GRVA

• Reading is a complex cognitive process of discovering the meaning of symbols, involving decoding symbols to arrive at meaning and constructing meanings of words
• Reading comprehension skills include identifying simple facts, making judgments about content, and connecting text to other passages and situations
• Art is defined as the skillful application of knowledge, the expression of the beautiful, and a product of man’s expression, creativity, and imagination
• Visual art involves art forms primarily visual in nature such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video/film making, interior design, and architecture
• Visual art is a universal language used for communication and self-expression
• Visual art is a universal language used for communication, expression, and understanding, with an essential drive for creating and interpreting visual imagery
• Visual art makes a person and society happier, more creative, and less dogmatically rigid
• Artistic expression through visual art allows artists to express emotions or feelings regarding a particular subject, primarily as a way of self-expression without focusing on the audience's reaction
• Narrative function in visual art refers to using art to tell a story or relate the history of a people, including objects like quilts that convey stories
• Functional purpose in visual art refers to how art has both aesthetic and useful value, with architecture being a prominent example of incorporating functionality in designs
• Persuasive function in visual art deals with artworks meant to make an audience believe a message or convince them, such as advertising and media influencing consumer decisions
• Reading visual art involves understanding the subject, content, and form of an artwork, where the subject is the main focus or person depicted, content is the message conveyed, and form is the development and configuration of the artwork
• Types of subject in visual art include history, where the subject is drawn from historical events, honoring heroes or narrating historical triumphs and sufferings
• Representational art depicts objects recognizable from reality, while abstract art distorts reality, and non-representational art does not depict real objects
• "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence" by John Trumbull depicts the moment when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
• Artwork categories:

  • Mythology or Allegory: scenes from fiction showing gods, goddesses, and supernatural beings
  • Religion: scenes or persons from religious texts expressing a particular attitude to the relationship between man and God
  • Wildlife: animals and their habitat as primary subjects or for their symbolic importance
  • Portraiture: famous people, ordinary individuals, or artists themselves as subjects aiming to create a likeness representing aspects of the person’s personality
  • Genre or Everyday Life: scenes from everyday life, domestic and agricultural occupations
  • Still Life: inanimate objects arranged for maximum design or compositional effect
  • Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape: scenery in nature, urban areas, bodies of water
  • Dream and Fantasy: combination of real objects in whimsical and unrealistic backgrounds or vice versa
• Artistic Styles:

  • Naturalistic Style: uses recognizable images with a high level of accuracy in their depiction, like photorealism
  • Abstract Style: based on a recognizable object but manipulated by distortion, scale issues, or other artistic devices
• Different cultures develop traditional forms and styles of art within the context of their own culture, which may be complicated for other cultures to understand
• Cultural styles in art refer to distinctive characteristics in artworks throughout a particular society or culture, formed over hundreds or thousands of years to help define cultural identity
• Fine Arts category includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and new media in museum collections and commercial art galleries
• Drawing is the simplest and most efficient way to communicate visual ideas, using media like graphite, charcoal, crayon, pastel, ink, and erasers
• Painting is the application of pigments to a support surface to establish an image, design, or decoration, with mediums like encaustic, tempera, fresco, oil, acrylic, and watercolor paint
• Sculpture is any three-dimensional artistic rendition of a creator’s thoughts or emotions, executed through carving or molding in materials like clay, stone, ceramic, wood, or other modern materials
• Installation art utilizes multiple objects from various mediums, taking up entire spaces, and can address aesthetic and narrative ideas on a larger scale than traditional sculpture
• Popular Culture category includes products and images like posters, graffiti, advertising, popular music, television, digital imagery, magazines, books, movies, cars, and celebrity status
• Public murals and handbills add a street-level texture to urban environments, providing an aesthetic stamp on industrialized landscapes
• Signage uses signs and symbols to deliver messages for sales or advocacy reasons, with various forms like banners, billboards, and murals
• Media art includes digital art, multimedia art, web art, sound art, and video art, incorporating emerging technologies into artworks
• Craft is a category of art showing high skilled workmanship, often associated with utilitarian purposes and highly decorated
• Elements of Visual Art:

  • Medium: physical material where the artwork is created
  • Elements: building blocks of all arts, characteristics or qualities contained in the artwork
• Seven Elements of Visual Art:

  1. Line:

  • Simplest, most basic, and most universal way of creating visual arts
  • Mark or sign showing direction, orientation, or motion
  • Types of lines: straight (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) and curved (single, double, combination)
• Value:

  • Degree of lightness or darkness of a paint or graphic
  • Ranges from light to dark depending on the prevalence of white or black
  • Types of value: tint (mixing white with another color), shade (mixing black with another color)
• Color:

  • Phenomenon of light or visual perception that differentiates objects
  • Properties: Hue (name of a color), Harmony, Saturation
• Levels of Color:

  • Primary colors: red, yellow, blue
  • Secondary colors: orange, green, purple
  • Tertiary colors: result from mixing a primary color with a secondary color
• Harmony of Colors (Color Schemes):

  • Monochromatic colors: same hue but different value
  • Complementary colors: located directly opposite each other on the color wheel
  • Split complementary colors: variation of the complementary color scheme using two adjacent complementary colors
• Principles of Contrast in Color Harmony:

  • Triadic (Triad) color scheme: three colors equally spaced forming an equilateral triangle
  • Analogous colors: set of colors next to each other
• Analogous colors are a set of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, like yellow, orange-yellow, and orange

  
• Analogous colors are three colors equally spaced from one another on the color wheel, forming an equilateral triangle
• Warm colors are on the right side of the color wheel and tend to advance into the foreground, coming toward the viewer

  
• Saturation is the intensity of color in an image, which can be bright or pale, and determines how a hue will look in different lighting conditions