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Vertigo by Mel Bocher

• Regular line drawn with the aid of a ruler speaks language of mechanical planning
• Contradicts use of regular line to illustrate control
• Repetitious diagonal movement and hectic crossing and overlapping of lines impart sense of disarray

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Automatic Drawing by Andre Masson

Lines to Express Freedom and Passion

• Irregularity reflects wildness of nature, chaos, and accident
• Used to reflect drawing and thinking process. Masson wanted to create imgs to express subconcious
• Look spontaneous and free. Suppressing concious control to access subsconcious sources of creativity and truth.

Aesthetics

Avant-Garde

• new and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people introducing them.

Classical vs. classical

• Capital C refers to ar made in Greece 400 BCE. 
• Also can refer to art drawing inspiration from ancient Greece/Rome.
• Also can mean orderly, balanced art clear in meaning.

Formal Elements of Art

• Aspects of art that are the basis of how compositions are arranged
• Includes: line, shape, form, color, texture, value, space

Visual Form

• Way that it's arranged for the ideas to communicate an idea

Composition

• The overall design or organization of a work

Fine Art

• Western category of refined objects. Thought to be made by the "best." 
• Tends to require special abilities of the audience. 
• Tends to be things collected and exhibited.

Popular Culture

• More accessible group. Inexpensivem entertaining, commericially produced.
• Contemporary artists tend to break moulds b/t fine art and pop.

Craft

• Work created through certain materials w/ certain approach suggesting that these works are more objects than appearance.
• Have utilitarian purpose.

Expressionism

• Artistic style at its height in the 1920s EU, aiming to portray the world in terms of vivid extremes of personal experience and feeling.

Elements and Principles of Art

• Elements of art are the basic vocab.
• Principles are grammar of art.