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Lesson 1 - Elements & Functions of art Flashcards

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Needs for personal expression. We are doing this to educate our senses and sharpen our perception of colors, forms, textures, designs, etc. in our environment.

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Personal Function

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Needs for display, influence, celebration, or communication. It seeks to influence the collective behavior of a people.

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Social Function

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For utilitarian objects and structures. The need for beauty in functional objects for everyday use.

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Physical Function

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according to the oxford dictionary, this is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power

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Art

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An element of art defined by a point moving in space.

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Line

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An element of art that is two-dimensional,
flat, or limited to height and width.

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Shape

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An element of art that is three-dimensional and
encloses volume; includes height, width, and depth (as in a cube, a sphere, a pyramid, or a cylinder). May also be free-flowing.

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Form

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The lightness or darkness of tones or
colors. White is the lightest; black is
the darkest.

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Value

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An element of art by which positive and negative
areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in
a work of art

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Space

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An element of art made up of three properties: hue, value, and intensity.

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Color

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An element of art that refers to the way
things feel, or look as if they might feel if
touched.

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Texture

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Represent how the artist
uses the elements of art to
create an effect and to help
convey the artist’s intent.

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Principles of Art

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Refers to the visual weight of the
elements of the composition.

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Balance

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Both sides of a composition have the same elements in the same position, as in a mirror-image, or the two sides of a face.

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Symmetry

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Size relationship of one part to another and of parts to the whole.

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Proportion

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when the artist creates an area of the composition
that is visually dominant and commands the
viewer’s attention. This is often achieved by
contrast.

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Emphasis

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The composition is balanced due to the contrast of any of the elements of art.

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Asymmetry

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Result of using the elements of art such that they
move the viewer’s eye around and within the image.

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Movement

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Uniform repetition of any of the elements of art or any combination thereof.

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Pattern

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you want your painting to feel unified such that all
the elements fit together comfortably.

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Unity

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Created by movement implied through the
repetition of elements of art in a non-uniform but
organized way.

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Rhythm

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Why is it important to study the elements of art?

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a person cannot create art without utilizing at least a few of them. Secondly, knowing what the elements of art are, it enables us to describe what an artist has done, analyse what is going on in a particular piece and communicate our thoughts and findings using a common language.

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the analysis and evaluation of works of art. Often tied to theory; it is interpretive, involving the effort to understand a particular work of art from a theoretical perspective and to establish its significance in the history of art.

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Art Criticism

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What are the steps to art criticism?

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1.) Look at the basic semiotics
2.) Analyze the artwork
3.) Decide an interpretation
4.) Make a judgment call

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A longer block of time encompassing many different artists and their works of visual art, music, theater, and literature. usually includes several art movements with a shared focus or goal.

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Art Period

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the basis on how you consider a work of art as art

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Greek classism

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A period wherein Greek Classism standards were not followed by the artist.

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Modernism or Art Movements

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Denotes one or more of the styles and philosophies prevalent in the art produced during
that era. Some artworks followed classical or traditional styles.

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Modern Art

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The painting that started Impressionism

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Impression, Sunrise by Claud Monet

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the art style that tries to capture an impression of what the eye sees at a given moment.

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Impressionism

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Pioneer of the impressionist movement. Many of his beautiful paintings show places in the garden he created for himself and his wife.

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Claud Monet

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liked to paint lively groups of figures. He used maids as his models. Most of his works are full of sketchy patches of color and contrasts of light and shade.

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August Renoir

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an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.

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Expressionism

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The movement got its name from a non-sense word. It protested the madness of World
War I. Their alternative was to overthrow all authority, tradition, and cultivate absurdity.

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Dadaism

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a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

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Cubism

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What are the two types of Cubism?

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(1) Synthetic, and (2) Analytic Cubism.

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About breaking down an object (like a bottle) viewpoint-by-viewpoint, into a fragmentary image.

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Analytical Cubism

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About flattening out the image and sweeping away the last traces of allusion to three-dimensional space.

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Synthetic Cubism

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a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Pablo Picasso

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a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator. One of the first Abstractionists on the Philippine art scene.

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Vicente Manansala

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Appreciated the mysteries of dreams and the unconscious and the appeal of bizarre and the strange. For them, the world is made of pure imagination and personal expression.

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Surrealism

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He explored new ways of creating art and wanted to reach the unconscious part of the mind, therefore, becoming the principal theorist of surrealism.

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Andre Breton

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To liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of
rationalism by championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.

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Surrealism

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a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery. Arguably, his most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory (1931), depicting limp melting watches.

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Salvador Dali

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He made a revolutionary breakthrough by abandoning the paintbrush altogether-pouring, flickering, and dripping commercial paints onto a large canvas on the
floor.

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Jackson Pollock

46
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He pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines. He embraced the value of
dynamic spontaneity and quick gestures in painting that became significant artistic
influences among his followers.

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Jose Joya

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To understand abstract art, you need two things;

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an open mind and a wandering
imagination.

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Paintings that depict an artist’s state of mind

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Abstract Expressionism

49
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refers to art made and produced by artists living today.

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Contemporary Arts

50
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Pushes the boundaries of the traditional
art forms and redefining what art can be.

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Postmodernism Art

51
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Who created the minimum monument?

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Nele Azevedo

52
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Who created the head of state?

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Tomy Imao

53
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The father of modern painting in the Philippines?

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Victor Edades

54
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The language of every artist in art is:

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Elements & Principles of Art

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