Unit 2 Review

What are the principles of design?

• Unity

• Variety

• Balance

• Emphasis & Focal Point

• Proportion & Scale

• Rhythm

The sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole.

Unity

Differences that provide interest and contrast.

Variety

Art unified through a unity of ideas.

Conceptual Unity

The implied center of gravity is the vertical axis, this deals with?

Symmetrical Balance

Georgia O’ Keefe. Deer’s Skull with Pedernal

This is an example of?

Relieved Symmetry

Newar artists at Densatil Monastery, Central Tibet

This piece is a…

Symmetry piece

Fridia Kahlo. The Two Fridas.

This piece is a…

Relieved Symmetry piece

Gustav Klimt. Death and Life

This is an example of?

Asymmetrical Balance

Joseph Mallord William Turner; The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

This piece is a…

An example of Asymmetrical Balance

Edouard Manet. A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

Balance does what?

• Encourages our active participation in looking.

• Leads your eyes around the work, artists structure the experience.

• Helps to communicate a mood or meaning.

Henry Ossawa Tanner. The Banjo Lesson

This is an example of?

Emphasis & Subordination

Francisco de Goya. Execution of the Third of May, 1808

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Plantoir

To size relationships between parts of a whole, or between two or more items perceived as a unit

Proportion

What did Egyptians use as a unit of measurement?

The palm of hand & squared grid

Use of unnatural proportions to show relative importance of figures

Hierarchical Scale

A royal altar to the hand (ikegobo)

This is an example of?

Hierarchical Scale

The group that El Greco was apart of believed what?

The flickering light of the candle flame was beautiful because of its extended, twisting contours.

Leonardo da Vinci. Study of Human Proportions according to Vitruvius

Le Corbusier. The Modulor

This piece used what?

Two overlapping golden sections

Lorna Simpson. Still from Easy to Remember

Edward Hopper. Early Sunday morning

This piece shows what?

Rhythm & Repetition

Maya Lin. Storm King Wavefield

Pablo Picasso. Girl Before a Mirror

What are the two qualities associated with drawing?

Familiarity and Intimacy

Pablo Picasso’s composition study for Guernica

This is an example of?

A Gesture drawing

What did Picasso do to all his drawings?

Dated them all to keep a record of them.

Frank O Gehry. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

This piece is a…

Gesture drawing

Powdered coloring material

Pigment

Substance that holds pigment together

Binder

Beautiful writing

Calligraphy

Calligraphic lines that suggest movement

Gesture

Focus on the idea

Conceptual

Art that involves ceiling, wall and floor

Installation

Pencil (graphite), metal point, Charcoal, Chalk & Crayon (pastel)

Dry Media

Pen & Ink/ Brush & Ink Wash

Liquid Media

Use of the computer

Digital

Leonardo Da Vinci. Star of Bethlehem and Other Plants

This piece is a….

Transfer Drawing

Leonardo da Vinci kept what?

A Sketchbook

Who were credited for inventing paper?

The Chinese

Chris Ofili. Prince among Thieves with Flowers

Technique popular during the Renaissance

Metalpoint

Filippino Lippi. Figure Studies: standing Nude and seated man reading

This is an example of?

MetalPoint

Yvonne Jacquette. Three Mile Island

How was this created?

Charcoal on laminated tracing

What is the main difference between chalk & crayon?

The Binder

The substance that holds particles of pigment together

Binder

Georges Seurat. Café Concert

This piece is…

Imitating pointillism with conte crayon.

Rembrandt. Cottage among Trees

Julie Mehretu drawings (new constructions) #1

Henri Matisse. Dahlias, Pomegranates, and Palm

Paul Noble. Nobspital

Raymond Pettibon. Installation at Regen Projects

How was this piece created?

• Drew directly on wall

• Made drawings on paper and attached to wall

• Add text to confuse meaning

Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawing #912

This piece is a…

Conceptual Drawing

Elise Engler. Everything they let me draw

Gary Simmons. Boom

A surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper

Matrix

The artist does not work directly on the work of art, he creates the surface that makes the work of art

Indirect Process

What is each image in a print called?

An impression and is considered an original work of art

What are the four basic methods of making a print?

• Relief

• Intaglio

• Lithography

• Screen printing

Raised areas holds the ink

Relief

Carved areas hold the ink

Intaglio

The image area holds ink, the non-image areas repel ink.

Lithography

Ink passes through areas of screen that are not blocked

Screen printing

Albrecht Durer. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series

This is an example of?

Relief Print

Chuck Close. Self Portrait

Rockwell Kent. Workers of the World. Unite!

This piece is a…

Wood engraving

A reverse process in which the artist works from dark to light

Mezzotint

A variation of etching and is a way of achieving flat areas of value or tone

Aquatint

Pablo Picasso. At the Circus

This is an example of?

Drypoint

Louise Bourgeois. Hard Climb

Rembrandt. Christ Preaching

This is an example of?

Etching

Mary Cassatt. Woman Bathing

This piece displays…

Drypoint and Aquatint

Who accidentally created Lithography and when?

Alois Senefelder in 1798

Kathe Kollwitz. Death and the Mother

This is an example of?

Lithography

Elizabeth Catlett. Singing Their Songs