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Anything can be art. (Context matters!)

Successful artist come from a variety of backgrounds

• There are infinite shades of gray
• Context always matters!
• Chiaroscuro - technique that creates the illusion of volume(dimension) through strong value contrasts

Beauty is culture specific

• Hue - another word for color
• Warm - most reds, oranges, and yellows
• Cool - most greens, blues, and purples
• Tint - "color" plus white
• Shade - "color" plus black
• Saturation - how pure "color" is

The viewer has to bring something to the table for "art" to happen at all

• Actual texture - what's really there
• Visual texture - what appears to be there
• Impasto - heavily textured paint, a thick build up on a painting's surface
• Trompe l'oeil - "trick the eye," to simulate textures very accurately

Most art is concerned with both material and concept

Always a consideration for sculpture, often a consideration for two-dimensional work as well

The wheel was used create clay pottery by using the thowing technique

• Overlapping
• Relative Size - the size of an object in relation to surrounding ones
• Linear Perspective - a system of organizing space in 2D media in which lines that are in reality parallel and horizontal are represented as converging diagonals; objects/space between lines get smaller
• Atmosperic Perspective - aerial; use of texture gradient(closer objects are more detailed) and brightness gradient(lesser intensity of distant objects)

The glaze was used to seal the clay

The glaze is created through wood firing.

Anagamas (japanese style firning kilm or groundhog kiln used for wood firing) that are made into the earth were used to dry and seal the clay pottery.

The wood used to feed the fire undergound turns into ash and attatches to the pottery while trying to escape to form a seal.

The process last as long as three days.

Molten sand or silica, mixed with earth minerals

• Actual time and motion - seen in film and video work, also in kinetic sculture
• Motion(change) - helps us see time
• Photography influenced the way painters imaged motion
• We become aware of our own motion (and therefore time) when we interact with artwork

Glassblowing is a technique created by the Romans to form different shapes, sizes, colors, and functions with glass.

A blowpipe is used with molten glass to give shape and the process is rapid.

Dale Chihuly is famous for his artworks in glassblowing.

Dale Chihuly

• The light our eyes can see
• The rainbow

Hammering on thin sheets of metal or casting sculptures of metal in gold or bronze

• Light
• Starts with black and ends in white
• Blending elements together to get a white light
• Computer screen uses this

• It is a ceramic Tarakata Pot.
• It is made from fine red clay and designed from black paint. It's hand
• made and whell thrown. Greeks only had one shot to get desired design
• when painting it.

• Mixing colors of paint to get a darker color by subtracting light
• Examples: PRINTING(CMYK) and PAINT
• Starts with white and ends in black

Scultures of wood can be turned on lathe and also can be carved/constructed.

• Lines
• Shape, Volumn, and Mass
• Light and Value
• Color
• Texture
• SpaceTime and Motion

A visual representation of colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship

The outline of something's form

• Colors at their basic essence; those colors that cannot be created by mixing others
• Red, Blue, and Yellow

A three dimensional shape

Colors that are acheived by a mixture of two primaries

The three dimensional space enclosed within or occupied by an object

Colors achieved by a mixture of primary and secondary hues

The amount of matter an object contains

Colors located opposite of each on the color wheel, adds a lot of intensity to one another, a lot of energy

• Geometric - refular, precise, rectilinear, curilinear, crisp, hard-edged

Organic - natural, irregular, curvilinear, biomorphic, fractal

Amorphous - lacking any clear shape, form, or structure

Positive space is occupied by things

Negative space is what's around the things

Negative space is often as important to a composition as the positive space

Colors that are close together on a color wheel

A process of organizing element of design in order to get a desired effect

Balance - Ancient Greek ideal, has formal(mirror images, very stable, static symmetry around a central point) and informal(feels balanced, movement) symmetry

Proportion - Relative Size, one object compared to another, a ratio of 1.7 closer to nature, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Golden Mean - magic number of average, Canons of Proportions

Emphasis and Focal Point - The attention getter, usual visual elements for manipulation; size, color, and placement

Rhythm - Repetition

Unity with Variety - Unity is oneness or wholeness, too much unity = boring, too much variety = jumbled mess, just right = interesting and understandable

+1 Economy - teachers personal favorite, there is no definitive list of design principles