FA 107 

  1. Subject – what the painting is about, LANDSCAPE – PORTRAIT – STILL LIFE

   

  1. Realistic - still lifes are usually very realistic
  2. Distorted - still lifes are sometimes distorted, when one aspect is exaggerated to make it look not realistic

       1. Expressionism (Style) - conveying an emotional experience rather than a realistic one

          1. Avant-garde Cline with abstract art  2. Impressionism (Style) - artist focuses on natural light and color, going for a psychological perception of (mostly) nature. Most are landscapes

          1. Monet!!! Waterlilies!!!

  1. Abstract - non-representational, does not try to portray anything realistic, not much that is identifiable

       1. Action Painting

  1. Surrealism - distorted images

Style - characteristics of a work of art that allows you to place it in a particular era, group of artists, or nation

  1. Styles of Realism

   

  1. Classic - adheres to traditional standards, very ordered, very stable, does not have a particular response, lots of geometric shapes, very two dimensional

       1. Halo overhead means that they are religious

  1. Romantic - movement that started in the 1700s, much more 3d, emphasis on imagination + emotion, a lot of flesh/skin showing, realistic, chiaroscuro = effect of putting light color next to a dark color to create 3d look.
    1.  Medium - pigment and how it is bound, 

   

  1. Oil - pigment bound in oil, dries very slow, brushstrokes can be hidden, more realistic, appears 3d,
  2. Acrylic - bound in plastic, dries very fast 5-10 min
  3. Fresco - bound in plaster, can be cleaned, artist can only work in small amt of space
  4. Ink - pigment bound in chemicals, dries very very quick
  5. Watercolor - bound in water
  6. Tempera - pigment bound in egg or glue, nice sheen to it, able to scratch through dry layers
    1.  Function of art - to show emotions, entertainment, 
    2.  Line and shape

   

  1. Cartoon and outline, distorted
  2. Distorted, color bounded
  3. Distorted, color bounded

   

  1. Straight - 
  2. Diagonal - create a sense of movement
  3. Horizontal - calm, tranquility, serenity, serene
  4. Vertical - very upright, rigid, stationary, stable, strength
  5.  Curved

       1. Quick, closed - very busy, a lot going on,  2. Slow, open - peaceful, sensual, relaxed, 

  1. Perspective - a tool used to create spacial relationships between objects in a painting, creates an illusion of distance. 

   

  1. Linear - uses lines that come together in the distance to show distance
  2. Foreshortening - where lines of an object are shortened to make it appear like it is projecting forward
  3. Aerial - uses light and atmosphere, meaning the further away something is, the less defined it is
    1. Color

   

  1. Hue - the color itself
  2. Intensity - pureness or saturation of a color
  3. Value - where it would fall on a scale from dark (low) to light (high)
    1. Composition

   

  1. Form

       1. Open focused - eyes can roll off the canvas, look for more painting 2. Closed

  1. Focal points/center of interest
  2. Organic unity
  3. Balance and contrast

       1. Asymmetrical - color, saturation, not balanced, very much contrast 2. Symmetrical - a mirror image

  1. Theme and variation

       1. Themes are repeated patterns or colors 2. Variations are the differences

  1. Organix unity - do all elements of the picture seem like they fit

Sculpture Notes

~~~ intended to be around for a very long time

~~~ ephemeral sculpture - exists for a moment in time and then it is gone

Christo and jeanne-claude

~~~ public art is art in any media whose form function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process

  1. Types of sculpture

   

  1. Full round - you can walk all the way around it, intended to be seen from all sides/angles
  2. Relief - intended to only be seen from one side

       1. High relief - protrudes from a background at least half the depth, maintains 2-d quality 2. Low relief - protrudes from a background less than half the depth, has a background and a 2-d quality

  1. Linear - emphasizes construction with thin elongated items

       1. Wire, thin metal, lightweight 2. Alexander Calder - famous for mobiles

  1. Process of Creation

   

  1. Subtraction - things are carved out of raw material
  2. Addition (constructive) - things are added to a sculpture/raw material
  3. Substitution - mold will be made of wax, then clay surrounded, melt the wax out, bronze filled in, then clay cracked off

       1. Any material that can be melted/changed into another thing

  1. Manipulation - modeling, shaping pliable materials such as clay, plastic or plaster by skilled use of hands
  2. Found
    1. Elements of composition

   

  1. Mass - how heavy is it
  2. Volume - how much space it takes up
  3. Line - diagonal, horizontal, vertical
  4. Form - active and non-active
  5. Color - saturation
  6. Texture - how does it look/feel
    1. Principles of the medium

   

  1. Proportion - can be messed with because of how it should be viewed
  2. Repetition
    1. Viewer response

   

  1. Subject
  2. Texture/touch - what does it feel like
  3. Aging - patina and what colors will form
  4. Dynamics
  5. Balance
  6. Size 
  7. Lighting - usually purposeful
  8. Environment - does it fit where it is