Purposes for Creating Art
Visual Appeal and the pleasure it brings to those who understand and appreciate the creative efforts of artists.
What are Aesthetic Purposes?
An object with three dimensions.
What is form?
A way of combining elements to add a feeling of equilibrium or stability to a work of art.
What is balance?
A process of portraying an object, scene, or form of decorative or symbolic meaning through lines,shapes, values, and textures in one or more colors.
What is drawing?
Theories used to judge and defend their judgments.
What are aesthetic theories?
Most often used to describe the design or decoration of functional objects to make them pleasing to the eye.
What is applied art?
Refers to the name of a color. The term is used to point out the difference between; a blue and a green, or a red and a yellow.
What is hue?
A way of juxtaposing elements of art to stress the differences between them.
What is contrast?
This is created by arranging the art elements on a flat surface in ways that are sometimes visually appealing, sometimes shocking or thought provoking.
What is painting?
In this step of Art Criticism the art critic must look for the principles of design.
What is Analysis?
Standards of Judgment used to look at, talk about and create art.
What are criteria?
A two-dimensional area clearly set off by one or more of the other visual elements.
What is shape?
A way of combining the elements of art to give importance or dominance to some feature (or features) of an artwork.
What is Emphasis?
An art process that involves making prints. There are four main processes of printmaking discussed in this chapter: Relief printing, Intaglio, Lithography, and Screen Printing.
What is printmaking?
In this step of Art Criticism the art critic must look for the elements of art and the literal qualities.
What is Description?
Painting, sculpture and some architecture, art which have no practical function and are valued in terms of the visual pleasure they provide of their success in communicating ideas or feelings.
What is fine art?
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
What is space?
The principle of art used to create the look and feeling of action and to guide the viewer's eye throughout the work of art.
What is movement?
This can be two dimensional or three dimensional. There are many sub-processes that fall under the this process.
What is sculpture?
In this step of Art Criticism the art critic must decide on an aesthetic theory to use in order to find the meaning, mood, or idea of the work.
What is Interpretation?
Art that depicts people and behaviors that are considered noble and good.
What are moral/ethical purposes?
The illusion of physical texture, created with the materials you use. Paint can be manipulated to give the impression of texture, while the paper surface remains smooth and flat.
What is Visual Texture/Implied?
The principle of art concerned with the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.
What is proportion?
Any kind of material that can be used, processed, and transformed by a computer system.
What are video and digital media?
Which aesthetic theory is used when an artwork communicates an emotion or idea to the viewer.
What is emotionalism?