The Sacred Realm
Depiction if ideas around faith and religion, which seek for the meaning of life and death (afterlife) and the presence of a higher power
Politics and the Social Order
Depiction of ideas surrounding the human need for societal order and structural systems of power (government)
Stories and Histories
Depiction of ideas around human need to create narratives (stories) to connect communities in the present and throughout
"painting within a painting
Looking Outward: The Here and Now
Depiction of simple personal experiences of everyday life
Looking Inward: The Human Experience
Depiction of the nature of being human (experiencing birth, life, aging, death, love, sorrow, happiness, despair)
Invention and Fantasy
Depicting the imaginary
The natural world
Depiction of natural environment
Art and Art
Depiction about the creation, viewing, or experience of art itself
Line
shape
light
value
color
texture
pattern
space
8 elements of art
color
component of light, reflected light creates
Color Theory
Isaac Newton began the study of
primary color
cannot be mixed; red, blue, & yellow
secondary color
created by combining two of the primary colors
secondary color
green
orange
violet
saturation (Chroma, Intensity)
the relative purity or brightness of a color
color palette
wooden board which painter mixes paint or range of color used within a composition
restricted palette
limited to a few colors and their mixtures, tints, and shades
open palette
uses a variety of color
complementary
use of color directly opposite from each other on the color wheel
analogous
use of hues adjacent or next to each other on the color wheel
triadic color
use of 3 colors equidistant from each other on the color wheel
pointillism
(utilizes optical mixing) dots of pure color next to each other that mix together when viewed from afar to produce the illusion of a single color
Andy Warhol
Sixteen Jackie's
Marilyn Monroe
Elvis Presley
hierarchical scale
he use of scale to indicate relative importance
scale
in relation to standard or "normal" size
proportion
refers to the size relationship between parts of a whole or between 2 or more items perceived as a unit
Papyrus paper
made form strips of papyrus plant (invented by Egyptians)
parchment paper
made from animal skin (used by medieval Europe)
paper
Chinese invented ________
dry media
chalk, charcoal, graphite, pastel
liquid / wet media
ink, pen, ink washes, brush & ink