Intro to Art
Terms
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- Impasto
- paint applied very thickly to a surface.
- Implied Motion
- The illusion of movement where there is actually none.
- Architecture
- Three dimensional, measured in height, width, and depth. Surrounds an empty space.
- Motif
- A single image that gets repeated a number of times in a pattern.
- Picture place
- The two dimensional surface of a painting, drawing, print or photo.
- Trompe l'oeil
- An implied texture which seems so real that even from an inch away...
- Implied Future Time
- A moment where you see the present and imagine the change that is about to occur.
- Simple "depth" tools
- size, overlapping, transparency, location on the picture plane.
- Sculpture
- Three dimensional, measured in height, width, and depth. (density and weight)
- Painting
- Two dimensional, measured in height and width.
- Negative space (Ground)
- The background as opposed to the important image or images.
- Film
- Is experienced in the fourth dimension, time.
- Eternal Time
- A frozen moment of time, having an ageless permanent and unchanging quality.
- Positive space (Figure)
- The important image of images as opposed to the background.
- Actual Motion (kinetic art)
- Art that moves. A mobile is an example.
- Collage
- the pasting of materials (cloth, newspaper, letters, photos, or found objects onto the surface of an artwork.
- Texture
- A surface quality. It creates VISUAL INTEREST and appeals to our sense of touch) tactile sense.
- Actual Texture
- Is a real surface instead of an illusion of one.
- Figure-ground reversal
- A two dimensional work in which the image becomes background and the background becomes image.
- Location on the picture plane
- refers to the fact that images on the bottom edge of the picture plane seem closer to the viewer than those placed higher up.
- Implied Texture
- An illusion of texture.
- Pattern
- A repeating motif or design. It creates VISUAL INTEREST and appeals to our individual sense design or sight.