Lesson 4: Integrative art

• Visual arts is an expression of artistic ideas through images, structures, and tactile work
• Examples of visual arts include painting, sculpture, and architecture
• Some visual artworks are integrated, combining several mediums to create a new and unique artwork
• Literary arts is an expression of ideas through writing
• Types of literary artworks include poetry, prose, and drama
• Poetry is characterized by imaginative and figurative language
• Prose is written in complete and grammatical narratives and includes short stories and novels
• Drama is written to be performed and not just read, usually referred to as plays
• Performing arts is an expression of artistic ideas through written lyrics, text, dramatization, and multimedia production
• Performing arts combine different art forms such as literary art for material and visual arts for stage design
• Space in visual arts can be positive or negative space
• In visual arts, a line is a series of points with characteristics of form and direction
• Different types of lines convey different meanings, such as horizontal lines suggesting calmness and vertical lines suggesting loftiness
• Shapes are two-dimensional figures with height and width
• Geometric shapes are enclosed figures like triangles and squares
• Organic shapes are free-flowing shapes found in nature, like the shape of a leaf
• Abstract shapes lack definition and symmetry
• Forms are three-dimensional shapes with added volume
• Colors in visual arts convey different meanings and can be associated with lightness or darkness, coolness or warmth
• Value in visual arts pertains to the lightness or darkness of a color
• Texture in visual arts is the tactile or illusory surface of the piece
• Principles of design organize elements to create compelling artworks
• Scale and proportion refer to the relative size of parts of a whole in an artwork
• Harmony in art refers to the unity of the artwork's parts
• Movement is a fundamental principle in dance and theater, incorporating the passage of time in visual arts
• Variety adds diversity to an artwork to make it more interesting
• Rhythm is the repetition of elements to create a pattern in visual arts
• Balance refers to the even distribution of elements in an artwork
• There are two types of balance in visual arts: informal (asymmetrical) and formal (symmetrical)
• Emphasis gives greater impact to a certain element, while subordination refers to elements that supplement the emphasized element
• poem for occasion

  ode
• poem for the dead


  elegy
• speech for the dead

  eulogy
• 14 lines with iambic pentameter

  sonnet
• what does iamb mean?

  1 unstressed and 1 stressed
• 5 tercets and 1 quatrain

  villanelle
• What does tercet mean?

  3-line stanza
• What does quatrain mean?

  4-line stanza
• 5-7-5 syllable poem


  haiku
• actual size of an element or an object

  scale