Unit 2 - Nature Of Art Flashcards
is an individual who has the desire and ability to envision, design, and fabricate the images, objects, and structures we all encounter, use, occupy, and enjoy every day of our lives.
Artist
dedicated only to the creative side, making visually pleasing work only for the enjoyment and appreciation of the viewer but with no functional value
Artist
essentially a manual worker who makes items with his or her hands and who, through skill, experience, and talent can create things of great beauty as well as being functional
Artisan
refers to the materials that artists use. It is the means by which they communicate their ideas.
Medium
What artists in terms of their medium?
think, feel, and give shape to their vision
is how well an artist knows what he wants and uses the medium to achieve it.
Technique
The mediums of arts are classified into the?
Visual arts and auditory arts
These are the arts that meet the eye and evoke an emotion through an expression of skill and imagination.
Visual arts
Two classes of visual arts:
• Two dimensional arts (2D)
• Three dimensional arts 3D
2D ARTS:
• Painting
• Drawing
• Printmaking
• Photography
3D ARTS:
• Sculpture
• Architecture
• Landscape
• Industrial
• Crafts (furniture)
making images on a surface using color pigments or liquid paint.
Painting
Types of materials used for painting
- Watercolor
- Oil paints
- Tempera
- Fresco
- Acrylic
quick drying paint that nakes transparent effect.
Watercolor
comes in tube that is mixed with linseed oil.
Oil paints
paint mixed with egg (with or w/o egg white) and applied a panel of with covered with plaster of paris.
Tempera
applying paint on the wet plaster of paris.
Fresco
modern synthetic product that can be dissolved in water and has a wide range of color.
Acrylic
simple form of art done with the use of pencil, charcoal, pen, or ink, which is also done on paper or cardboard.
drawing
a technique used in art to create the illusion of depth and realism on a flat surface.
Linear drawing
the ability to draw something without depending on instruments or something else to draw.
Freehand Drawing
An artistic process based on the principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric.
Printmaking
Printmaking techniques:
- Relief
- Intaglio
- Stencil
- Planographic
- Woodcut
- Engraving
- Etching
- Lithography
- Digital
- Screen
ink is placed on original surface and spread through entire area of base material
Relief
applied beneath the original surface of the matrix.
Intaglio
ink is pressed through a screen for image to be printed on shirt or cloth.
Stencil
A transfer of image and prints what is drawn on the surface?
Planographic
this is done by first drawing a design and a plank of wood or on paper and then transfer it onto wood.
Woodcut
it is an intaglio printmaking process in which lines are cut into a metal plate in order to hold the ink.
Engraving
Prince are made of lines in different thickness, length and direction and metal prints are made of lines and different thickness length and direction.
Etching
planographic printing process that makes use of the immiscibility of grease and water.
lithography
the process of printing digital-based images directly onto a variety of media substrates.
Digital
also called silkscreen printing or serigraphy. Pressed through stencil using squeegee
Screen
It is a form of art are the decors a camera as its basic tool. It is a two dimensional representation of people offense. I’ll text her in a three-dimensional form.
Photography
Types of Photography:
• Advertising photography
• Editorial photograpraphy
• Photojournalism
• Portrait and wedding photography
• Fine Art Photography
It is the art of making figures such as human form, Santa monster jam, and text it to either be standing in freely, or be attached to the background frame.
Sculpture
Parts of figure:
- Front
- Back
- Side
the art and method of building and designing structures with an artistic element instead of relying solely on construction abilities.
Architecture
Artificial arrangement of outdor landscape objects to achieve purely aesthetic effect. Artists make use of the tearing us, their basic, medium along with sand, rocks, water and plants found.
Landscape
Is the professional practice of designing products, devices, objects, and services used by millions of people around the world every day.
Industrial design
form of work, involving the creation of physical objects, by the use of hands and brain. refers to works done where the imagination and the hand of the maker are evident.
Crafts
The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
Auditory arts
Auditory arts also known as?
Timed arts
Two categories of auditory arts:
Music and literature
a form of art that also has cultural activity whose medium is sound.
Music
Medium of music:
- Vocal music
- Instrumental music
is the oldest and most natural form of music.
Vocal music
is the other medium for producing music, it is music normally without any vocals.
Instrumental music
where different art forms interact and create something new and exciting outdoor arts, carnivals, festivals, spectacle, interdisciplinary work, live art, and participatory and social art practice.
Combined arts
is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.
theater
is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with or without sound.
Television
film, or movie is a series of pictures projected on a screen in rapid succession with objects shown in successive positions slightly changed so as to produce the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move.
Motion picture
the process of choosing, arranging, and presenting artworks for exhibit in a gallery, museum, or other art space.
Curation
requires several steps to achieve a cohesive collection of works.
curation of art is a process
Techniques related to paintings:
- Encaustic
- Fresco secco
- Fresco
- Egg tempera
- Mosaic
- Oil painting
- Water color
- Acrylic
- Collage
- Drawing
- Print making
a type of painting technique that uses hot wax as a medium for its known powdered pigment. From the word itself encaustic, is a Greek word “to heat or burn in “ (enkaustikos).
Encaustic
a method where pigments are usually mixed with water, although other substances might also be used like lime water.
Fresco secco
This is also known as “Buon Fresco” or “True Fresco” which entails painting on freshly spread moist plaster.
Fresco
In this method, the pigment is mixed with egg yolk or both the yolk and white of an egg.
Egg tempera
is a painting technique where in the design is created by small pieces of colored glass. stone, or ceramic (called Tesserae), embedded in wet mortar which has been spread over the surface to be decorated.
Mosaic
thick and hard to control so they were initially used only for utilitarian purposes.
Oil painting
Powdered pigments are mixed with gum Arabic or a similar substance that will help them adhere to a surface.
Water color
are artificial compounds developed in the twentieth century. The binder used includes water and the paints can be thinned with water, but once the paints dry, they have a glossy, permanent surface that resembles the surface created by oils.
Acrylic
comes from the French verb “coller”, meaning “to paste”. In this technique, photographs, new clippings, or other objects are pasted on the pasting surface and may be combined with painted areas.
Collage
The materials and methods are the most basic tools of the artis and designer. Work that is intended to be executed in almost any material - paint, stone, steel, or fabric- may first be envisioned in a drawing.
Drawing
is anything printed on a surface that is a direct result from the duplication process. It uses a transfer process to make multiple copies from an original image or template.
Print making
Five major types of prints:
- Relief print
- Intaglio prints
- Stencil prints
- Woodcut
- Engraving
the printing surface is cut away so that the image alone appears raised on the surface.
Relief print
the opposite of relief printing, in that the printing is done from ink that is below the surface of the plate.
Intaglio prints
Also called screen painting
They are made by passing inks through a porous fine mesh matrix or over the holes cut in the cardboard.
Stencil prints
The oldest form of printmaking, is a relief process in which knives and other tools are used to carve a design into the surface of a wooden block.
Woodcut
is an intaglio printmaking process in which lines are cut into a metal plate in order to hold the ink. In engraving, the plate can be made of copper or zinc.
Engraving
is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect.
Art
7 elements of art:
A. Line
B. Shape
C. Form
D. Value
E. Texture
F. Color
G. Space
Is a mark that is made on a surface or outline. It is defined by a point moving in space.
Line
5 Main Kinds of Line
1) Horizontal Lines
2) Vertical Lines
3) Diagonal Lines
4) Curved Lines
5) Zigzag Lines
are parallel to the ground
Horizontal Lines
moves up and down
Vertical line
slanting line
Diagonal lines
changes direction gradually
Curved lines
made by combining diagonal lines that change direction
Zigzag lines
It has always two dimensions, length as well as width. It is represented as an enclosed area that is defined by color, value, space, texture and form. When lines form together, they make flat shapes.
Shape
Categories of shape
- Geometric
- Organic
- Positive
- Negative
- Static
- Dynamic
“Regular shapes”
Geometric
“Free form shapes”
Organic
solid forms in a design
Positive
space around the positive space
Negative
appears stable and resting
Static
appears as if moving and active
Dynamic
has always three dimensions; length, width and height.
Form
Type of forms
- Cube
- Cylinder
- Cone
- Sphere
regular solid of six equal square sides
Cube
A surface traced by a straight line moving parallel to a fixed straight line and intersecting a fixed planar closed curve.
Cylinder
a solid, generated by rotating a right triangle about one of its legs
Cone
round, solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from the center
Sphere
It is the range of lightness and darkness within a picture. It also refers to the changes in the base color.
Value
Categories of Value
1) Tint
2) Shade
3) High Key
4) Low Key
5) Value Contrast
6) Value Scale
The quality of a surface or the way any work of art is represented. Also refers to the way a picture is made to look rough or smooth.
Texture
Categories of Texture
1) Real Texture
2) Induced Texture
Has 3 characteristics, which are hue, value and intensity.
Color
means the shades (red, yellow or pink)
Hue
refers to the lightness or the darkness.
Value
refers to the brightness or dullness of the work of art.
Intensity
It is the creation of visual perspective, which gives the illusion of depth.
Space
a live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which he or she uses to perform, but also employs other kind of art such as visual art, props, or sound.
Performance art
CATEGORIES/TYPES OF PERFORMANCE ART:
- Theater
- Music
- Dance
- Film
- Installation art
- Opera
- Stage craft
A cast of actors or actresses portrays a cast of characters in a story, play, or musical for an audience.
Theater
performance art that is widely practiced and appreciated is music.
Music
Elements of music:
- Pitch
- Rhythm
- Dynamic
- Sonic qualities of timbre
- Texture
is a performing art form that emphasizes physical movement and Self-expression.
Dance
refers to art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion of movement.
Film
The fundamental nature of this form of art is the participation of the environment they can experience visually.
Installation art
Is the form of Art that tells stories through music.
Opera
This form of Art is a technical aspect of theatrical Production.
Stagecraft
occurs when an artist (from any field - music, literature, architecture, fine art, design, graffiti, etc.) collaborates with a brand (of any kind - product, service, fashion, charity) to create a product, service, concept or ‘piece’ (for lack of a less pigeon-holing word) for the benefit of both parties and society as a whole.
Fusion
Le ire (The Laugh) done by Sapeck (Eugène Bataille), 1883 that would represent the way of Mona Lisa in a more manly version of herself.
LE RIRE
art is the placement of objects over one another in order to create the illusion of depth.
Overlapping
Pablo Picasso’s Three Musicians is an excellent example of this. The famous cubist painting appears to be comprised of paper cutouts positioned to create the illusion that the three musicians merge.
The three musicians
It uses art form which have identical characteristic.
Interrelated
is a term used chiefly by advertising and marketing professionals to refer to the process of adapting a message from one language to another, while maintaining its intent, style, tone, and context.
Transcreation
8 Principles of Design:
- Balance
- Emphasis
- Pattern
- Repetition
- Proportion
- Rhythm
- Variety
- Unit
Can be symmetrical or asymmetrical or radial
Balance
Elements used on one side is also the same on the other side
Symmetrical balance
Sides are different but still looks balanced
Asymmetrical balance
Elements are arranged around a central point and may be similar
Radial balance
Causes certain parts of a design to stand out compared to other elements
Emphasis
Can refer to repetition of design elements
Pattern
Reinforces an idea or perception
Repetition
Feeling of unity created when all parts relate well with each
Proportion
Created by movement implied through the repetition of elements. This is different from repetition.
Rhythm
3 types of rhythm:
- Alternating rhythm
- Flowing rhythm
- Progressive rhythm
artwork that contains a repetition of two or more components that are used interchangeably.
Alternating rhythm
repeated elements that follow bends and curves.
Flowing rhythm
we change one thing about an element over and over as it is repeated.
Progressive rhythm
Main principle that adds interest to a piece.
Variety
Feeling of harmony between all parts of the works of arts.
Unity
guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such as designs, films, paintings, and photographs
Rule of thumb
