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LINE
SHAPE and FORM
TEXTURE
VALUE and SPACE
ART and REALITY
100
A single line that composes an entire drawing
What is CONTINUOUS LINE?
100
This shape type is defined as 'natural' and is often irregular, with flowing curves and asymmetrical
What is ORGANIC?
100
Texture you can feel and see
What is ACTUAL TEXTURE?
100
Distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece.
What is SPACE?
100
Art that depicts objects or people by exaggerating one or more of the 7 elements of art
What is ABSTRACT ART?
200
Mark-making using patterns of short parallel lines. The overlapping of the patterned lines in order to create texture and value
What is HATCHING and CROSS HATCHING?
200
POSITIVE / NEGATIVE is also defined as this term:
What is FIGURE/GROUND?
200
Texture that does not directly represent the object it is connected with but the concept of the object is translated in textural patterns.
What is IMPLIED or INVENTED TEXTURE?
200
This scale measures values from white to black
What is a GRAY SCALE?
200
Art that depicts the actual appearance of things
What is REPRESENTATIONAL ART?
300
A loose, free and searching line that is often very expressive
What is GESTURAL LINE?
300
What two dimensions determine a SHAPE?
What are LENGTH and WIDTH?
300
Van Gogh used this texture in many of his paintings including SUNFLOWERS and STARRY NIGHT
What is IMPASTO?
300
This famous memorial emphasizes the importance of correct value lighting
What is the LINCOLN MEMORIAL?
300
This famous artist is known for his drips and splatters
Who is JACKSON POLLOCK
400
This artist does Line Installations in major Galleries by giving detailed instructions to students
Who is Sol Lewitt??
400
A three-dimensional geometrical figure (i.e.: sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, etc.), as opposed to a shape, which is two-dimensional, or flat.
What is a FORM?
400
A French term that literally means trick of the eye
What is TROMP L'OEIL?
400
This term literally means from 'Light to Dark'
What is Chiaroscuro
400
Art without refernce to anything. Art for Art's sake:
What is NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART?
500
This artist used a long thin pole to draw large scale renderings for stained glass windows in a church
Who is HENRI MATISSE?
500
This famous artist creates forms in space through the illusionary use of colored lights
Who is James Turrell?
500
This surreal artist used the actual texture of fur in her sculpture of a cup and saucer
Who is MERRET OPPENHEIM?
500
This surreal artist used a deep sense of implied space in his paintings to further his dreamlike imagery
Who is Salvador Dali?
500
This famous painting of a farmer, his wife and their pitchfork is known as
What is AMERICAN GOTHIC?