ART 1010: Midterm

Postive & Negative

Flat, and can only be veiwed from one side.
*Creates illunison of depth.*

Contains objects that can be veiwed from all sides; objects that have height, width, & depth.
*Aslo called mass*

Shortest distance between two points. 

Examples:  A.Straight               A. Vertical
                 B.Curved                B.Horizontal
                 C.Angular               C. Diagonal

Created by lines; lines divide space.
*Ususally described to define 2-dimensional*

Formed by straight lines or curved ones that progess evenly. 

Formed by unevne curves

Example: Treetops

Dramatic contrast between light & dark; makes figures & forms come dramactically alive. 

Actual & Implied
Tacticle

Hues
Tints
Shades

Source for all other colors.
Red
Yellow
Blue

When two primaries are mixed.
Orange
Green
Purple

Directly across from each other on the color wheel.
Red & Green
Yellow & Purple
Orange & Blue
*Emphasize each other, making them POP!*

Family of colors based on 
Yellow
Orange 
Red

Based on 
Blue
Purple
Green

Natural human desire

General equivalance of shape & position on opposite sides of a central ais; if folded in half, the forms would match. 

Dependent on an intuitive balancing of visual weights.

Most common instrument for drawing.
AKA: Lead/pencil

Drawings with pure, presise lines made by a thin metal wire in a holder. 

Making lines & tones that are easily wiped away.
*When wood is heated until only carbon remains*

Another drawing material that is soft & requires fixative to be permanently bonded to paper.
*Made from minerals & clay*

Fabricated chalks are a combination of loose, dry pigments & substance that holds the pigment together. 

Provide artist with an extensive menu of colors, but do not require fixative.
*Waxy or oily binder*

Nibs with different points & angles are insersted into a holder, depending on the kind of line wanted. 

Pointed  ______ can produce a delicate, fine line or a wide, dramatic stroke quickly & elegantly. 

Diluted ink applied wiht a brush to add tonal values to a drawing.

A glue-like substance that holds pigment together.

A wax coating that resists acid; used in etching.

A painting medium in whihc pigments are mixed with egg yolks

Painting technique in use since ancient times.  Pigments & water is brushed directly into fresh, wet plaster.  As plaster dries the pigment is bound into it & litteraly becomes part of the wall itself. 

A water soluble paint that dries quilkly & can be applied to most surfaces. 

Transparent paint that is a quick-drying combination of pigment & gum arabic. 

Combination of ground pigment & oil. 

A form of architectural construction in which post or columns support horizontal lines. 

A semicircular construction that both supports the weigh of a buidling & provides an opening. 
*Usually stone*

A round vault forming the roof of a building or structure; typically with a circular base. 

A round building or room; esp. with a dome. 

Ornamental workin a vaulted roof or ceiling. 

A projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall. 

A long projecting beam or girger fixed at only one end. 

Of, relating to, or functioning as a skeleton. 

The matter from which a thing is or can be made. 

Unknown god

The practice of Forming ideas, esp. unrealistically. 

A style & theory of representation based on the accurate description of detail. 

The Vitruvian Man is world - reowened drawing.

A 19th-Century movement that rejected the idealized historical & mythological subjects of academic Neoclassicism. 

The front of a building that looks onto a street or open space. 

The central part of a church building. 

Either of the two parts fomring the arms of the cross shape
*In a cross shaped church*

A passage between rows of seats in a building such as a church, theatre, airplance, ect. 

Upper part of the nave, choir, & transepts of a large church. 

Large semicircle or polygonal recess in a church. 

A vault forming a half cylinder. 

Produced by the intersection at right. 

Buttress slanting form seperate pier, trypically fomring an arch. 

A curved triangle of vaulting formed by the intersection of a dome with supporting arches. 

Neoclassicism is th ename given to quiet distinct movements in the decorative & visual arts. 

A renaissance culture movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism & revived interest in ancient Greek & Rome thought. 

Make unrecongizable by altering its apperance, sound, taste, or smell. 

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. 

The 16th-Century movement for the reform of absuses in the Roman Cathloic Church. 

A category of artistic composition.