Art Appreciation Module 1

Calligraphy

Handwriting as a form of art.

Subject Matter

What the image literally depicts.

Content

What the image expresses or means.

Iconography

The study or description of images and symbols.

Iconoclasts

Image breakers.

Photorealistic

A drawing or painting is so realistic in appearance that it appears to be a photograph.

Representational art

Any work of art that seeks to resemble the world of natural appearance.

Realism

The more the representation resembles what the eye sees the more it is said to be an example of realism.

Abstract

In art the rendering of images and objects in a stylized or simplified way, so that they remain recognizable their formal or expressive aspects are emphasized.

Nonobjective

Art that makes no reference to the natural world and that explores the inherent expressive or aesthetic potential of the formal elements- line, shape, color, and the formal compositional principles of a given medium.

Naturalism

A brand of representation in which the artist retains apparently elements but presents the visual world from a distinctly personal or subjective point of view.

Symbols

Images that represent something more than their literal meaning.

Avant-garde

From the French “advance guard” or “vanguard” - those whose innovations are advance of their time.