seeing and being in a visual world
Terms
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- line- direction
- horizontal, vertical, diagonal
- line-edge
- 2 areas that meet to create an edge
- line-contour
- can define a shape or object
- line- implied
- don't exist physically- created by eye
- shape
- refers to an area of composition
- form
- shapes with volume
- silhouette
- outline or picture which appears 3D due to shape
- organic shape
- a shape based on acutal life- organic
- geometric shape
- a shape which follows the mathematial laws of geometry
- hue
- name for a color - blue shortest- red longest - 400-700 nanometers
- value
- dimension of color which refers to lightness and darkness
- intensity
- brightness and dullness percieved in an image
- color schemes
- color wheel
- simultaneous contrast
- contrast- when colors that are compliments are placed side by side
- color temperatures
- warm or cool colors
- color relationships
- myriad interactions
- smooth
- no bumps or raised areas
- texture contrast
- fuzzy next to smooth
- rough
- varied texture (sand pebbles)
- texture- as pattern
- a repeating design made up of some sort of motif or a small shape
- principles
- the ways that elements work together to structure viewing
- rhythm
- visual beat- how eye moves through image and senses repitition and flow
- legato
- slow, smooth, flowing
- staccato
- small, seperate untis, fast
- alternating rythm
- a sequence thats presented in turn
- balance
- the distribution of visual weight
- symmetrical
- mirror image side to side
- asymmetrical
- no mirror image side to side
- radial balance
- centerpoint with things balanced out from and around the centerpoint
- crystallographic
- balanced evenly all over
- formal balance
- unifying, easy to look at
- emphasis
- attracting attention- gives you a place to stop your eyes- your drawn to it
- contrast
- focal pont- ex:sharp leaf against blurry background
- isolation
- something all by itself (cup on grass)
- directed emphasis
- a way of organizing elements so your eye is directed to something (arrow)
- proportion
- describes the relative size of elements as they are compared to one another or to a standard
- size/scale
- ex:ppl to mount rushmore
- golden mean
- how you divide up a picture plane- comes from nature
- organization
- describes additional structural relationships and phenomenon that guide and direct our veiwing experience
- unity
- parts coming together to creat a whole
- proximity
- group things that are close to one another
- similarity
- things that look similar
- continutation
- moves eye around visual field based on things that point you in a certain direction like a line
- closure
- about our desire to make shapes out of everything- close shapes off
- illusion
- "tricks" used to help create a sense of reality
- relief
- statues coming out of walls- 3d sense
- tromp l'oeil
- when someone does something intentional to make you think that something is real (ex: plastic deer in yard)
- facade
- a fake front (of building)
- motion
- an organizational strategy used to create compositions that portray motion
- kinestetic
- empathy- feel body in motion
- multiple image
- one pic after another- show body movements
- blurred outline
- can tell what is still and what is in motion
- space
- spacial relationships and illusions of depth
- space- size
- indicator to depth (ex. objects in front and bacK)
- overlapping
- ex: bike rack
- atmospheric perspective
- blurrier the farther away you get- closer more defined
- amplified perspective
- something close is big-further away is smaller
- linear perspective
- lines converge to one point
- vertical location
- things further away are higher