what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
reception, extraction, inference
what might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in The Women of Avignon?
African masks he saw at a Paris museum
objects that are intended to stumulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be_____ rahter than functional
aesthetic
we can clearly see the artistic impulse to "give form to the immaterial," to represent hidden or universal truths, spiriual forces, and personal feelings in:
religious art
Sayre states that he believes that all people are creative, but artists possess qualities that most don't. which of the following best describes these qualities?
artists are critical thinkers, meaning they question assumptions and explore new directions
where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on the right side of the composition of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
African ritual masks
Closed Form
A self-contained or explicitly limited form; having a resolved balance of tensions, a sense of calm completeness implying a totality within itself.
Open Form
A form whose contour is irregular or broken, having a sense of growth, change, or unresolved tension; form in a state of becoming.
Ideogram
A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters
Process art
Process art emphasizes the "process" of making art rather than any predetermined composition or plan
Pictograph
A picture or drawing representing words or ideas. Symbols with meanings.
Fresco Sessco
Painting on dry plaster
Complementary contrast
The interaction of one set of complement colors.
mosaic
A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass
form
Materials used to make a work of art (line/light/color/ect.)
Triad color chords
A group of three colors equally spaced apart on the color wheel (yellow/red/blue or green/orange/violet)
scroll painting
A painting done on a scroll. The art form practiced primarily in East Asia. The two dominant types may be illustrated by the Chinese landscape scroll, which is that culture's greatest contribution to the history of painting, and the Japanese narrative scr
Partitioning
divide into parts
line
a mark left by a moving point, actual or implied, and varying in direction, thickness, and density
social realism
The realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as a means of social or political comment
buon fresco
a technique in which the painting is made on wet plaster
fragmentation
Breaking up into small pieces/separate parts.
subject
the literal, visible image in a work of art, as distinguished from its content, which includes the connotative, symbolic, and suggestive aspects of the image
content
The meaning of an image, beyond its overt subject matter; as opposed to form
symmetrical balance
when the various elements of a piece are evenly distributed on either side of either the vertical or horizontal midpoint of a piece
asymmetrical balance
both asymmetrical and balanced if the different areas of the piece are not identical, but still contain ewual weight
radial balance
exists when various objects in a piece branch off from a central point
what are the three basic properties of pigment
hue, saturation, key
What are representational works of art? Abstract? Non-objective?
Representational artwork aims to represent actual objects or subjects from reality.
Abstract - rendering of images and objects in a stylized way, though they remain recognizable
Non-Objective art takes nothing from reality. It is created purely for aesthe
What is local, perceptual (atmospheric), and arbitrary color?
Local color - The actual hue of a thing, independent of the ways in which colors might be mixed or how different conditions of light and atmosphere might affect color
Perceptual color - The color as perceived by the eye, changed by the effects of light an
What are the different types of perspective?
one-point linear perspective
atmospheric or aerial perspective
What is "ethnocentric appraisal?
Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture
What are some ways that artists make flat space seem three-dimensional?
Overlapping, Changing size and placement, Linear perspective, Relative hue and value, and Atmospheric perspective.
What is subtractive vs. additive color mixing?
Additive - start with black, add color
Subtractive - start with white, add color
where do we see the most saturated color?
in colors that are bright and intense
In Chapter 11, which paintings are cited as having a definite point of emphasis?
Fra Andrea Pozzo
What are four iconic symbols in The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, and what do they represent?
1. The chandelier with a single candle lit in full in daylight symbolized the Holy Ghost or the eyes of God.
2. The figures: Their placement suggests conventional 15th century views of gender roles. The man stands near the open window, symbolic of his rol
what are the functions of art?
Personal, Social, Physical
What function did the Lascaux cave paintings allegedly address?
personal, physical
How are the terms "objective" and "subjective" used in evaluating works of art?
Objective - formal analysis
Subjective - personal interpretation
What is Fire and Ice� and why is it significant?
Lipstick, special new color, red. Emotional appeal. You will be pretty and awesome if you wear it
What are some of the color "contrasts"(ways that colors are used together)?
Monochromatic
Complementary (i.e. red&green)
Polychromatic
Warm/Cool
Light/Dark
Simultaneous contrast
What are the types of line?
Diagraphic - lines heavier more in front
Gestural line - free sketch, quick, fee form
Implied lines - extends beyond border, movement, line sight
How do the terms analytic, classical, expressive, and romantic, all relate to line?
Analytic/Classical - Refers to Greek art of 5th century, art based on logical, rational principles, and executed in deliberate, precise manner, structure and control.
Expressive - A kind of line that seems to spring directly from the artists emotions or f
Which artist's work represented his "rebirth?
vincent van gough starry night
What are the visual elements?
Line, Shape, Space, Color, Texture
What is a primary reason for artists to use abstraction?
Artists use abstraction to express their creative views on things
In what way do we see the physical function of art revealed?
We can see the physical function in buildings, sculptures, etc..
What is..."red?
Primary color, red is red
What are the four different types of art criticism?
Historical
Hypocritical
Professional
Unprofessional
What is an "ethnocentric" evaluation?
Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture
How did Jordan Gushwa's book Perception change the context between images and words?
Perception, understanding of apprehend
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist, graffiti artist.Neo-expressionist painter.
Joseph Bueys
German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art. social sculpture
Frank Gehry
architect, contemporary architecture,
Christo and Jean Claude
A married couple, worked together to create large scale environmental art.
Keith Haring
an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.
Damian Hirst
English artist, art collector,, dead animals, "spin paintings," created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants.
Jasper Johns
an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.
ART: The Three Flags
Judy Baca
an American artist, largest murals in the world
ART: La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra
Banksy
is an anonymous English graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique.
Sandro Botticelli
Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. linear grace of Early Renaissance painting. Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera.
Henri Matisse
was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship, He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
Pablo Picasso
was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage
ART:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Sassetta
was an Italian painter who is considered one of the most important representatives of Sienese Renaissance painting
JMW Turner
English Romantic landscape painter, water colorist and printmaker. controversial figure, elevated landscape painting, one of the greatest masters of British water colour landscape painting, Impressionism.
ART: Rain, Steam, and Speed
Michelangelo
Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Piet� and David, fresco. the scenes from Genesis on the ceilingand The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sis
Jackson Pollock
was an influential American painter and a major figure in theabstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting.
Lorna Simpson
is an African American artist and photographer, Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex.
Vincent van Gogh
was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.
Titian
as an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.He was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods,
Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, Mona Lisa
ART: Last Supper
Ren� Magritte
Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
ART: The Treason of Images
Claude Monet
was a founder of French impressionist painting, plein-air landscape painting.
ART: Grainstack, Waterlilies at the Mus�e de l'Orangerie
Polykleitos
Greek sculptor , most important sculptor of Classical antiquity, colossal gold and ivory statue of Hera, reated the Classical Greek style, Kanon,
Richard Serra
an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. He was involved in the Process Art Movement
ART: Tilted Arc
Andy Warhol
was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art
Albert Munsell
an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system.
Larry Poons
abstract painter. with paintings of circles and ovals on solid�often brilliantly colored�backgrounds
ART: Orange Crush
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. Christina's World::: depicts a woman lying on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at and crawling towards a gray house on the hor
Anonymous
The Rubin Vase, Man with Big Shoes
Miriam Schapiro
ART: Barcelona Fan
Emile Nolde
ART: Prophet
Lorna Simpson
The Park
Henri Matisse
Harmony in Red Room
Dan Flavin
Untitled (in honor of Harold Joachim)
Eugene Delacroix
The Death of Sardanapalus
Gustave Caillebotte
Paris Street Place de L'Europe on a Rainy Day
John Taylor
Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge
Howling Wolf
Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge
Chiaroscuro
light/dark, a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
Emphasis
Focal points/creates interest
Golden Section
A system of proportion developed by the ancient Greeks obtained by dividing a line so that the shorter part is to the longer part as the longer part is to the whole, resulting in a ratio that is approx. 5 to 8
Non-Objective
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all.
Collage
A form of art in which various materials such as photographs, fabric, pieces of paper are stuck to a backing
Figure/Ground
The organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the ground)
Hue
A color, as found on a color wheel
Saturation
The relative purity of a color's hue, and a function of its relative brightness or dullness
Symmetry
balanced arrangement
Foreshortening
the modification of perspective to decrease distortion resulting from the apparent visual contraction of an object or figure as it extends backward from the picture plane at an angle approaching the perpendicular
Iconography
The visual images, symbols, or modes of representation collectively associated with a person, cult, or movement
Scale
Term used to describe dimensions of an art object in relation to the original object that it depicts
Cross-Hatching
two or more sets of roughly parallel and overlapping lines, set at an angle to one another, in order to create a sense of three-dimensional, modeled space
Temporal
Limited time, i.e. music is a temporal art
Cubism
An early 20th-century style and movement in art, esp. painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage
Space
An element of art, space refers to distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece. Space can be positive (white or light) or negative (black or dark), open or closed, shallow or deep and 2D or 3D. Sometimes space isn't actually within
Shape
A 2d area by which the boundaries are measured in height and width.
Spacial
Related to the use of form and space