Chapter 2

• Artist


  Person who makes tangible and intangible products as an expression of creativity and imagination
• Artisan


  Person who produces crafts, which, though may be acquired only for decoration, are wholly designed to be practical or of use to the buyer
• Artistic Process


  1. Pre-production: Planning, Focus of artist, Questions asked, Decides on medium and materials

  2. Production: Actual creation of art piece

  3. Post-production: Adding finishing touches
• Medium of Art


  Materials used by an artist
• Types of Art Medium


  • Visual Arts: Two-Dimensional, Three-Dimensional
  • Auditory Arts
  • Combined Arts
• Line


  • Static, Dynamic
• Shape


  Two-dimensional area that is defined in some way, perhaps with an outline or solid area of color
• Form


  Objects that have three dimensions: length, width, and depth
• Space


  Area in, around, and between components of design. Negative space is as important as other elements.
• Texture


  Surface quality of the material as perceived by the sense
• Categories of Color


  • Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, Tertiary Colors
• Principles of Artistic Composition


  • Balance, Emphasis, Gradation, Harmony, Rhythm and Movement, Proportion, Variety, Unity
• Realism


  Portray subject as it is
• Abstractionism


  Move away or separate from objective reality, showing the artist's feelings or ideas about the subject
• Types of Abstractionism


  • Distortion, Elongation, Mangling, Cubism
• Symbolism


  Features subjects representing an idea or concept expressed through the various elements in the piece
• Fauvism


  Art movement in the 1900s where artists tried to paint pictures of comfort, joy, and pleasure
• Dadaism


  Protest movement in 1916 that rejected logic, reason, and aesthetics of capitalist societies
• Futurism


  Originated in Italy in the early 20th century, emphasizing speed, technology, youth, violence, and industrial objects
• Surrealism

  Founded in Paris in 1924, known for visual artworks expressing the imaginings of the unconscious mind
• Artist


  artiste in French
• Artist


  producers of arts
• Artisan


  artisan in French; artigiano in Italian
• Artisan


  designers of crafts
• The Artistic Process


  Pre-production, Production, Post-production
• Pre-production


  planning
• Production


  actual creation of art piece
• Post-production


  Adding of finishing touches to the artwork
• Medium of artVisual Arts
• Medium of art


  Visual arts, Auditory arts, Combined arts
• Static


  when a line behaves in usually vertical or horizontal line
• Dynamic


  when a line behaves in curving, slanted, zig-zag, contorted, or meandering directions
• Negative space


  area within a design that is a void of materials, it is as important as the other elements of the design
• Primary colors


  blue, yellow, red
• Secondary colors


  combination of primary colors: green, orange, violet
• Tertiary colors


  multiple combinations of either primary-secondary colors or secondary-secondary colors
• le Fauves


  a French word for ‘the wild beasts’
• Cubism


  takes the abstract form through the use of a cone, cylinder, or sphere at the expense of other pictorial elements
• Mangling


  not a common way of presenting abstract subjects; subjects are cut and hacked by repeated blows
• Elongation


  character is elongated or extended