Art Design 1 Flashcards
(58 cards)
Different forms of art such as
Drawing
Sculpture
Photography
Process
The completed work
Product
The human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir us
Ability
Three truths about art
No definition
doesn’t have to be beautiful
Can be created for any number of reasons
Philosophies have argues that
Art serves no function
9 steps to creating better composition
- Create more than one option
- Pick a interesting/appropriate subject
- Size Matters!
- Think about Placement
- Create a area of interests
- Balance positive and negative space
- Add Dramatic values
- Simplify distracting elements
- Choose color and intensity deliberately
Attitude of rest
Vertical line
Attitude of action
Diagonal lines
A two dimensional form which takes up an area
Shape
The illusion of weight or density, also refers to the physical bulk of a solid body of material
Mass
Is the quality of height
Volume
Can be described as the area occupied by or surrounding an artwork
Space
A non-linear means of producing spatial depth, created by a change in color
Atmospheric Perspective
Can be described as a non-spatial continuum in which events occur in succession
Time
The ways artists use abstracting elements or technology to create the illusion of movement
Implied Motion
When artists create a situation for three-dimensional objects to move through space
Actual Motion
The gradation of light and dark across a surface
Chiaroscuro
The characteristic of a color that causes it to be classified as red, green and blue
Hue
Is the lightness or darkness of a color
Value
Refers to the purity of a hue
Intensity
Red
Yellow
Blue
Primary Hues
Orange
Green
Violet
Secondary Hues
Red-orange Yellow-orange Yellow-green Blue-violet Red-violet
Intermediate Hues
Colors cannot be produced by mixing other colors
Primary Hues
