What is the difference between a utilitarian artwork and a decorative artwork?
Utilitarian is pretty and useful.
Decorative is just pretty.
__________ is the element of art defined by a point moving in space.
Space
Proportion
Line
Texture
1. Line
What art movement is this artwork from?
Greek
What is the difference between carving and modeling?
Carving takes away materials and modeling adds it.
What is the "subject" in art?
What the artwork is showing you.
What is the purpose of narrative art?
To tell a story.
What element of art besides color is prominent in this artwork?
Texture
What is artwork that does not attempt to represent an item the way it is seen in real life is called?
Abstract Art
A material!
How could Edvard Munch express the emotion of fear better in his artwork “the scream”?
Teacher's Discretion
What is symbolism?
Imagery that indirectly represents an idea, emotion, or state of mind.
Which element or principle is the path a viewer's eyes take when they look at a work of art?
Movement
Artwork made by Native Australians using dotwork and natural inspiration is from what art movement?
Aboriginal Art
What medium is used in this artwork?
Wire
What color scheme is this artwork?
Analogous
A monument, like Lincoln’s monument or Mount Rushmore may have the purpose of ______________.
a)Being a utilitarian art piece.
b)Narrating the grandness of its subject.
c)Expressing the artist’s emotion or experience.
d)Being an aesthetically complex art piece.
b) Narrating the grandness of its subject.
How is proportion different from scale?
Proportion is an object in the art vs. an object in the art and scale is the art vs. a viewer.
Which art movement is known to use earth colors and smooth, swirling patterns inspired by nature?
Art Nouveau
What is this carving tool called?
A loop tool
The artist of this work designed it to look unstable. How did he ensure it was stable while maintaining the illusion it wasn't?
He laid out the objects on the floor and then flipped the picture sidways.
What is the purpose of this art piece?
Fallen Leaves. Kadishman, Menashe. Iron Plates. 1997, Jewish Museum Berlin.
To memorialize victims of war
How do you define balance?
The distribution of visual weight in an artwork.
Is cubism abstract?
Yes!
What do you call an artwork that uses multiple materials?
Multi-media
What is the phrase or expression below an example of?
Ms. McDonald is rooting for you to do well on your final exam! Before you take it they tell you to "break a leg"!
An Idiom