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Exam 2
Kathy Quick URI
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
11/03/2014

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Contour
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used for creating form, it outlines the edges of shape
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Foreshortening
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artist depth description by diagnosis
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Shape
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2 Dimensional
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Mass
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3 Dimensional
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Diagnosis
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movement
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Implied Lines
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not straightened or well defined lines
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Cross-Hatching
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dark shading
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Chirascura
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emerging from the darkness
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Modeling
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beginning of taking up space

- spacial depth

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Atmospheric Perspective
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ability of artist to show 3D shape on 2D surface through color
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Engraving
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metal plate and dig into it, and ink halls into lines
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Etching
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coated with acid resin to easily engrave
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Shading
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deals with gradation from light to dark
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Design
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the way the visual elements of art are arranged in a work of art
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Dynamic Equilibrium
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purity of form, line and color reflecting
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Optical Mixing
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tendency for the eye to blend colors placed next to each other
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After Image
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when you state at a color and then look at plain white, the first color's complimentary colors are shown
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Broken Color
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used by Van Gogh, broken brush strokes
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Scale
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size of one object relative to another
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Linear
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uses line
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Orthogonals
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coverage on one point
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Isometric Perspective
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a system using diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth
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Color Wheel
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a circle in which the primary, secondary, and intermediate hues (colors) are arranged in orderly intervals.
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Picture Plane
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the surface of a painting or drawing
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Hue
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a particular shade of a given color
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Asymmetrical Balance
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a balance achieved through the use of unequal parts or elements.
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Rembrent

- Modeling, showing volume or mass

- Crosshatching, showing dark shading

- Highlight and shading

- 3 Dimensional

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[image]
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- Showing contouring
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[image]
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- Leonardo Da Vinci

- Shading deals with a gradation from light 

- Emerging from the darkness

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[image]
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Seurat, Study for Le Cahet, c 1889

- Used pointilism

- Dots and diagnoals 

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[image]
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- Disney Studio, film Cinderella 1950

- Lines used to create emotion

-Happier lines are pointed upwards

- Sad lines are pointed downwards

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[image]
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- Leonardo Da Vinci, Last Supper 1495-98

-One point perspective

-Parallel lines (orthogonals)

-Jesus' head is the vanishing pt.

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[image]
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[image]
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-Qu Ding, Summer Mountains, 11th Century
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[image]
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[image]
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Egyptian Book of the Dead, c 1280 BC

- Guide book after death

-Birds eye view

-Disjointed

-Combining two vantage points

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[image]
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Duchomp, Time
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[image]
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[image]
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[image]
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[image]
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Picasso, "Blind Man's Meal" 1903

-Monocromatic

-Reflecting "blue period" of his life 

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[image]
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Matisse, "Roofs of Callioure" 1905

-Warm colors

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[image]
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Light Spectrum, Sir Isaac Newton
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[image]
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Van Gogh, Starry Night 1889

-Broken color

"I use color abitrarily to express myself forcebly"

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[image]
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Mary Evans, "Baltimore Album Quilt" c 1850

- Unity and Variation

- Floral Arrangements

- Circles and squares

Theme of Patriotism 

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[image]
Definition

Unity and Variation

Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold 1928

-Repetition 

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[image]
Definition

Focus, Emphasis and Subordination

-Callis, Parrot and Sail Boat 1980

-Color placement and scale direction

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[image]
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[image]
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Balance

-Leonardo Da Vinci, The Vitruvian Man c 1485

Symmetry: distribution of equivalence along a dividing axis

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[image]
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Balance

Picasso, Acrobat 1936 

Asymmetrical balance: when non equivelant forms balance each other

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[image]
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Rhythm and Pattern

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Gained the Momentum 1941

 

Lawrence, The Death Rate was Very High

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[image]
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Rhythm and Pattern

Mondrian, Victory Boogie Woogie 1944

-Diamond

-Grid Pattern

-Movement of a city

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[image]
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Munch, "The Scream" 1893

Simultaneous contrast: when complementary colors are juxtaposed, we see them more intense

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[image]
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Pantheon, Rome 118-126

-Temple

-Circles and rectangles are repeated

-Dome: symbolizes heaven

-Cofers: rectangular niches 

*visually lighten massive dome

*physically lighten the dome

*marble floors, repeated shapes

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[image]
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School of Athens, Raphael 1509-1511

-Celebrating philosophers

*law

*poetry

*theology

*philosophy

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[image]
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Van Gogh, Night Cafe 1888 oil

-Intense lighting 

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