. What someone would WANT to look like
What is realism?
Realism is the accurate image of an object “warts and all”
What was the purpose of the mother goddess statue from Lecture 1?
A votive offering; to become pregnant
