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Sculpture in the round
Freestanding can be walked completely around and seen from multiple viewing points
Relief Sculpture
Design carved into or projecting from a background
High Relief
Form project far from the background
Low relief
Forms project only slightly from their background
Sunken Relief
Forms carved or sunken, into the background they do not project at all (Example; Hieroglyphs)
Medium/Media
What the art object is made of
Technique
The way the artist handles the material
Additive Method
Building up a form from a material
Subtractive Method
Taking away material from an existing block
Formal Elements
The visual aspects of a work of art (Line, color, texture, space, and composition)
Line
Narrow, elongated dash or mark made by a pencil, pen, paintbrush , or chisel; The path traced by a moving point
Color
Combination of pigments used in a painting
Hue
The name of the color
Value/Tonality
Degree of lightness or darkness of the color
Insensity/ Saturation
The purity of a color; its brightness or dullness
Value
Saturation
Shading
gradual transition from light to dark ( creates a sense of 3D)
Texture
The tactile (touch percieved) quality of a surface
Space (Scuplture)
The unlimited three dimensional realm in which all material objects are located
Space (painting)
The illusion of depth on a two dimensional surface
Proportion
Relationship from one part to another, or one part of the whole
Composition
How the artist arranges or organizes forms in an artwork ( The plan!)
Balance
The distribution of objects within the compostion
Symmetry
Forms dirstrubted equally (bilaterally)
Asymmetry
Forms distributed unequally
Radial Balance
Forms extending equally from the center of a circle
Foreshortening
Representing an object at an angle so that it
conveys the illusion of depth
