Art History

• Art History is a thread that ties together time, multiple disciplines, and people from around the globe. Understanding Art connects us to one another, different cultures, stories, experiences, and times
• Abstract Art: Extracts the essence from an object or idea

  
• Non-representational Art: Art that does not depict a real object or person.
• Representational Art: Art that depicts real life objects and scenes.
• Actual Line: What is actual means.

  Implied Line: Like a dotted line but like it say implied within a artwork

  
• Shape: The form of a graphic element, such as a letter, symbol, or image.
• Geometric Shape:Geometric shapes are precise and regular, like squares, rectangles, and triangles

  
• Biomorphic shape: often rounded and irregular

  
• Open Shape: A shape that is open on one side

  
• Mass: The quantity of matter and occupies space.
• Complementary colors: colors that are across each other on the color wheel.
• Monochromatic Color Scheme: A color scheme that uses only one color mixed with white or black.
• Analogous Color Scheme: Colors on the wheel that are next to each other
• Actual Texture: The physical texture of a material, such as the roughness of sandpaper.
• Implied Texture: The brushstrokes in a painting make it look like you can actually touch it
• Implied Depth: Creating space through the placement of shapes
• 1 and 2 point Liner perspective: Space through line
• Atmospheric Perspective: Space through changes in color and visual texture.
• Chiaroscuro: The use of light and dark to create a dramatic effect.
• Time and motion in art often work together
• Elements of design are used to create the Principles of Design
• Unity and Variety: The unity of the whole is achieved through the variety of the parts.
• Balance: How the elements of art (line, shape ,color, value, space, form, texture) relate to each other within the composition in terms of their visual weight.
• bilateral symmetry: the body is symmetrical on both sides of the midline
• Radial Symmetry: Symmetry but in a circular composition
• Asymmetrical: Both halves of the work are different, yet they create balance
• Subordination: Heroic or villain within a art piece
• Contrast: Putting something light/dark against a dark/light background.
• Proportion: The size relationship between objects in an artwork.
• Rhythm: Repetition of shapes, lines, colors, etc., that creates movement and flow in a composition.
• Convergence: Elements within an artwork that points to the central figure
• Separation/Isolation: Things in a artwork being away from objects or subjects
• Directional forces: Paths created or implied within an artwork that lead the eye through the composition.
• Scale: Relationship between the size of one whole object to the size of another whole object
• Proportion: Relationship of size between various components within one whole object
• Formal Analysis: An exploration of visual character that artists bring to their works through the expressive use of elements such as line, form, color, and light, through its over all structure or composition
• Medium: The material from which a work of art is made
• Style: A particular manner, form or character of representation, construction, or expression that is typical of an individual artist or of a certain place or period.
• Composition: The overall arrangement, organization, designer, structure of a work of art
• Content: A work of art is usually discussed in terms of its subject matter, form and content. Content refers to the intellectual, psychological, spiritual, narrative or aesthetic of the work.