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Chapters 4-8
CSUF Patricia Drew Art 101
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
03/16/2014

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Term
[image]
Definition

Cezanne - The Basket of Apples 

Still Life - Annimate the pic. plane to make space dynamic 

Visual image mistakes (table does match up, the wine bottle is crooked) 

 

Term

Line

Definition

Line- Line possesses direction, reflect movement in nature, idicated the edge o a 2D shape (outline) or 3D form (contour) 

 

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Implied Line 

Definition

A function of line of sight, the direction the figures in a given composition are looking. Creates a sense of enclosure and connection as well as movement and direction 

Term
[image]
Definition

Giacometti- Man Pointing 

Implied Line  

Points at nothing specific, but activates the space around it

Term
[image]
Definition

Titian - Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin

Implied, emotional line 

3 seperate horizontal areas, God the father above, The virgin Mary, the Apostles below

Unifys the world of devine and mortal 

Term
[image]
Definition

Gogh - Starry Night 

Espressive line 

autographic - easily recognized to be a specific artist 

Loose, free, out of control

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Gogh - The Sower

Symbol for 'longing for the infinite' 

Strong sense of line in drawings 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

LeWitt - Wall Drawing 681 

Never produced by his own hand 

mathematical, strategic

Grid - the pattern of vertical and horizontal lines crossing one another to create squares

Term
[image]
Definition

Johns - Numbers in color 

Grid leads to unity and order 

brush stroke is loose

Numbers repeat themselves from 0 to 9

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[image]
Definition

Liu - Virgin/Vessel 

Female Artist in China, during Mao 

Represents female conditions

Bound feet, women couldnt walk, forced into prostitution

Shows an isolated, vonerable woman 

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Expressive Line 

Definition
Line that stems directly from the artists feelings, emotions, heart
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Vantage Point 

Definition

Point from which the viewer is positioned 

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Figure Ground Reversal 

Definition

visual relationship between foreground and background

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Vanishing point
Definition
the point on the horizon line where parallel lines appear to converge
Term
hatching
Definition
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Foreshortening
Definition
modification of perspective to decrease distortion resulting from the apparent visual contraction of an object of figure as it extends backward from the picture plane at an angle approaching the perpendicular
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Atmospheric Perspective
Definition
the technique often employed in landscape painting, designed to suggest 3D space in the 2D space of the picture plane, and in which forms and objects distant from the viewer become less distinct, often blurred or cooler in color, and contrast among the various distant elements.
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Tenebrism
Definition
fro the italian tenebroso = murky heightened form of chiaroscuro
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Pointillism
Definition
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Arbitrary Colors
Definition
color that has not realistic or natural relation to that object
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Secondary Colors
Definition
hues created with other hues
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Intermediate color
Definition
range of colors on the color wheel between each primary and its secondary neighboring color
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Definition

Mapplethorpe - Lisa Lyon

 

Term
Definition

Puryear - self 

3D

Portrays mass, but hollow 

Idea = more than meets the eye

Term
Definition

Da Vinci - The last super 

Religious 

Painting on plaster, fresco 

One point perspective 

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Definition

Caillebotte - place de I'Europe on a rainy day 

2 point perspective 

Broken up into quadrants 

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Definition

Mantegna - The dead Christ 

Serious

Forshortening 

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Definition

Matisse - Harmony in Red 

Flattened image, by using the same color pallet

 

Term
frottage
Definition
developed by Max Earnest, rubbing of textures w/ paper and crayon or pencil
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Formal Elements
Definition
Texture, patterns, time, motion
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Actual Weight
Definition
How the artist balanced the image
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Scale
Definition
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Repetition and Rhythm
Definition
visual rhythm is the repetition of an image
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Symetrical Balance
Definition
Virtually the same on both sides
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Asymetrical balance
Definition
not even on both sides, but still appears balance
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Radial Balance
Definition
image in the middle, then starts to shape itself similar to a bike wheel
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