Art exam

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Stonehenge

Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh

Mona Lisa By Leonardo da Vinci

Campbells Soup cans by Andy Warhol

Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride By Jan van Eyck

Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin

Liberty Leading the people by Eugene Delacroix

The Oxbow by Thomas Cole

Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson

Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

Le Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Augusta Renoir

A Sunday afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Woman holding a Balance by Jan Vermeer

Doryphoros by Polykleitos

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci

Colossal Head of Constantine

Third of May, 1808 by Francisco de Goya

Las Meninas by Diego Velasquez

Number one by Jackson Velasquez

Phil by Chuck Close

The Great Wave by Hokusai

St Jerome in his Study by Albrecht Durer

Gold Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol

Migrant mother by Dorothea Lange

Laocoon and His Sons

Piety by Michelangelo

The Thinker by Augusta Rodin

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

The Pantheon, Rome

Tan Mahal, Agra,India

Dome of Florence Cathedral by Filipino Brunelleschi

Crystal Palace, London, England

by Joseph Paxton

Sagrada Família

by Antoni Gaudi

 

Fallingwater, Bear Run, PA

by Frank Lloyd Wright

abstract art

art that distances itself from external representations

Propaganda

art used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

acrylic paint

asynthetic, quick

action painting

nonrepresentational painting in which the physical act of applying paint to a support in bold, spontaneous gestures supplies the expressive content.

aesthetics

a branch of philosophy concerned with the feelings aroused in us by sensory experiences such as seeing and hearing.

allegorical figure

a character that represents abstract meanings or ideas

assembling

sculpting technique involving materials joined together

asymmetrical balance

where equilibrium is achieved by the balance differences in the art elements within a composition

atmospheric perspective

based on the observation that distant objects appear less distinct, paler, and bluer than nearby objects because of the way moisture in the intervening atmosphere scatters light

balance

the distribution of visual weight within a composition

calligraphy

From the Greek for “beautiful writing,” handwriting considered as an art, especially as practiced in China, Japan, and Islamic cultures

canon

specific aspects of. culture that are established as crucial, of the utmost importance or exemplary. Polykleitos' Doryphoros was considered the "canon" because to the Greeks, it perfectly. expressed the proportions of the human body

caption edge

edge formation created by a body of text

carving

sculpting technique involving the chipping away of stone

casting

sculpting technique where the material poured into a mold

chalk pastel

a coloured drawing medium made from pure coloured pigment mixed with a binder to form a stick; easily blended on the paper by smudging; have a chalk

chroma

a quality of color combining hue and saturation

color schemes

an arrangement or combination of colors that are used in design because they are harmonious

complementary colors

the opposite hues on the color wheel (orange/blue, green/red, purple/yellow)

contrapposto

a sculptural scheme, originated by the ancient Greeks, in which the standing human figure is poised such that the weight rests on one leg, freeing the other leg, which is bent at the knee.

cross hatching

to shade or hatch (forms, figures, etc) with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross one another

Daguerreotype

The first practical photographic process. Invented by Jacques Louis Mandé Daguerre and made public in 1839, it produced a single permanent image directly on a prepared copper plate

focal point

is the element in a work that pulls in the viewer's eye, that is the center of attention or the main subject.

foreshortening

the technique of depicting an object or human body in a picture so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space.

fresco painting

A painting medium in which colors are applied to a plaster ground, usually a wall

glazes (ceramics)

liquid that, upon fi ring, fuses into a vitreous (glasslike) coating, sealing the porous clay surface. Colored glazes are used to decorate ceramics

Golden Ratio/ golden mean/golden section

1:1.618... In mathematics, two quantities are in the Golden Ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. The Golden Ratio can be seen all over living organisms, and tends to be an aesthetically

graphic design

the art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books.

graphite

a form of carbon and leaves a shiny metallic gray color on a surface when moved across it. It can be removed with an eraser (aka: lead pencil)

hatching

an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines.

hierarchical scale

a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork

hue

the true color or name of the true color

humanism

a system of thought that focuses on humans and their values, capacities, and worth.

iconography

“writing with images” / symbols related to something

kiln

a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing potterye

linear perspective

a drawing method that shows how things appear to get smaller as they get further away, converging towards a single 'vanishing point' on the horizon line.

lintel

a horizontal block that rests on two vertical supports

manifest destiny

the 19th

modeling

sculpting technique using clay molded to create a form

negative space

the area around and between a subject

nonrepresentational art

refers to compositions which do not rely on representation of anything from nature

oculus

a round or eye

oil paint

a thick, slow

oil pastel

a painting and drawing medium with characteristics similar to pastels and wax crayons

optical color mixture

a phenomenon that happens when a viewer perceives color in an image as a result of two or more colors that are positioned next to, or near each other.

orphans (also called widows)

a very short line – usually one word at the end of a paragraph or column

propaganda

art used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

proportion

size relationships between parts of a whole, or between two or more items perceived as a unit; also, the size relationship between an object and its surroundings.

ready made/found object

everyday manufactured object that may by the creative act of selection and designation by an artist attain status as a work of art:

relief printmaking

a process consisting of cutting a printing surface in such a way that all that remains of the original surface is the design to be printed

rhythm/movement

a visual beat, the rate in which our eye moves across a work of art

rule of thirds

applied by aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section.

scale

size in relation to some “normal” or constant size.

scoring

to scratch hatch marks into it as part of joining clay pieces together.

secondary colors

a color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors.

site

specific

stippling

process of drawing using numerous small dots or specks

sublime

refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation

symmetrical balance

occurs when equal weights are on equal sides of a composition, balanced around a fulcrum or axis in the center

vanishing point

the spot on the horizon line to which the receeding parallel lines diminish.

vanitas

a still life artwork which includes various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods and pleasures.

visual unity

the result of bringing the elements of art into appropriate ratio between harmony and variety to give a sense of oneness.

visual weight

a measure of the force that an element exerts to attract the eye.

wash

a term for a visual arts technique resulting in a semi

watercolor

a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water