Unit 1: Terms and Concepts Flashcards
What kind of system of building is this example?
Post and lintel
What kind of system of building is this example?
Walls and arches
Modeling
ADDING material onto a base or together
What kind of sculpture technique is this example?
Modeling
Carving
It is subtractive. Removing material from a base
What kind of sculpture technique is this example?
Carving
Pigment
The colour we all think of as paint
Ground
The prepared surface for the paint to adhere too
Support
The actual material painted on
Stain
Soaks into the material
Powder and adhesive
Colour that sticks right to the surface
Fresco
A painting on a specific kind of wall. The wall is covered with plaster and while it is still wet, they paint with stain. Very durable
What kind of painting is this?
Fresco
Relief printing
Block/printing surface is carved and ink is applied to high spots
Intaglio printing
Carve lines that are the design. Ink is then applied and wiped off, leaving it in the low spots. Often called engraving
2 types of printing techniques
Relief and intaglio
Conceptual
What the mind knows. Not very realistic/more abstract
Perceptual
What images actually look like. Tends to be more realistic
Perspective
Is a way to create a portrait off the way the world actually works and looks
What does size mean?
Often signifies importance
Primary colours
Red, yellow, blue. Mixing creates secondary colors
Secondary colours
Created from mixing primary colours. Mixing makes tertiary colours
Complementary colours
Colours directly across from each other
Warm colours feel ________, while cool colours feel _________ ______
Close, far away
Artist name:
Time period:
Main points:
Artemisia Gentileschi
1620
One of the first known female artists
Formal art criticism
Talking about how art works and physical appearance of art
Art history criticism
Talking about how the art has functioned through history and what role it played
What is not a part of visual analysis?
Iconography/symbolism
Commission/patron
Political/social/economic context
What is focused on in visual analysis/formal criticism?
Scale, composition, pictoral space, form, line, colour, light, tone, texture, and pattern/orientation
Formal criticism
Studying nothing outside the artwork
Historical criticism
Studying the history of the art, not the actual art itself
What does historical criticism focus on?
Subject matter/iconography
Function
Context (when it was made, where was it made, who made it and whom for)
The survival of objects
If the art doesn’t survive, we can’t talk about it
