ABC’s of Art
Design Principles
Art Movements/Time Periods
Vocabulary
Artists
100
A mark made by a pointed tool
What is a line
100
Asymmetrical or Symmetrical
What is balance?
100
Artworks from this era used a “Canon of Proportion” to create art, glorified the Pharaohs, and reflected the importance of religion in their civilization
What is Egyptian?
100
The use of light and dark to show highlights and shadows on objects; this technique makes painted objects look solid
What is chiaroscuro?
100
Eager to escape the conventions of traditional art, they turned away from established rules of perspective, color, details, and modeling to express themselves in bold new ways. Created collages towards the end of his life
Who is Henri Matisse?
200
The difference between shapes and forms
What is depth?
200
Light color in the foreground against a dark color in the background
What is contrast?
200
Sculptors in seventeenth-century Italy departed from the rational art of Renaissance predecessors such as Leonardo da Vinci. They created their own complex aesthetic, adding emotion, drama, and movement to their art.
What is the Baroque movement?
200
A way to organize an artwork using the geometric shape of the triangle; the main objects within the artwork fit within a triangle, giving the artwork a sense of harmony and stability
What is pyramid configuration?
200
Post Impressionist, used line, shape, and color to synthesize observations of nature with an emotional response to what he saw, famous for painting women of Tahiti
Who is Paul Gauguin?
300
The space that sounds an object. Usually “empty” space within a painting
What is negative space?
300
Van Gogh’s Starry Night is a great example of
What is movement?
300
The world's first civilizations arose in __________, a region also known as the Fertile Crescent. In about 3500 B.C., the people of the region began constructing cities -the first cities ever built. ___________ were also the first to formalize religion and build monumental structures devoted to their kings and gods.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
The art of fine handwriting
What is calligraphy?
300
The founding fathers of Cubism, basing their focus on the intellectual analysis of the structure of objects
Who were Braque and Picasso?
400
Real or “simulated” ________, examples include: tree bark, back of snake, sandpaper
What is texture?
400
Regular, Irregular, Radial
What are patterns?
400
Rather than attempting to capture an accurate representation of a scene, French artists Claude Monet and August Renoir painted impressionistic visions of outdoor life that caught the luminous effect of sunlight on objects
What is Impressionism?
400
A technique in art for creating the illusion of depth in a painting by making distant objects less detailed, paler, and bluer than nearby objects; also called aerial perspective
What is atmospheric perspective?
400
An influential Spanish Surrealist, he read the newly translated writings of Sigmund Freud on the meaning of dreams, and the artist began to use his own sleeping visions for inspiration
Who was Salvador Dali?
500
Monochromatic, Analogous, Warm, and Cool are all examples of ______
What are color schemes?
500
When all of the elements within an artwork “work” and go “together”
What is unified (unity)?
500
These artists drew inspiration from Classical art and literature and developed a new, lifelike artistic style. 1400-1600
What is Renaissance?
500
An approach to painting favored by the Impressionists, in which they worked outdoors rather than in a studio in order to capture natural light:
What is plein air?
500
An Abstract Expressionist whom painted “Color Fields” (many layers built up on the canvas), he was friends with Jackson Pollock, we talked about him when “going” to LA
Who is Mark Rothko?
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