Vocabulary
What does line mean?
A line is an identifiable path created by a point moving in space.
What is Time in art?
Time implies change and movement; movement implies the passage of time.
What's my favorite color?
Red
What does color mean?
Color is an element consisting of hues, of which there are three properties: hue, chroma or intensity, and value
What is a organic piece of art?
Organic shapes are defined as shapes that are irregular or asymmetrical in appearance and tend to have a curvy flow to them. Nearly all shapes found in nature are organic in appearance
What is Figure Ground?
Figure Ground is when you can tell where the ground is.
What does Value mean?
Different tones of Black.
What is Form in art?
A form is an artist's way of using elements of art.
What is closure?
When our eye can close something even though some pieces are missing.
What does Contemporary mean?
Contemporary art is the term used for art of the present day.
What happens in a Still Life piece of art.
Nothing, Because it is just still objects.
What is the Gestalt Theory?
Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts.
__________ describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface.
Collage
What is a Landscape painting?
Landscape painting, the depiction of natural scenery in art.
What are the 5 Gestalt principals?
Similarity, Closure, Continuity, Proximity, Figure and Ground