Honors Art Final

4 categories of Art

Realism, Creative Realism, Abstract, Non-Objective

Realism

realistic like a photo

Creative Realism

the artist's own style of realism

Abstract

has a subject but is distorted

Non-Objective

no subject at all (lines, colors, shapes, etc)

Thumbnail Sketch

small, quick image

Storyboard

Sequential drawings usually used in advertising or video

Logo

Symbol for a company or brand

Perspective

showing depth in a picture

Composition

the arrangement of art elements in a picture

Chiaroscuro

Italian, the principle of light and shade

Primary color

red, yellow, blue (cant make the colors)

Color Wheel

ROY G. BIV

Proportion

relative size

highlight

reflection of light

medium

medium used by an artist to create his work

Color field painting

large saturated areas of color wash

What did Modern Artists believe?

That art did not have to be representational and that art did not necessarily need a subject

Piet Mondrian

Dutch, influenced by Cezanne, used primary colors black grid over colors, search for pure art, tension represented by vertical/horizontal. "Plastic Mathematics" Broadway Boogie Woogie

Vasilly Kandinsky

Russian, influenced by Monet. Vigorous physical force, color used as form

Williem DeKooning

Dutch, physical energy used in painting, gestural painting, Woman series

Surrealism

early 20th century art movement linking fantasy to the subconscious influenced by Freud, used accidental and automatic effects

Salvador Dali

Spanish surrealist, used realism in Fantastic ways, Persistence of Memory

Paul Klee

Swiss Surrealist, precise language of signs, Twittering Machine

Modern Art

1950s Art Movement

pointillism

a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye.

Vanishing Point

point is a point in space, usually located on the horizon, where parallel edges of an object appear to converge.

subliminal

hidden symbols in a "text" that are meant to appeal to your subconscious mind

modeling

the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior

6 Art Elements

line, shape, form, color, texture, space

Gargoyles

Grotesque flying statues at the roof of a church or cathedral, used as rain spouts.

Flying Buttress

an arched stone support on the outside of buildings, which allows builders to construct higher walls

Mosaics

Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass

Sfumato

Italian for "smoky", technique used to blend details to look more realistic

Triangular (Pyramid) Composition

a compositional arrangement in an art piece that draws the viewers' eyes to important parts of the work

Secondary Colors

orange, green, purple

Tertiary Colors

Created by mixing a primary color with a neighboring secondary color/ EX: yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green

Complementary Colors

Colors located directly opposite one another on the color wheel

Warm Colors

red, orange, yellow

Cold Colors

green, purple, blue

Color Value

The lightness or darkness of a color

Color Intensity

The brightness or dullness of a color

Egyptian Art

hieroglyphics and images in their art forms and depicted important figures, like pharaohs, larger than women and servants.

King Tut

A young king whose tomb was filled with jewelry, robes, burial masks, and ivory statues. These findings have helped people learn about Egypt's past

Greek Art Periods

Archaic, Early Classical, Golden Age, Late Classical, Hellenisitc

Greek Architecture

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

Archaic Art

600-480 BCE (7th & 6th centuries). Influenced by Egyptian art. figures are stiff, archaic smile, naturalism, interest in accuracy of ideal human form.

Early Classical Art

480-450 BCE, estrained harmony, proportional beauty, and idealization

Golden Age

Time when the Greek philosophy, art, science & architecture flourished. Much of the Greek culture has been adopted around the world.

Late Classical Art

400-323 BCE. Humanized deities, athletes, and heroes. Musculature.

Hellenistic

323-31 BCE (3rd, 2nd, 1st centuries) Art displays strong sense of movement and emotion. No longer focused on the ideal.

Doric

This style of column features simple, heavy columns without bases.

Ionic

Elegant style with thinner columns and undecorated capitals.

Corinthian

elongated capitals that are decorated with leaves

Medieval Art

A kind of art in which subjects are religious, figures look flat and stiff, important figures are large, subjects are clothed with little emotion, and it is flat and two dimensional with a single color background.

Bayeux Tapestry

A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings, A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.

Gothic

of the middle ages; of or relating to a mysterious, grotesque, and desolate style of fiction

Early Renaissance

a style of Italian Renaissance art and architecture developed during the 15th century, characterized by the development of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and in buildings, by the free and inventive use of classical details

High Renaissance

A period beginning in the late 15th century, it produced some of the most well-known religious and secular artwork of the period from such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

Baroque

An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements (Italian)

Impressionism

An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing

Post-Impressionism

An artistic movement that expressed world that could not normally be seen, like dreams and fantasy.

Cubism

A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes

Surrealism

An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images

Braque

co-founder of Cubism, worked together on developing the movement

Da Vinci

Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, universal man

Universal Man

This was the term given to those in the Renaissance who were able to excel in more than one subject matter

Michelangelo

(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

Raphael

(1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.

Caravaggio

Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light

Rembrandt Van Rijn

greatest Dutch artists of the period; painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants

El Greco

Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)

Berthe Morisot

(January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the first league of Impressionist painters.

Renoir

Luncheon of the Boating Party, impressionism

Monet

French Impressionist Painter

Manet

one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism

Degas

French Painter, Impressionism, did horses and ballet dancers

Seurat

French post-Impressionist artist, devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface

Van Gogh

Post-Impressionism, dutch

Picasso

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

Georgia O'Keeffe

American artist that painted flowers and landscapes during the great depression.

Duchamp

French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art

Ernst

German painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet/prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe

Andrew Wyeth

American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style and was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century

Norman Rockwell

A twentieth-century American artist and illustrator, known for his warm-hearted paintings of rural and small-town life in the united States. Many of his paintings appeared cover illustrations for the magazine The Saturday Evening Post.

Grant Wood

American gothic

MC Escher

Artist who used optical illusions in many of his graphic art designs, and created intricate tessellations

Van Eyck

Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)

“Christina’s World”

Wyeth, young woman seen from behind, wearing a pink dress and lying in a grassy field, egg tempera

“Sunflowers”

Van Gogh, sunflowers in a vase, oil paint

“Popiars at Giverny”

Monet, tall trees, oil paint

“Waterlillies” series

Monet, 250 oil paintings, flower garden at his home in Giverny, oil paint

Ballet Paintings

Degas, multiple ballet dancers practicing

“Night Watch”

Rembrandt, group portrait of a company of civic guardsmen

“Sistene Chapel”

Michelangelo, fresco

Mona Lisa

Da Vinci, oil paint

Twittering Machine

Klee, watercolor and pen and ink oil transfer,  loosely sketched group of birds on a wire or branch connected to a hand-crank.

“Broadway Boogie Woogie”

Mondrian, modern/asbtract, oil paint

“Guernica”

Picasso, oil paint, a large black-and-white painting following the German bombing of Guernica, a city in Spain's Basque region

“Persistence of Memory”

Dali, melting clocks