Visual Arts

• Anamorphosis is the technique that distorts an image so that it appears normal when viewed from a specific angle.
• A sense of reality was one of the hallmarks of European portraiture during the Renaissance period.
• Abstraction is the style of portraiture that does not attempt to depict the subject realistically, instead, it uses shapes, colours, and textures to create an abstract representation of the subject.
• Beauty or demeanour was an aspect of the sitter that was emphasized during the Renaissance period.
• Cubist is the period during which Picasso attempted to represent the sitter from multiple angles at once.
• Distortion is the technique that Pablo Picasso used to capture the sitter's emotions, thoughts, and experiences.
• Expressionism is the style of portraiture that uses exaggerated features and colours to express the subject's emotions.
• Frida Kahlo's artworks depict her physical and emotional pain.
• Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who painted the Mona Lisa artwork.
• Life experience is a common theme in Frida Kahlo’s paintings.
• On the outside of the cartonnage coffin, Egyptian mummy portraits were placed.
• Optical illusions are a common feature in the works of Dutch artist, M.C Escher.
• Portrait is a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person, typically meant to capture the person's likeness, but can also express the artist's interpretation of the person's personality or mood.
• Portraiture is the art of painting people.
• Practised painting people is a common reason why Vincent van Gogh produced self-portraits.
• Race and skin colour are ideas that Brazilian photographer, Angélica Dass challenges in her contemporary portraits.
• Realism is a style of portraiture that strives to depict the subject in a realistic way.
• Self-portrait is a portrait of the artist by the artist.
• Sfumato is the technique that creates a hazy effect.
• The human figure is Pablo Picasso’s prime subject in his paintings.
• Themes in contemporary portraiture artworks include Identity, Society, The human condition and the medium itself.
• Tombs are where portraits placed in Ancient Egypt were placed.
• Unemotional & serious is how Vincent van Gogh often presented himself in his self-portraits.
• Colour  An element of art made up of three properties: hue/colour, value, and intensity.

   Types of colour:

   Primary

   Secondary

   Tertiary

   Intermediate

   Hue: name of colour

   Value: hue’s lightness and darkness (a colour’s value

  changes when white or black is added)

   Intensity: quality of brightness and purity

   high intensity = colour is strong and bright

   low intensity = colour is faint and dull