Formal Elements
Principles of Composition
Major Areas of Art
Art Within Visual Culture
Style Vocab
100
A drawn line having missing areas that are visually completed by the viewer.
What is an implied line?
100
The organization of the elements of an artwork in such a way that harmony, balance, unity, and variety are achieved.
What is composition?
100
Asks “for what purpose was this originally made?”
What is function?
100
This subject studies all of the visual components of contemporary culture, including fine art, television, advertising, and so on.
What is visual culture?
100
This style of art communicates heightened emotions and often a sense of urgency or spontaneity.
What is Expressionism?
200
Hues that are located directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
200
Visual equilibrium achieved when all the elements in a composition radiate outward from a central point.
What is Radial Balance?
200
The mass of ideas, symbols, and theories associated with a work of art
What is content?
200
What kind of art institutions are most closely associated with fine art?
What are museums and galleries?
200
This style contains entities from the world in recognizable form.
What is Representational?
300
The art element that is involved in performances or video work, or is required in the viewing of static artwork.
What is time?
300
A form of repetitive beats that are usually seen in a composition as a pattern. This is accomplished by repeating one or more of the formal elements in the organization of a work.
What is rhythm?
300
Involves the look and feel of an artwork and the attributes that elevate it above other objects.
This will change based on geographic region, time period, culture, material, function etc.
What is aesthetics?
300
Which category of visual culture is considered the fastest growing?
What is popular culture?
300
This consists of recurring and distinctive features that we see in many works of art emanating from a particular place and era
What is a cultural style?
400
A physical surface variation that can be perceived by the sense of touch.
What is tactile texture?
400
The apparent size of an object or image that is measured by comparing it to other objects and images that are recognized as being normal sized.
What is scale?
400
Communicates to the viewer how a work is arranged, created, and composed
What is Visual Form?
400
This is an example of what subcategory of pop culture?
What is kitsch?
400
This style of art contains forms that are completely generated by the artist, representing something not common or unknown.
What is Non-representational
500
A system of rendering the illusion of three-dimensional depth on a flat, two-dimensional surface.
What is perspective?
500
A method of construction that uses posts to support a crossbeam that can bear the weight of the roof.
What is post and lintel system?
500
These principles make up Visual Form, and offer a vocabulary to use when analyzing art.
What are the Formal Elements?
500
This specific area of visual culture is define by its medium, such as ceramics, glass, jewelry, weaving, and woodworking.
What is craft?
500
This style of art refers to art with a bizarre or fantastic arrangement of images or materials, as if tapping into the workings of the unconscious mind
What is Surrealism?