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ARS 100 Quiz 1
Chapters (1-4)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Art comes from the Latin word (----) which means (----) | ("Ars") (Skill) |
| The Greek word for art, (----), is the source for the English word (----) | ("tekne") (technique) |
| Art is an... [3 things] | Ability, Process, & Product |
| What does art do? (11 things) | Creates beauty enhances our environment reveals truth immortalizes Expresses religious beliefs Expresses fantasy stimulates intellect & fires the emotions creates order and harmony express chaos records & commemorates experience reflec |
| Andy Warhol (Artwork) | "Four Marilyn's" Picture is blotchy to symbolize her imperfections, symbolizes that she is a consumer product, immortalizes her after death |
| Jessie Oonark (Artwork) | "A Shaman's Helping Spirits" Symbolizes her Shaman religious beliefs, symbolizes the Shaman visiting the spirit world in a "trance" state |
| Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (Artwork) | "Eclipse" Creates chaos, expresses the chaos with random lines, shapes, and designs |
| Faith Ringgold (Artwork) | "Tar Beach" Commemorates her childhood experience, honors women's work with sewing and stitching, honors her African American story telling heritage |
| Quality of art is measured by... (4 things) | Technical skill & craftsmanship Originality & depth of idea Degree to which work satisfies its intention Level of aesthetic achievement |
| Some "truths" about art are... (2 things) | There is no agreed upon definition of art Art does not have to be beautiful |
| Basic components of art are... (4 things) | Subject Visual elements Medium (Specific materials & tools used) Form (The sum of everything) |
| Composition | Organization or arrangement of formal elements |
| Style | Particular combination of characteristics |
| Content | The sum of the subject matter (iconography), form, composition, style, materials & techniques used to make it) |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Line | defines a shape |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Light | Can reveal shape |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Shape | An area in a composition separated by boundaries |
| (Visual Elements of Art0 Value | The degree of lightness or darkness |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Color | Describes the world around us |
| The Canon of Proportion | The human body |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Texture | Refers to the visual or tactile surface characteristics |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Space | The area we exist within. 2D & 3D |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Time | Day or night, age or era |
| The Golden Mean | Ancient Greeks used The Golden Mean to create architecturally pleasing buildings. Still used to this day. Based on proportions. |
| (Visual Elements of Art) Motion | A sense of movement |
| Contour Line | the edge of a solid, something 3d in a picture |
| Actual Line | The path made by a moving point; a connected and continuous series of points. Contrast with implied line. |
| Implied Line | not actually present, but can be noticed |
| Psychological Line | “line” that is present when figure in a picture looks a certain direction. Observer wants to look in the same direction |
| Horizontal, Vertical, & Diagonal lines imply... | Horizontal lines suggest stability Vertical lines may suggest assertiveness Diagonal lines often imply movement and directionality |
| Jacob Lawrence (Artwork) | "Harriet Tubman Series No. 4" Image looks flat because of strong color contrast, shows slave children doing cartwheels |
| (Types of Shading) Stippling | (in drawing, painting, and engraving) Mark (a surface) with numerous small dots or specks: "the miniaturist's use of stippling". |
| (Types of Shading) Hatching | Hatching is a shading technique used in both drawing and painting, where tone is built up through a series of thin strokes or lines that are more or less parallel |
| (Types of Shading) Cross-Hatching | Crosshatching is an extension of hatching, which uses is the use of fine parallel lines drawn closely together, to create the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing |
| (Types of Shading) Contour Hatching | used shading like cross hatching to create curves and ellipse like shaping |
| (Types of Shapes) Geometric | regular shapes |
| (Types of Shapes) Organic | irregular shapes, soft, fluid |
| (Types of Shapes) Biomorphic | resemble shapes like organ shapes (internal organs Ex. heart) |
| Elizabeth Murray(Artwork) | "Tangled Fall" Includes biomorphic shapes (a human heart) |
| (Types of Shapes) Amorphous | has no clear defined shape or boundary |
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