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An Introduction to the Arts
Created By: Pamela Butler
Introduction
Visual arts Music Dance Theatre/Drama Pre-Renaissance It is important that we become
literate in the languages of the arts. WHY?
What artists use to express “Reality”
Part 1 We will meet the traditional art
disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, music, theatre, cinema, dance, architecture, and literature.
Each of the disciplines have their own language---terms and definitions
Part I Outline Pictures: drawings, painting,
printmaking, and photography Sculpture Music Theatre Cinema Dance Architecture Literature
Pictures: drawings, painting, printmaking, and photography
What are They? Let’s find out…draw me a picture.
Drawing the foundation of
two-dimensional art
Involves a wide variety of materials---dry media and wet media
Wash & brush
Dry Media chalk charcoal graphite pastel
Wet Media pen & ink wash & brush
Painting Oils Watercolor Tempera Acrylics Fresco Gouache
Starry Night By Vincent van Gogh
Printmaking relief printing –
woodcut, wood engraving, & linoleum cut
intaglio (in-TAH-lyoh) – etching, aquatint, & drypoint
planographic process – lithography, silkscreen, & stencilingAlbrecht Durer's
Lamentation
Photography
A matter of personal record. The photographer has the choice of size,
texture, and value contrast. Bring in three photographs that you have taken.
Pictures: drawings, painting, printmaking, and photography How are they put together?
Media – drawing, painting, printmaking, &photography
Composition – elements & principles Profile: Pablo Picasso
Other factors – perspective, chiaroscuro, & content
Painting and Human Reality: Géricault's Raft of the “Medusa”
Pablo Picasso “Old Guitarist” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLi9QKaPU4 Part 1 of 9
Pablo Picasso “Guernica”http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/guernica.html
Theodore Géricault “Raft of Medusa”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8KGft79MaU
Composition Elements Line – the basic
building block of a visual design A linear form in
which length dominates ever width
A color edge An implication of
continued direction
Picasso’s ‘Girl before a Mirror’
Composition Elements Cont…
Form – the shape of an object within a composition
The spaced described by the line
Composition Elements Cont…
Color – hue, value, & intensity Hue – denotes the
measurable wavelength of a specific color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet)
Value – key, relationship of blacks to whites to grays
Intensity – chroma or saturation, degree of purity of a hue
Composition Elements Cont…
Mass – the physical volume and density of an object
the use of light and shade, texture, and perspective
Texture – roughness or smoothness (impasto, applied with a palette knife)
Giovanni Vanni’s “Holy Family with St. John”
Composition Elements Cont…
Principles Repetition – rhythm,
harmony, & variation Balance – equilibrium
in a work (symmetrical, formal & asymmetrical, informal)
Unity – means by which it achieves unity
Focal area – the focal point
Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper
Composition Elements Cont… Perspective –
indicates spatial relationships
Chiaroscuro – light & shade, gives the picture its character
Content – ranging from naturalism to stylization
How Do They Simulate the Senses?
Contrasts A personal Journey: Picasso, Guernica
Dynamics Trompe L’oeil (tromp-LUH-yuh) Juxtaposition Focus Objectivity
Important Terms: QUICK REVIEW
Intaglio Lithography Composition Line Form Hue
Value Intensity Variation Symmetry Perspective Chiaroscuro
Intaglio (in-TAL-ee-oh) The printmaking
process in which ink is transferred from the grooves of a metal plate to paper by extreme pressure
Lithography A printmaking
technique, based on the principle that oil and water do not mix, in which ink is applied to a piece of paper from a specially prepared stone.
Composition The arrangement
of line, form, mass, color, and so forth in a work of art.
Line The basic building
block of visual design: for example, a thin mark, a color edge, or implied.
Form The shape of an
object within a composition.
Hue The spectrum
notation of color.
Value The relationships of lights to
darks in a visual composition.
Intensity The degree of
purity of a color.
Variation The relationship
of repeated items in a composition to each other.
Symmetry The balancing of
like forms and colors on opposite sides of the vertical axis of a composition.
Perspective The creation of
the illusion of distance in a picture through the use of line, atmosphere, and so on.
Chiaroscuro Light and shade;
the balance of light and shade across the whole picture.