art test.txt

How does art affect us?

a group active in the invention & application of new techniques-being innovative:

the spirit of times or spirit of age;

movement in late 19th century Europen; concerned w/ communication of inner emotional states through form & colors that may not copy nature directly:

movement in literature & visual arts that started in mid 20s & remained strong until mid 40's; based upon revealing the unconcious mind in dream images:

early 20th century movement which perspective w/a single viewpoint was abandoned & use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes & later collage:

are form where the originating idea & process which its presented take precedence over a tangible product:

art of beautiful writing; broadly, a flowing use of line often varying from thick to thin:

broad term that describes emotional art, most often boldly executed & making free use of distortion & symbolic or invented color:

17th century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light & shade, turbulent composition & pronounced emotional expression:

art that's based on natural appearances but departs significantly from them; forms are modified or changed to varying degrees in order to emphasize certain qualities:

french for fool the eye; 2 dimensional representation that's so naturalistic it looks actual or real (3 dimensional):

inpentrable by light; not transparent or translucent:

w/o symmetry:

the desirable middle between 2 extremes; the happy medium:

the visual expression of an idea or experience, formed w/skill, through the use of a medium:

purposes & functions of art:

century of Rembrandt's self portrait:

artists that produce art for social causes:

lift us above the stream of life:

imagination is more important than knowledge:

people with little or no formal art education who make art are described as:

outsider artist:

art by outsider artists is personal expression created apart from any conventional practice or style:

the expression or application of creative skill & imagination, especially through a visual medium such as painting or sculpture:

circles, triangles, squares - tend to be precise & regular:

irregular, often curving or rounded, and seem relaxed & more informal:

dominant shapes:

background areas:

Sky and Water, 1938 (fish & birds):

the indefinable, general receptacle of all things, seemingly empty spaces around us:

non-spatial continuum, the fourth dimension, in which events occur in succession:

shading from light to dark to create the illusion of roundness:

primary colors:

secondary colors:

color schemes are based on variation in the value & intensity of a single hue:

color schemes are based on colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel:

depicts the appearance of things; objects we recognize from the everyday world:

means to extract the essence of an object or idea; to take from:

presents visual forms w/no specific references to anything outside themselves:

symbolic meaning of signs, subjects & images:

near or exact matching of left & right sides of a 3 dimensional form or 2 dimensional composition:

left and right sides aren't the same:

layout of a painting:

3 ingredients of painting:

year 1st photograph was taken:

significance of Le Boulevard du Temple 1839:

photography & social change:

proved that all 4 hooves left the ground; cinematography was born:

an identifying mark or trademark based on letterforms combined with pictorial elements:

a variety of media in a single work; may be 2 , 3 dimensional or mixture of the 2:

storytelling; reason for quilt-making:

purpose; reason for quilt-making:

painter, quilter, children's book author - taken the reality of racial discrimination & made from it uplifting stories about finding sustenance & overcoming adversity:

creates furniture & architecture with curves:

Fallingwater, 1936; most influential 20th century American architect:

considered bad; artist lacks skill in many areas such as shading, anatomy, composistion & brushwork:

painted by well-trained artist; shows great assuredness in use of paint, light; considered a classic:

Info on Van Gogh:

Info on Picasso: