arts history
Terms
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- the physical appearance of a work of art - its materials, style, and composition
- form
- What a work of art is about, its subject-matter
- content
- the various connections a work of art has to the world in which it was created and in which it is viewed
- context
- the symbolism in a work of art and how it is used to interpret the work of art.
- iconography
- a space presented as a work of art to be entered, explored, experienced and reflected upon.
- installation
- art that depicts forms as they appear in the natural world
- representational
- representational art that emphasizes objective observation and accurate reproduction of the appearance of forms
- naturalistic
- art, usually paintings, starting in the 60s and 70s which showed detailed precision like a photograph and which was painted from photographs.
- photo realism
- “ fool the eye†representational art that mimics what we see so faithfully that are senses are fooled into believing it is real
- trompe l’oeil
- representational art which depicts the world as it should be ideally versus as it really looks
- idealization
- art in which forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or distorted. ⬢
- abstract
- Art which does not represent or refer to the visible world.
- Nonrepresentational/Nonobjective
- representational art in which methods for depicting forms have been standardized and then repeated without reference to the real world model
- stylized
- non-objective art from the mid-20th century emphasizing an artist’s spontaneous expression as it flowed from the subconscious.
- abstract-expressionism
- very large stones surrounded by a circular ditch
- megalifts
- space presented a work of art to be entered explored, experienced and reflected upon.
- installation
- a shape which our mind puts together by filling in the blanks
- implied shape
- the lightness or darkness of an object
- value
- italian for light-dark. the technique of using values to make a 2 dimensional form look 3 dimensional
- charoscuro
- closely spaced parallel lines used to create dark
- hatching
- parallel lines intersecting like a checkerboard used to create darks
- cross hatching
- dots spaced close or far apart to suggest darker or lighter spaces
- stippling
- made up of the colors as refracted by a prism
- color wheel
- red yellow blue
- primary colors
- orange green and violet
- secondary colors
- a mixture of a primary color with an adjacent secondary
- tertiary colors
- name of color
- hue
- the more colors you "add" together, the closer you get to pure white, This only occurs when you're mising light rays
- addative colors
- the more colors you mix together, the more light you "subtract"
- subtractive colors
- variations of the same hue
- monochromatic harmonies
- using colors directly opposite each other on the color
- complementary
- adjacent hues on the color wheel
- analogous
- 3 equidistant colors on the color wheel
- triadic
- dots of pure color that tend to mix in our eyes to produve the illusion of color mixture
- pointillism
- based on the observation that distant objects appear less distinct, paler and bluer than nearby objects due to the way moisture in the intervening atmosphere scatters light.
- atmospheric perspective
- an image that persists after the visual stimulus that first produced it has ceased.
- afterimage
- the percieved edges of a 3 dimensional form such as teh human body. lines to indicate these perceived edges in 2 dimensional art
- contour
- colors ranged along the blue curve of the color wheel
- cool colors
- in 2 dimensional images, the relationship between a shape we perceive as dominant and the background shape we perceive it against.
- figure
- the visual phenomenon whereby an elongated object projecting toward or wawy from a viewer appears shorter than its actualy length, as though compressed.
- foreshortening
- a preparatory coating of paint, usually white but sometimes colored, applied to the support for a painting or drawing
- ground
- uses diagonal lines to convey recession, but parallel lines do not converge.
- isometric perspective
- the relative purity or brightness of a color.
- intensity
- having to do with motion. incorporates real or apparent movement.
- kinetic art
- based on the observation that parallel lines appear to converge as they recede from the viewer, finally meeting at a vanishing point on the horizon
- linear perspective
- 3 dimensionl form, often implying bulk, density and weight
- mass
- one in which all colors are permitted
- open palette
- the tendency of the eyes to blend patches of indivisual colors placed near one another so as to perceive a different, combined color
- optical color mixture
- the literal surface of a painting imagined as window, so that objects depicted in depth are spoken of as behind or receding from the picture plane
- picture plane
- a color darker than a hues normal value
- shade
- a 2 dimensional area having identifiable boundaries, created by lines, color or value changes, or some combination of these
- shape
- the perceptual phenomenon whereby complementary colors appear most brilliant when set side by side
- simultaneous contrast
- colors ranged along the orange curve of the color wheel
- warm colors