Honors Art Final

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4 categories of Art
Realism, Creative Realism, Abstract, Non-Objective
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Realism
realistic like a photo
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Creative Realism
the artist's own style of realism
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Abstract
has a subject but is distorted
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Non-Objective
no subject at all (lines, colors, shapes, etc)
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Thumbnail Sketch
small, quick image
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Storyboard
Sequential drawings usually used in advertising or video
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Logo
Symbol for a company or brand
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Perspective
showing depth in a picture
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Composition
the arrangement of art elements in a picture
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Chiaroscuro
Italian, the principle of light and shade
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Primary color
red, yellow, blue (cant make the colors)
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Color Wheel
ROY G. BIV
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Proportion
relative size
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highlight
reflection of light
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medium
medium used by an artist to create his work
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Color field painting
large saturated areas of color wash
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What did Modern Artists believe?
That art did not have to be representational and that art did not necessarily need a subject
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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
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Vasilly Kandinsky
Russian, influenced by Monet. Vigorous physical force, color used as form
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Williem DeKooning
Dutch, physical energy used in painting, gestural painting, Woman series
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Surrealism
early 20th century art movement linking fantasy to the subconscious influenced by Freud, used accidental and automatic effects
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Salvador Dali
Spanish surrealist, used realism in Fantastic ways, Persistence of Memory
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Paul Klee
Swiss Surrealist, precise language of signs, Twittering Machine
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Modern Art
1950s Art Movement
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pointillism
a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye.
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Vanishing Point
point is a point in space, usually located on the horizon, where parallel edges of an object appear to converge.
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subliminal
hidden symbols in a "text" that are meant to appeal to your subconscious mind
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modeling
the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior
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6 Art Elements
line, shape, form, color, texture, space
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Gargoyles
Grotesque flying statues at the roof of a church or cathedral, used as rain spouts.
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Flying Buttress
an arched stone support on the outside of buildings, which allows builders to construct higher walls
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Mosaics
Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
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Sfumato
Italian for "smoky", technique used to blend details to look more realistic
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Triangular (Pyramid) Composition
a compositional arrangement in an art piece that draws the viewers' eyes to important parts of the work
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Secondary Colors
orange, green, purple
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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
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Complementary Colors
Colors located directly opposite one another on the color wheel
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Warm Colors
red, orange, yellow
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Cold Colors
green, purple, blue
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Color Value
The lightness or darkness of a color
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Color Intensity
The brightness or dullness of a color
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Egyptian Art
hieroglyphics and images in their art forms and depicted important figures, like pharaohs, larger than women and servants.
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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
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Greek Art Periods
Archaic, Early Classical, Golden Age, Late Classical, Hellenisitc
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Greek Architecture
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
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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.
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Early Classical Art
480-450 BCE, estrained harmony, proportional beauty, and idealization
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Golden Age
Time when the Greek philosophy, art, science & architecture flourished. Much of the Greek culture has been adopted around the world.
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Late Classical Art
400-323 BCE. Humanized deities, athletes, and heroes. Musculature.
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Hellenistic
323-31 BCE (3rd, 2nd, 1st centuries) Art displays strong sense of movement and emotion. No longer focused on the ideal.
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Doric
This style of column features simple, heavy columns without bases.
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Ionic
Elegant style with thinner columns and undecorated capitals.
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Corinthian
elongated capitals that are decorated with leaves
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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.
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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.
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Gothic
of the middle ages; of or relating to a mysterious, grotesque, and desolate style of fiction
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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
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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.
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Baroque
An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements (Italian)
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Impressionism
An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing
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Post-Impressionism
An artistic movement that expressed world that could not normally be seen, like dreams and fantasy.
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Cubism
A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes
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Surrealism
An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images
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Braque
co-founder of Cubism, worked together on developing the movement
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Da Vinci
Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, universal man
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Universal Man
This was the term given to those in the Renaissance who were able to excel in more than one subject matter
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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.
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Raphael
(1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.
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Caravaggio
Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light
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Rembrandt Van Rijn
greatest Dutch artists of the period; painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants
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El Greco
Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)
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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.
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Renoir
Luncheon of the Boating Party, impressionism
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Monet
French Impressionist Painter
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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
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Degas
French Painter, Impressionism, did horses and ballet dancers
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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
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Van Gogh
Post-Impressionism, dutch
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Picasso
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
American artist that painted flowers and landscapes during the great depression.
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Duchamp
French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art
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Ernst
German painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet/prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe
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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
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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.
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Grant Wood
American gothic
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MC Escher
Artist who used optical illusions in many of his graphic art designs, and created intricate tessellations
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Van Eyck
Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)
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“Christina’s World”
Wyeth, young woman seen from behind, wearing a pink dress and lying in a grassy field, egg tempera
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“Sunflowers”
Van Gogh, sunflowers in a vase, oil paint
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“Popiars at Giverny”
Monet, tall trees, oil paint
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“Waterlillies” series
Monet, 250 oil paintings, flower garden at his home in Giverny, oil paint
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Ballet Paintings
Degas, multiple ballet dancers practicing
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“Night Watch”
Rembrandt, group portrait of a company of civic guardsmen
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“Sistene Chapel”
Michelangelo, fresco
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Mona Lisa
Da Vinci, oil paint
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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.
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“Broadway Boogie Woogie”
Mondrian, modern/asbtract, oil paint
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“Guernica”
Picasso, oil paint, a large black-and-white painting following the German bombing of Guernica, a city in Spain's Basque region
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“Persistence of Memory”
Dali, melting clocks
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