Week 2September 13

What are we doing?Review previous information

2-D design and artworkPaintingDrawingMuralsAirbrushPrintmaking

Elements of ArtLine

Types of line/line variation?Line in 3-D?

Shape3-D Object

Time & MotionTime is invisibleStopped time?Harold Edgerton?

LightChiaroscuro?

ColorColor theory?Primary/Secondary

TextureActual texture?Simulated (implied)?Meret Oppenheim?

Principles of DesignUnity & Variety

Too much or too little?

BalanceSymmetrical vs. asymmetrical

Directional Forces-------|/

Emphasis & SubordinationContrast

Juxtaposition

Repetition & RhythmScale & Proportion

“Shuttlecocks”“Pieta” by Michelangelo

What is 2-D Art?Name some examples/mediums

DrawingAs children, we draw long before we learn how to read and write.Why is this so and why don’t more people draw now?It is a way of paying attentionVisual thinking

1st grade peacock drawing

Dr. Frederick FranckI have learned that what I have not

drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle; the branching of a tree, the structure of a dandelion’s seed puff.

- The Zen of Seeing by Dr. Frederick Franck

“The Eyes of the Law” by Elizabeth Layton

Vincent van Gogh

Purpose of DrawingA drawing can function in 3 ways:

As a notation, sketch or record of something seen, remembered, or imaginedAs a study or preparation for another, usually larger, and more complex work such as a sculpture, a building, a film, a painting, or another drawingAs an end itself, a complete work of art

Types of HatchingCross-Hatching

Contour Hatching

Hatching

“Preacher” by Charles White in 1952

Which is a REAL cartoon?According to art professionals

Real Cartoon

“Guernica” by Pablo Picasso in 1937

PaintingPainting is just drawing with paintTypes of paint:

WatercolorTempraEncausticOilAcrylic Fresco

“Sloop, Nassau” by Winslow Homer; 1899

TemperaUsed by ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and RomansMiddle ages – small paintings made on wood panelsEgg tempera – creates a matte lookToday: tempera is a water based paint

“Madonna and Child” by Fra Filippo Lippi; c. 1440-1445

Oil PaintWestern art – favorite medium for 5 centuriesGlowing jewel-like surfacesOil paint is very slow-dryingImpasto – applied thickly; can see the texture of the paint

“Madonna and Child with the Chancellor Rolin” by Jan van Eyck; 1433

“Detail of Self-Portrait” by Rembrandt