Visual Elements

Question 1

Name types of lines and what they do

Answer 1

Actual Line: zips ( I I ) are actual lines
Implied lines: we dectect as viewers but the artist doesn’t include. More engaging and can be directional
Lines formed by edges: ig. two walls edges put together

Question 2

What are the different functions of a line?

Answer 2

• Descriptive lines: describes outline and form/ describes or implies movement
  ex: alexander calder wires sculpture
• Create texture of pattern
• hatching /// Cross-hatching

Question 3

What are Characteristics of line ?

Answer 3

1. Direction: where its going

2. Linear Quality: how does it look where it’s going

Question 4

What is shape?

Answer 4

Flat, 2D but can give illusion of 3D form

Question 5

what is form? 
Can be: 
-open and \_\_\_\_\_
- \_\_\_\_\_ or dynamic 
- have interior or exterior \_\_\_\_\_\_
- be \_\_\_\_\_ or subtractive

Answer 5

3D- ranges from low and high relief to full-round sculptures 
Can be: 
-open and close 
- static or dynamic 
- have interior or exterior contours
- be additive or subtractive

Question 6

What is space ?

Answer 6

artists can give the illusion of 3D space in 2D through

1. “Figure-ground” relationship- gets brain involved
2. Placement (higher, lower or overlap)
3. scale change (big=close/ small=far)
4. atmospheric perspective (detailed=close)
5. inuitive/divergent perspective : what we get before linear perspective
6. Linear Perspective: one point,two point)
7. Point of view

Question 7

what are the types of texture?

Answer 7

Actual texture or simulated

Question 8

Light can be _____ and _______.

Answer 8

simulated and reflect surfaces

Question 9

What is value?

Answer 9

relative lightness or darkness of an area

Question 10

What are the types of color?

Answer 10

every color choice is a choice
Local Color: expected to be in the world
Atmospheric color: color of something in nature
Interpretive color

Question 11

Describe time

Answer 11

• nearly all object are affected by time
• times essential element of any object that moves or is emphemeral
• some objects purposely features changes over time ( grow, shift, blink)
• some objects imitate changes over time

Question 12

Describe motion in artworks

Answer 12

-Artworks can move on their own, or incorporate
the viewer’s motion
-Time is an essential element of
any object that moves (kinetic sculpture, film, etc.)
-some objects imitate or express motion
-objects that express or depict motion are often
seen as expressing modernity (the now)

Question 13

Local Value

Answer 13

value as they appear in relaity

Question 14

Interpretive value

Answer 14

values manipulated to express something