Vocabulary of Art

InstructorProf. Shu-Chuan Chen

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QUOTATIONS ABOUT ART, SAYINGS FOR ARTISTS

Part I

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt,

and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. .

It releases tension needed for his work.

Henry Moore

Edgar Degas

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Oscar Wilde

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality

Frida Kahlo

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Camille Claudel

Niki de Saint Phalle

Life … is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don’t expect it.

ART ELEMENTS

Part II

Line

Line = A line is a path left by a moving point

• What are the functions of line?

• What are types of lines?

• What are the characteristics of line/direction and quality?

Kelly’s applesTo outline a shape

Cezanne’s treesTo create movement and emphasis

Steinberg’s HenTo develop pattern and texture

Steinberg

Steinberg

To shade and model

crosshatching stippling

Characteristics of line/direction and quality

horizontal and vertical lines diagonal lines

Shape and Mass

Shape is a two dimensional area with identifiable boundaries.Mass is a three-dimensional solid with identifiable boundaries.

Volume may be synonymous with mass except that volume can also refer to a void as in an empty enclosed space.

• What are the two broad categories of both shape and mass?

Mondrain’s Red, Yellow and BlueAn example of geometric shapes

Franz Marc, Small Composition An example of an artwork that uses geometric and organic shapes.

3. Color - is a function of lightColor affects us both psychologicallyand physiologically in our response to it.

Light, Value and Color

1. Light - artists use natural light in architecture and sculpture to create shadow patterns over the

course of the day to create dramatic effects.

2. Value - is the lightness or darkness of a color

Color of wheel

• What responses do you get from color?

• What are the properties of the color wheel?

• What are the types of color harmonies?

Texture

Texture refers to surface quality.

• What are the two types of texture - Actual and Visual.

• 1. Actual refers to tactile or sense of touch a. Impasto technique of thick point, i.e.: Van Gogh's Starry Night.

• 2. Visual texture - refers to an illusion of texture.

Van Gogh’s Starry Night

SpaceThe two types of space are three dimensional and two dimensional.

The 2 types of space are 3 dimensional & 2 dimensional.

•1. three dimensional space - is the actual space an object takes up, our body, a house, a can or a sculpture. － An example is the Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum.

•2. two dimensional space – refers to the space in a painting, drawing, print or other type of flat art.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim museum

Three dimensional space

Three dimensional space

Six elements used in two dimensional space

•1. spatial organization

•2. illusion of depth

•3. linear perspective

•4. isometric perspective

•5. atmospheric perspective

•6. foreshortening

Spatial Organization

• refers to how we place forms in the picture to keep unity and balance in the composition, i.e.: Degas' Dancers at the Barre.

Degas’ Dancers at the Barre

Illusion of depth

• the illusion of three dimensional space in the picture plane

• 1. overlapping• 2. positioning

Marie Laurencin’s Group of ArtistsOverlapping is to place one figure over the other and stacking them in space.

Raphael ‘s The School of Athens Pictorial figures meant to be further away are placed higher in the composition.

Linear perspective

• the most realistic, a science of vision created in the 15th century in Italy.

Example of linear perspective

Da Vinci’s Last Supper

Isometric perspective

• where distant forms are made smaller and placed higher on the picture plane and parallel line stay parallel.

Kumano Mandala’s Japan ideal city

Atmospheric perspective

• forms meant to be farther away in the distance are blurred, become indistinct and misty.

Ansel Adams ‘ photography

foreshortening

• proportions are either shortened or lengthened to create an unusual angle to increase the illusion of depth.

Mantega's Death of Christ

Time and Motion

Two dimensional art freezes time. Three dimensional art, demands that you can walk around it and see 360' of different imagery

Time and Motion

• Two dimensional art freezes time, i.e.: Suzanne Valados Reclining Figure.

• Three dimensional art, demands that you can walk around it

and see 360' of different imagery – i.e.: El Corbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, the Illusion

of Motion is represented in OP Art or other works that repeat a figure to show motion, i.e.: Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.

Suzanne Valados’ Reclining FigureTwo dimensional art freezes time.

Giacomo Balla’s dynamism of a Dog on a LeashThree dimensional art, demands that you can walk around it and see 360' of different imagery.

VOCABULARY OF ART

Part III

Vocabulary of Art

InstructorProf. Shu-Chuan Chen

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Part I

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