Test 1 Flashcards
(55 cards)
7 Standards of Visual Literacy
- Finding Images
- Interpret & analyze images
- Evaluate
- Use effectively
- Create visual media
- Use images ethically and cite visuals
- Defining image need
Perception
Process of gathering information through our sense, organizing and making sense of it
Reception
Action of processes, receiving something given, seen, or sent
Interpretation
Develop intellectual strategies use to interpret and understand what is seen
What is Value Culture?
Give Example.
Everything that is seen, produced to be seen, and the way in which it is seen and understood. It’s part of culture that communicates through visual means
Example: Painting, photography, Tv, Sculpture, Video or Digital art
Jane Jacobs - Book - 4 Key Qualities to healthy cities
Book: Death and life of Great American Cities
- Mixed Users
- Aged Buildings
- Small Blocks
- Population Density
What makes a city live-able? Components/Characteristics?
- Various types and ages of buildings
- High concentration and density of use
- Uses mixed not just all one kind of thing
- frequent streets and very few blocks
2 Elements of art and give examples
Visual Components of Colour, form, line, shape, space, texture and value
Example:
1. Line - Defined by a point moving in space, 2 or 3D. Descriptive, implied, or abstract
- Colour - Hue, value, and intensity
2 Principles of design and examples
The ways artists use the elements of art in a work of art, balance, emphasis, movement, pattern, repetition, proportion, rhythm, variety, unity
- Movement - path the viewers eyes takes through work of art through liens, edges shape, color within,
Balance - Distribution of visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space
What is copyright? what materials are covered?
Protects works from being copied, performed, or distributed without the permission of the copyright holder, usually the author or the creator of the work, and provides exceptions for special circumstances.
Materials: Paintings, books, theatre, manuals, dictionaries, magazines.. etc
Fair Use of Copyright
2 Examples
Allows you to use other people’s materials for the purpose of
Example: research, private study, criticism, review or news, reporting, education
Derivative vs. Parody (Case Study)
Photo: Art Rogers, Puppies
Jeff Koon making a sculpture out of photo and projecting it as how own use and argued he was using Transformative design
Renaissance
Term first coined in France in the 19th c to look back on particular period of history that began in Italy, and reached its height throughout Europe in 15th c
Linear Perspective
Give Example
Arrangement in conformity with the new mathematical depiction of receding space
Example: …
De Pictura by Alberti
Linear Perspective…
Cartesian Dualism
Binary division, theorized by 17th c philosopher Rene Descartes that the mind and body are split, with the mind containing consciousness and reasoning while the body is only matter
Impressionism
Artistic style emerged in France, was characterized by an Emphasis on light and colour.
Impressionist work to emphasize the view of nature as unstable and changeable
Cubism
Part of the modern French Advant-garde and began with collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. challenged the dominant model of perspective through analytical system that broke up the perspectival space. Both form and subject matter were more challenging
Abstract Expressionists
Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock … works of art viewed as record of artist’s emotional intensity and physical spontaneity and gesture during painting process
Identify a formal element of architecture
Give Example
Form, space, texture, material, line, colour
Example: Form - Eero Saariaen TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport NYC
- Shapes made by how the material was used. Reinforced concrete poured into wooden forms, when rigid and the forms removed, it gave soaring shells
Construction system of architecture
Give Example
Post and Lintel
One of the simplest and most universally used systems of construction, able to find it in Egypt dating back to 2,7000 and Greek Temples of the 5th and 6th century
Johannes Itten Colour Theory
Colour Theorist, created the 7 strategies of colour combinations and 12 colour model ○ Contrast of huge ○ Light-dark ○ Cool-warm ○ Complements ○ Simultaneous contrast ○ Contrast of saturation ○ Contrast of extension
Discuss one of the 7 colour contrasts
Cool and Warm
Both physical and psychological contrast. Colour juxtaposition affects warmth and cold perception: a red-violet next to a blue will look warm, but the same red-violet next to red will look cool.
Example: Violet and Blue, Red and Violet ..
Red making violet brighter
Representation
The use of Images to create meaning about the world around us
