Visual arts Exam 3 Dec Flashcards
What is a wedge
A specific technique in releasing the air bubbles in clay
What is a coil
Rolling the clay into thin long snakes
What are the steps for joining clay
Steps in joining
- Scoring-( the action of scratching Surface) joining 2 rough surfaces ensure that will they remain in the together tact
- Wet - add a little water
- Welding- smooth down joined so the that they become areas that are one
What is composition
The way an artwork is arranged
What is a medium or media?
What is used to create the artwork E.g.
Pencil
Charcoal
Paint
Clay
What is radial balance
Radial Balance: Shapes arranged around a centre.
What is the balance in a photo
The visual weight of each element that is distributed in a way that makes the composition feel stable
What are the 2 types of balance
Symmetrical balance- the artwork could be divided in half, both sides would look the Same
• Asymmetrical balance - A type of balance in which the two sides of the artwork are different, but still feel stable
What is unity
Using similar or repeated elements. artwork to create consistency (marks, mood, colours, theme) an
What is variety
Variety - using many different elements Interest contrast in an artwork created
What is rhythm
Rythm - Repeating elements in order of organised movement to create a feeling
What is a pattern
Pattern - A repeated design
What is scale
The in comparison of one object to another in terms of size
What is proportion
Proportion - Ratio: comparing parts of a whole in terms of size
What is emphasis
Emphasis - What we focus on in an artwork. Usually the
largest or most detailed areas
What is texture
visible brushmark, creating visual and tactile texture.
What is frottage
the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art.
What is contrast
Contrast - The amount difference between elements
What is value contrast
Value contrast - The amount of difference between values
What is high-value contrast
High Contrast there is a large difference
between the lightest and darkest areas (Edges look harder).
What is low-value contrast
□ Low Contrast between - there is not much difference between the lightest and darkest areas (Edgos look softer)
What is Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition - combining two or more unlike things to show contrast
What is an example of juxtaposition and explain
Royal Antario Museum
Old and new Material Old stone Facade / Sleck metal and glass Shape Stoic/ Strong Futuristic (crystal theme
What is monochromatic colour
Variations on a single colour, made by combining black and white with a single colour to create tints and shades
Name 2 examples of paintings with monochromatic colour
The Tragedy, 1903
The Old Guitarist, 1901-1904
The Sleeping Drinker, 1902
What is a relief sculpture
an artwork, halfway between a sculpture and a painting, where images are raised above the surface
What is a collage
a work of art created by glueing bits of paper, fabric, photographs onto a flat surface.
What is Sgraffito
A form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting colour, typically done in plaster or stucco on walls, or in slip on ceramics before firing.
What is perspective
In two-dimensional artworks, artists create a feeling of three-dimensional space and depth through the use of perspective.
What is contour
The outline or edge of a figure or object.
What is Chiaroscuro
bright/dark – a high contrast between very light area and very dark area in an artwork.
What is blind contour
a drawing where you do not look at your paper while you are drawing. Your pencil never lifts off the page and you follow the contours by observing carefully.
How was Picasso influenced
African sculpture & masks
He was inspired by the geometric shapes in African masks and sculptures.
Iberian art (the Iberian Peninsula is occupied by Spain and Portugal) Oval eyes and arched eyebrows found in Iberian sculpture.
Paul Cezanne
He experimented with showing different angles simultaneously (if you are viewing the front of the face you cannot see the side of the face too!)
No perspective – treated the canvas as the flat surface that it was.
How were African masks made
Used materials from the earth such as wood, terracotta clay pottery, raffia, and textiles.
They are often decorated with cowrie shells, coloured beads, bones, animal skins, vegetable fibers.
Sometimes metals such as copper and brass are also used.
Even the tools for carving have spiritual qualities.
How was African art defined
African artefacts were not considered art in the traditional sense.
African art is functional – used in rituals like dance and ceremonies.
Western art is to be looked at, contemplated, discussed to find symbolism and meaning.
African artefacts are allowed to decay. When it has served its purpose, it is tossed out and more is made.
Western art is preserved in temperature-controlled museums and galleries…value is placed on this art.
