Art 8 - Final Test Review

Elements of Art - Line - the most basic element - can be curved, straight

thick or thin

Shape - circles, squares, triangles, etc.

Color - Red, yellow etc.

Form - Cones, cylinders, sphere, cube

Space - depth, positive, negative

Texture - real (sandpaper) or implied (patterns)

Perspective Drawing - a way of drawing to showdepth in a picture.

2 point perspective cubes, rooms and houses - when drawing, start with a corner line.

Horizon Line_________________________________________________________

Orthogonal Lines - any lines in a picture that lead to a vanishing point

Vanishing Point

A place in the distance where objects look like they disappear.

Horizon Line Your eye level

Surrealism- An Art style that startedin the early 1920’s

Surrealism uses the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions (unusual groupings).

Surrealist art pieces make absolutely no sense to the viewer, each viewer has their own idea about what the picture is about.

A Color Wheel consists of 12 colors.

3 Primary Colors3 Secondary Colors6 Intermediate Colors

Complementary Colors - opposite each other on the colorWheel Red - Green, Blue - Orange, Yellow - Violet

Positive Area - The main subjectof a picture

Negative Area - The backgroundspace of a picture

Concentric Design - Shapes having common centers

Franz Marc- German painter who likes using arbitrary colors (from his imagination) rather than natural colors (real colors seen in nature). He used complementary colors to make details stand out.

Value - Lightness or Darkness of a Color

Tint - adding white to lighten a color

Shade - adding black to darken a color

Monochromatic - a picture using one color and its tintsand shades

Radial Balance - A design that is balanced from the center point of a circle, outward.

made paintings that expressed:

Somberness

Melancholy

Sadness1901

Self Portrait

Pablo Picasso during his Blue Period

Figure Sculptures

Armature - the base on which a sculpture is built - we used rolled newspaper for our sculptures

Plaster - a powdered material that is mixed with water and dries sturdy and rigid..

George Segal was famous for his plastersculptures of ordinary scenes.

Gauze - thinly woven fabric

Drawing to scale – reproducing a picture exactly like the original only larger or smaller

Grid method of drawing – a way of drawing to scale where you use a grid and draw one square at a time

Scratch Art projects look like a stained glass window.