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Art ATAR Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Composition | The arrangement of elements and principles within an artwork |
| Contempoary | Artworks made in the last couple decades |
| Post-Modern | The artistic movement that questioned modernist narratives, values, and hierarchies 60s/70s Critiqued previously held values about high culture and progress Blurs high and low art Individualism More ironic, humorous, and skeptical approach |
| Realistic | Accurate depiction of subjects Reality 19th century Naturalistic style Mimic Photographs |
| Abstract | Does not aim for realism Expression Early 20th century focus on shapes, colour and form |
| Figurative | Art that is deprived from real objects Subject matter is recognisable |
| Some good ideas | Sparse composition Limited colour palette Effective or uneffective artwork Communicate strong ideas on Reminiscent of psychedelic Pop Art surreal quality appropriately chosen make reference to Modernism |
| Spacial use of depth | a reduction in the scale of (x) towards the background atmospheric perspective- the (x) becoming less detailed towards the background overlapping of the (x) the contrast in value to depict shadows along (x) |
| Page looks more planned and organised with | limit colors and patterns |
| Creation of space, within a 2D artwork | Overlapping The size of objects becoming smaller towards the background Atmospheric Perspective |
| Atmospheric Perspective involves | a de-saturation of colour towards the background of an artwork. |
| How can a medium be used | Using broken brushstrokes With blended, smooth brushstrokes With additive and subtractive techniques |
| Realism (1) | Conviction that everyday life and the modern world were suitable subjects for art How life was structured socially, economically, politically, and culturally in the mid-19th century The good and ugly |
| Realism Figures | Gustave Courbet - insisted on the physical reality of the objects he observed - even if that reality was plain and blemished, The Desperate Man, A Burial at Ornans Édouard Manet - driven to scandalize the French Salon public |
| Impressionism (1) | Used looser brushwork and lighter colors Concentrated on the world as they saw it, which was imperfect in a myriad of ways. Mid-19th-century renovation of Paris |
| Impressionism figures | Claude Monet - Boulevard des Capucines, Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, Impression, Sunrise |
| Post Impressionism | Concentrated on the subjective vision of the artist Window into the artist's mind and soul Early 1880s |
| Post Impressionism figures | Paul Cézanne - Vincent Van Gogh - |
| Expressionism | Art that come forth from within the artist, rather than from a depiction of the external visual world standard for assessing the quality of a work of art Swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes 1905-33 |
| Expressionism figures | Edvard Munch - The Scream - intense colors, semi-abstraction, and mysterious, often open-ended themes to function as symbols of universal significance |
| Fauvism | Colour not just descriptive, representational purpose -> allowing it to exist on the canvas as an independent element. Colour could project a mood and establish a structure within the work of art without having to be true to the natural world. 1899-08 |
| Fauvism figures | Henri Matisse - Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Line |
| Cubism | Explored open form, piercing figures and objects by letting the space flow through them, blending background into foreground, and showing objects from various angles 1907-22 |
| Cubism figures | Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
| Pop Art | Creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, blurs the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. Everything is inter-connected |
| Pop Art Artists | Roy Lichtenstein - Drowning Girl Andy Warhol - Campbell's Soup I |
| Dada | where the focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art. |
| Dada Artists | |
| Is this artwork a | Still Life Portrait Landscape Scene from everyday life Inspired by photography |
| Renaissance | Celebrated humanism, innovation and revival of classical knowledge Oil paintings |
| Chiaroscuro | extreme low key and high-contrast lighting |
| Linear perspective | create the illusion of depth and space using relative size and position of objects. |
| Sfumato | a painting technique that blends the edges of colors to create a soft and atmospheric effect. |
| Renaissance Figures | Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa Michelangelo - Creation of Adam |
| Baroque | Grandeur, Drama, Emotion Dynamic composition Elaborate ornamentation Light/Shadow Religious, Intense action, Threatical |
| Baroque Figures | Caravaggio - The Calling of Saint Matthew Artemesia Gentileschi - Judith Slaying Holofernes |
| Rococo | Against Baroque Grandeur Elegance, frivolity, exuberanc Pastel, ornate designs, playful themes Pleasures of the aristocratic life |
| Neoclassism | Against excesses of Rococo Art and ideals of Ancient Greece and Rome Simplicity, Rationalism, Symmetry Heroic subjects |
| Romantism | Against rationalism of englightenment Emotion, imagination, sublime Intense feelings, awe-inspiring sights Individual expression, spirituality, unconcious mind |
| Realism | Against the idealism of Romantism Everyday lives of ordinary people (accurate( Social injustice, labour, poverty Harsh realities Dignity of common people Objective observation & Truthful representation |
| Impressionism | Against constraints of realism |
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