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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/07/2007

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Term
Aesthetic Impluse
Definition
Instinctive response to beauty (need to create art)

ex. - Childrens art
- Folk art
- Prehistoric art
Term
Altamira/Lascaux/Chauvet
Definition
Examples of prehistoric art

Chauvet - 30,000 BC
Term
Art appreciation
Definition
understanding/respect art
Term
Abstract
Definition
Based on normal forms bust distorted to an extent, not supposed to look real

- Picaso
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Baroque
Definition
17th century (after renissance)
DRAMATIC
- religious subject matter
- lines, color
Term
Chiaroscuro/shading/modeling
Definition
VALUE - adding light and dark

used to make 2D look 3D

the illusion of light
Term
Cross-hatching
Definition
type of line shading
Term
Color Wheel
Definition
Arangement of Colors in a circular fashion
Term
Folk Art
Definition
Art done by an untrained artist

Grandma Moses

Ex. of Aesthetic impluse
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Foreshorteninn
Definition
Linear perspective applied to a human/animal form
Term
Fresco
Definition
a painting on "fresh" or wet plaster usually wall or ceiling
- small section at a time
- used lyme based water to mix with pigment
Term
hatching
Definition
Type of line shading - just use lines
Term
Iconography
Definition
Identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art
Term
Impasto
Definition
Thick application of paint (VanGogh)
Term
Media/Medium
Definition
What material the artist used

- oil paint, stone, pencil
Term
Issac Newton
Definition
Theory of Color
- color from light, white is all colors, black absence of color
- prisims, refracting
Term
Non-Objective
Definition
Art with no reference to the natrual world, NO OBJECTS, does not represent anything
- Jackson Pollic
Term
Overlapping
Definition
Way to create space by overlapping objects
Term
Patron
Definition
Person who buys or commitinos art
- individuals, institutions, corp., Nat Endow for the Arts, Royalty, Famous families, Church
- 1 ex. of how we live with art
Term
Perception
Definition
The way our mind interprets the info we collect with our brain (eyes)

part of being an OBSERVER
Term
Pattern
Definition
Part of texture

can be real or implied (visual)
Term
Pointillism
Definition
Painting with dots (eyes blend the colors together)

Georges Seurat
Term
Perspective
Definition
Way of creating space

- Aerial - above looking down
- Atmospheric - cant see far
- Linear - lines converage at horizen
- Isometric - parallel lines stay parallel

Vanishing point at the horizen
Term
Picture Plane
Definition
The front surface of a work of art
Term
Renaissance
Definition
1400-1600
"re-birth"
Middle class returns and wasnt art/music
Term
Realism
Definition
Represenational art
Objects look very much likes those in the real world
Term
Stippling
Definition
Type of line shadding
Shade using dots
Term
Stylized
Definition
Based on forms in the natural world but simlifed or exaggerated
(cartoons, Vango)
Term
Surrealism
Definition
Dream-like
Salivador Dali
Term
6 Elements of Design
Definition
Line, Texture, Shape, Color, Value, Space
Term
3 kinds of line
Definition
- real/actual
- implied
- edges (formed by, where they meet)
Term
4 functions of line
Definition
- outline
- create patterns/texture
- shading (modeling - adding value)
- Movement and direction
Term
Texture
Definition
2nd element of design

- can either be real or implied (visual)
Term
Shape vs. Mass
Definition
Shape - 2D
Mass - 3D

element of design
Term
2 Kinds of shape/mass
Definition
Geometric - normal shape
Organic (biomorphic) - shape found in nature
Term
Hue
Definition
The actual color
Term
Intensity
Definition
Brightness vs. dull
- adding in complement
Term
Tint/Shade
Definition
tint - lighter value (add white, high key)

shade - darker value (add black, low key)
Term
Analogous
Definition
3 or more colors next to each other on color wheel

(blue, blue green, green)
Term
Triad
Definition
3 colors equally distant on the color wheel
Term
Compliments
Definition
Opposite colors on the wheel, clash and grab attention
Term
Warm/Cool
Definition
Warm - make you feel warm, stand out, travel fastest (reds)

Cool - light rays travel slower, make you feel cool (blues)
Term
Neutrals
Definition
Achromatic - no color

black, white, brown, grey, beige/tan
Term
Monochromatic
Definition
Only one color (includes shades and tints)
Term
Polychromatic
Definition
All colors - open palette
Term
Value
Definition
element of design

actual light/illusion of LIGHT (shading)
Term
High key/low key
Definition
high - light values (pink)
low - dark values (navy)
Term
Space
Definition
the creation of the illusion of DEPTH

elemnt of design
Term
4 ways to create space
Definition
- add value (chiaroscuro)
- overlap
- size and position of the picture plane
- perspective
Term
Pop art
Definition
**1950-1980**
Made fun of popular culture, bold colors and lines
Term
Rembrandt
Definition
Master of texture and value
baroque
Term
Vasari
Definition
- Portiat painter
- wrote biographys for all resaissance painters
- portaits are implied verticals (Madame X)
Term
Whistler
Definition
Line shading
"Arrangement in Grey and Black"
Term
Riley
Definition
- Op artist
- Curved lines, create motion
Term
Kline
Definition
"Mahoning"
- angry, broken, diagonal lines
- contrast of black lines, white background
- feel his anger
Term
Gericault
Definition
"Raft of the madusa"
- Implied diagonal lines
- implied triangle (line of sight)
Term
Lichtenstein
Definition
"Still life with Crystal Bowl"
- Pop artist
- uses all 4 funct. of line!
Term
Mondrian
Definition
- Simplistic, non-objective
- Just squares/rectangles/lines
- Uses all primary colors
Term
Raphael
Definition
"Madonna of the Medows"
- implied lines
- master of mass
Term
Cassatt
Definition
- Painted women and children
- value
- only successful in Paris even though American
Term
Mantegna
Definition
"The Dead Christ"
- Foreshortening
Term
Seurat
Definition
"A Sunday Afternoon on the Ilse of Gardne Jate"
- Pointillism
- optical color mixing
Term
Dali
Definition
- Surrealism
- All paintings from dreams
Term
David
Definition
"Conceration of Napolean and Crowning of Joesephine"
- Vertical lines dominate
Term
Bellows
Definition
"Stag at Sharkeys"
Diagonals and curves dominate
Term
Grandma Moses
Definition
Folk Art
- started painting at 80
- simple farm paintings
- no linear perspective
Term
6 Roles of the Artist
Definition
- To record
- create places from human purpose (structures)
- Create extrodinary versions of ordinary objects
- Give tangible from to the unknown
- see something in a new way
- Give form to feelings
Term
Steinberg
Definition
"Hen from Hell"
- Use lines to create patterns and texture
Term
Picaso
Definition
"The Three Muscians"
- Abstract artist
Term
Michelangelo
Definition
Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer
Term
Van Gogh
Definition
Stylized work, impasto
Term
Laurencin
Definition
Female cubist
abstract
Term
O'Keeffe
Definition
Abstract of flowers, looked at to study her use of color
Term
Kelly
Definition
No idea, couldnt find them in the book either...
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