Midterms Flashcards
The most expressive element and appeals to the emotion.
Color
Distinct qualities of color
(3 items)
Hue
Intensity
Value
T or F
Colors are only seen when light surrounds an
object.
True
Isaac Newton discovered this when a beam of light passed through a prism and breaks into visible color of spectrum.
Color
It is the color itself.
Color
It is the hue’s lightness or darkness and changes when white or black is added to it. It pertains to the absence of white or black.
Value
It is the aspect of brightness and purity of a color. High intensity colors are bold and bright. Low intensity colors are faint and duller.
Intensity or Saturation
which are red, yellow and blue. They are called primary colors because these colors cannot be produced by the mixture of any other colors.
Primary Colors
is the result of the combination of two primary colors in equal amounts. For example, when red and yellow combined the result is orange.
Secondary Colors
these colors can result from a combination of primary and secondary color. For example, red-orange [R + (R+Y)] or yellow-green [Y + (Y+B)]
Intermediate Colors
which are white, grey and black. They are called neutrals because they show no color quality or do not share the same characteristics of any color in the spectrum.
Neutrals
is created by combining any two secondary colors or by adding neutralizing one color by adding its complement or opposite color is in the color wheel.
Tertiary
T or F
There are 3 color temperatures:
Hot, Cold, and Autumn
False
There are 2 color temperatures:
Warm, and Cool
colors make us happy and excite while cool colors make us feel relax and encourage us to take it slow
Warm and Bright
a mark which moves from one place to another. The eye follows a line. Lines can be long, short, wavy, straight, thick, zig-zagged, curly etc
Line
Different Lines (5 items)
Horizontal
Vertical
Diagonal
Zigzag
Curved
straight lines that move from left to right or vice versa
Horizontal Lines
straight lines that move from top to bottom or vice versa.
Vertical Lines
lines that are between vertical or horizontal as if they are rising or falling
Diagonal Lines
diagonal form angles and change direction
Zigzag Lines
wiggly lines; lines that are organic, natural and adjust direction regularly, curvilinear.
Curved Lines
the artist intentionally shows the lines to give the viewer an interesting aspect of the composition
Actual lines
are used by the artist to make the viewer feel their involvement in interpreting the composition by seeing and connecting lines where none actually exists.
implied lines
another interesting element of the visual arts. Shapes result from the coming together of lines enclosing an area and separating it from its surrounding
Shape
the appearance and feel of a surface
Texture
T or F
Texture can be an illusion or physically felt.
Texture can be rough, smooth, bumpy, abrasive, scaley etc.
True
derived from Latin for ‘weaving’ (Fichner, 2013). It usually refers to the feel of the surface of woven fabrics.
Texture
TYPES OF TEXTURE ( 4 itmes)
ACTUAL TEXTURE
SIMULATED TEXTURE
ABSTRACT TEXTURE
INVERTED TEXTURE
Refers to the real feel and look of the surface of the object.
ACTUAL TEXTURE
Refers to a surface character that looks real but is not (Ocvirk, 2002)
SIMULATED TEXTURE
The artist would focus on one aspect of the real texture of the whole composition
ABSTRACT TEXTURE
It is a product of the artist’s imagination.
This presentation is usually seen in abstract artwork.
INVERTED TEXTURE
Refers to the visual strategies used by artists, in conjunction with the visual elements of arts – for expressive purposes
PRINCIPLES of ARTS
Artists combine elements to add a feeling of equilibrium or stability to a work of art. Symmetry and asymmetry are manifestations of balance.
BNalance
formal balance, as two equal parts of the pictorial plane of artwork placed like mirror images of each other.
SYMMETRICAL
informal balance, where the elements on either side of a composition do not reflect one another.
ASYMMETRICAL
Balance where all elements radiate out from a center point in a circular fashion to all four quadrants of the shape’s constraining plane.
RADIAL SYMMETRY
This principle of art describes the movement in or of an artwork. Rhythm is created by the variety and repetition of elements in a work of art that come together to create a visual tempo or beat.
MOVEMENT/
RHYTHM
Refers to continuity, a flow, or a feeling of movement achieved by the repetition of regulated visual information
RHYTHM
Using the element of art such that they move the viewer’s eye around and within the image.
MOVEMENT
Calls attention to an important area in an artwork. The eyes return to it over and over.
EMPHASIS
Happens when the artist creates an area of the composition that is visually dominant and commands the viewers’ attention.
DOMINANCE / EMPHASIS
This is the uniform repetition of an element of art or combination of elements. Anything can be turned into a pattern through repetition (Jordan, n.d.).
PATTERN
This can be described as sameness, the belonging of one thing with another (Panisan, 2018).
HARMONY
This is the size relationship of forms and shapes. Good proportion causes a sense of unity and harmony.
PROPORTION
Refers to a way of combining visual elements to achieve intricate and complex relationships.
VARIETY
One of the most useful composition techniques in photography
Commonly known as the basic knowledge in composition
RULE OF THIRDS
It suggests that you should imagine a tic-tac-toe or pick-pack-boom board on the frame of the picture
Mentally dividing your image using two horizontal lines and two vertical lines
RULE OF THIRDS
One of the most useful composition techniques in photography
ART CRITIC
Discovering the relationships among the parts by attending to design principles within the composition.
ANALYSIS
Discovering meaning within the work by focusing on content and expressive qualities
INTERPRETATION
Evaluating quality by assessing the work on specific criteria and ranking within the context of like works.
JUDGMENT
refers to all artworks produced by ancient men before they preconceived culture and known methods of writing and record keeping ever existed, simply meaning art before history.
PREHISTORIC ART
refers to any parietal art, which involves the application of color pigments on the walls, floors, ceilings of ancient rock dwelling inhabited by prehistoric man.
CAVE PAINTING OR PETROGRAPHS
refers to an engraved drawing, that is, etched or done by cutting lines on the rock surface with a sharp object probably a flint or stone tool.
CAVE DRAWING AND PETROGLYPH
New and old Stone age
Paleolithic - old
Neolithic - new
T or F
Original art refers to the art form from Greece and Rome.
FALSE
Classical art refers to the art form from Greece and Rome.
a general term describing the long period of time in cultural history when the Mediterranean Sea was the center.
Classical period
in the arts favors the classical period, classical antiquity (ancient times), in the western tradition, as standard for taste, which the classicists want to copy or imitate
Classicism
T or F
Greece’s silver Age or the Classical Period of ancient Greece was the time when the Greeks achieved new heights in art, architecture, theater and philosophy.
FALSE
Greece’s Golden Age or the Classical Period of ancient Greece was the time when the Greeks achieved new heights in art, architecture, theater and philosophy.
was the most powerful nation for over a millennium, defeating all others at military, organization and warfare, engineering and architecture.
was the most powerful nation for over a millennium, defeating all others at military, organization and warfare, engineering and architecture.
Roman
