Op Art & Color Vocab Flashcards
Optical Illusion
an image that deceives a person, leading to a misinterpretation of its meaning. Optical illusions can be found in nature as well as in art. Their strengths rely upon various assumptions in which humans perceive optical phenomena.
Op Art
A twentieth century art movement and style in which artists sought to create an impression of movement on the picture surface by means of optical illusion
Movement
a principle of design associated with rhythm, referring to the arrangement of parts in an artwork to create a sense of motion to the viewer’s eye through the work
Define optical movement
an illusion of movement or implied movement caused by the response of the eye to lines, shapes, and colors arranged in artworks.
Rhythm
principle of design that shows the regular repetition of any of the elements of desgn, with or without periodic alternation
Pattern
a choice of lines, colors, and/or shapes repeated over and over in a planned way
Tesselation
a collection of shapes that fit together to cover a surface without overlapping or leaving gaps
Trompe Loeil
a french term literally meaning “trick the eye”. Sometimes called illusionism, it’s a style of painting which gives the appearance of three-dimensional, or photogrphic realism. It flourished from the Renaissance onward.
Afterimage
an optical phenomenon in which the eye’s nerves continue to convey an image after an initial image has departed.
Alternating figures
ambiguous images which serve in the psychology of perception to demonstrate the way the mind habitually tries to achieve a coherent gestalt.
Anomorphosis
an image that appears distorted, because it is constructed on an elongated grid, rendering it unintellible until it is viewed from a specific, extremely oblique point of view or reflected in a curved mirror, or with some other optical device
Color
an art element with three properties: hue, value, and intensity
Color wheel
a radial diagram of colors in which primary and secondary, and sometimes intermediate colors, are displayed to aid in color identification, choosing, and mixing
Primary Colors
the colors red, yelow, and blue from which it is possible to mix all the other colors of the specrum
secondary colors
the colors attached by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors
Intermediate colors
the colors obtained by mixing unequal amounts of two primary colors
Tint
a soft and light color–one to which white has been added
Shade
variations of the dark and light of color made by adding black to the color
spectrum
bands of colored light created when white light is passed through a prism
color harmonies
groupings of colors
neutrals
colors such as black, white, and gray, not assoiated with any hue and neither warm or cool
cool colors
colors around blue on the color wheel: green, blue, and violet
warm colors
colors around orange on the color wheel: red, orange, and yellow
hue
the name of any color as found in its pure state in the spectrum or rainbow, or that aspect of any color
