Art Appreciation

Physical appearance, the composition/design, materials, and the size of the artwork.

Artwork that imitates visual reality an illusion of reality.

Artwork that has heightened emotions, colors are boldly contrasting and spontaneous.

Artwork that has a dream-like quality, that defies logic, and has juxtaposition, contradictions of expectations about reality – or what we think is reality.

Artwork in which one can see an image and be able to recognize it for what it is, but the image is distorted in a certain way (cubism).

A moving point, having length and no width; actual ____ physically exist and can be broad, thin, straight, jagged, etc.

______ that do not physically exist and are suggested by the artwork (dotted, broken, pointing action).

• Horizontal: implies activity
• Vertical: potential for action
• Diagonal: suggest movement (think: falling tree).
• Curving: suggest flowing movement

______ expresses a range of emotions, such as fragility, roughness, anger, whimsy, vigor, etc.

The lightness or darkness of a surface – to create 3 dimensions.

In Italian it means “light-dark,” an image that creates the illusion of 3D space by depicting light and shadow.

The saturation of a color.

The mixture of a primary color with a neighboring complimentary color to make a hybrid, or a 3rd level color.

Red, orange, yellow. These ____ are perceived as moving forward in an image.

Blue, green, and violet. These ______ are perceived as receding in the image.

The artist is attempting to create the illusion of _____ in the painting. To create a sensual quality using the paint and to capture the ______ and create a sensation that we think we can touch it and feel like you could feel it.

Also known as aerial _____, the artist is playing with the clarity or sense of focus, as well as detail, contrast in value.

Corresponding to the viewer's eye, depending where the _____ is will give a sense of perspective.

The arrangement of formal elements in a work of art. Principles are: balance, rhythm, proportion, scale, emphasis, and unity & variety.

The sense of equillibrium between two sides of an image.

____ creates balance in an image and depends on the relationships between the elements of composition/design.

The repetition of elements separated by intervals to suggest movement.

An artistic convention that uses greater size to show importance.

Creating one or more focal points in an image.