African Art
Elements & Principles
Media & Processes
Chapter One
Art Criticism & Aesthetics
100
A brilliantly colored and patterned fabric that became the royal cloth
What is kente cloth?
100
direct opposites on the Color Wheel, when mixed create neutral colors
What is complementary?
100
the sculptured forms project only slightly from the background
What is bas relief?
100
in the visual arts, _____ ______ refers to painting, sculpture, and architecture, arts which have no practical function
What is fine arts?
200
a full costume, including a face covering, or mask
What is masquerade?
200
when looking at colors, some seem to be brighter, or purer than others
What is intensity?
200
printmaking method in which the image to be printed is drawn on limestone, sinc, or aluminum with a special greasy crayon
What is lithography?
200
art serves as a tool of persuasion or propaganda when it is used to convince people to adopt a certain point of view
What is politics?
200
holds that the most important aspect of a work of art is the effective use of the principles or art to arrange the elements of art
What is formalism?
300
oral historians who are also musicians and performers
What is griot?
300
lines made by the edge of an object or it's silhouette
What is outlines?
300
in paintings, what are the tools for media?
What is pigment, binder, solvent?
300
examples of two dimensional art media
What is pencil, paint, charcoal?
300
what quality is on how well the work is organized, or put together
What is design qualities?
400
represent most ancient mask form and closelly associate them with nature and with life's regenerative power
What is bwa people?
400
three dimensions; depth, length, and width
What is form?
400
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?
400
what are the art processes?
What is drawing, painting, printmaking, modeling, wearing, etc.
400
a branch of philosophy concerned with identifying the clues within artworks that can be used to understand, judge, and defend judgments about those works
What is aesthetics?
500
number of cultural groups on continent of Africa
What is 1,000?
500
follows consistent geometric rules for rendering objects as they appear to the human eye
What is linear perspective?
500
process in which ink is forced to fill lines cut into a metal surface
What is intaglio
500
gains information from and artwork
What is art critic?