Visual Art: Elements, Forms, Purpose, Terms, Concepts (and some artists)

These lines in art create cohesiveness in artwork that may contain multiple subjects. Also called contour lines, these lines are predominantly found in Expressionists and Impressionists works like Naruto Whirlpool, Awa Province by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Gesture Lines

Who created Composition Xl using geometric shapes?

Doesburg

Who created the Harlequinn’s Carnival using geometric and organic shapes?

Joan Miro

Who made the Rococco painting in his series Marriage a la Mode using two-point perspective called The Marriage Contract?

Hogarth

Who made the woodcut Tower of Babel using three point-perspective otherwise known as oblique perspective?

Escher

What artist used foreshortening in his painting called the Lamentation of Christ?

Mantegna

Who made The Separation of Light from Darkness?

Michelangelo

Who used deep and shallow space in order to create Delivery of the Keys?

Perugino

Shallow space is demonstrated in what artist’s painting of The Portuguese?

Braque

What art element is the color as distinguished from any other color such as the names assigned to the colors like red, green, or blue?

Hue

This element represents the shade of lightness a hue possesses. Sometimes called the luminosity of color, the value is represented on a color gradient chart from light to dark. When white is mixed with a huge its called tint and when black is mixed with a huge its called shade.

Value

This element is the brightness or dullness of a hue. The purer the hue, the higher the saturation or ____.

Intensity

Colors found opposite from one another on the color wheel are…

Complimentary Colors

Colors located beside each other on the color wheel are…

Analogous Colors

All art elements are line, shape, space, form, value, color, and ____

Texture

Who painted Harriet Tubman Series No. 4 with zigzag lines?

Jacob Lawrence

All art Elements are:

Line, shape, form, space, color, value, texture

All art principals:

Balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, proportion, rhythm, unity, variety

Who painted The Delivery of Keys?

Perugino

The Munsell Color System includes:

hue, value, chroma

Framework on which a sculpture is molded with clay or other material

Armature

Sculpture consisting of different objects and materials arranged in a composition

Assemblage

Art period from ~1600 – 1750 – began in Rome as part of the Counter-Reformation –

included art and music – takes its name from the Portuguese term meaning “misshapen”

or “broken” pearl – Palace of Versailles, an excellent example of Baroque architecture –

Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Velazquez, Van Dyck, Poussin, Castiglioni, Vermeer)

Baroque

Method of dyeing cloth that originated in Indonesia – uses fabric coated with wax

Batik

Material that holds together colored pigments to form paint – can be egg yolk or animal glue

Binder

Sharp tool used for engraving

Burin

Sculpting process of pouring melted metal or other liquid into a mold to harden (Remington’s works used this process)

Casting

Imitating the art of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures – Idealized beauty, restraint, harmony, and balance were important characteristics of this art form.

Classicism

Sculpture designed to make the viewer a part of the art as they are invited to enter the work and walk through it – Famous artists: Goldsworthy, Eliasson, and Denes

Environmental Art

Printing method in which metal plate is placed in acid to create the lines of the image – then print made from the inked plate – Famous: Knight, Death, and the Devil (Durer); Hundred Gilder Print (Rembrandt)

Etchings

Predominantly functional or utilitarian visual art created by hand for use by the maker or small community and contains an element of cultural retention

Folk Art

Art movement that emerged as a response to Post-Impressionism – focused on analyzing

and comparing various forms and styles of art – placed emphasis on the seven elements of

art as being the most critical aspects of art as these elements created the visual and aesthetic

quality of an artwork

Formalism

Unfired pottery

Greenware

Art movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s in which edges of shapes are crisp and

precise – known for the economy of form, full color, and smooth surface planes

Hard-edge painting

Collection of particular types of images used by artists to communicate deeper meanings

in artworks – the identification, description, classification, and interpretation of symbols,

themes, and subject matter in visual arts

Iconography

Aesthetic theory of art that applies to realistic-looking artworks – contains recognizable,

realistic-looking objects and scenes that closely imitate real-world objects

Imitationalism

1960s visual art movement that focused on the primary elements of art – developed in

response to Abstract Expressionism – Characteristic descriptions of include:

reductionist, simplicity, clean, smooth line, objective as opposed to expressive and abstract

– Frank Stella is the premier forerunner of - Black Paintings (1959) Stella

Minimalism

Significant umbrella term for art movements from the late 1800s – early 1970s that

focused on individual style and artistic process rather than reproducing the world as it

appears – Includes such movements as impressionism, fauvism, expressionism, cubism,

Dadaism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism

Modernism

Repeated image, pattern, or theme in order to create visual rhythm

Motif

Art movement of the 1800s advocating realistic depiction of objects in their natural settings

– Famous naturalist artists: Cole, Constable, Courbet, Millet

Naturalism

Body of work constituting the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer

Ouvre

First group of photographers that called themselves artists and were generally trained

painters – especially active during the last part of the 19th century – they considered their

photographs to be picture paintings

Pictorialists