LESSON 1

• Art


  The expression of man's ideas, imagination, and emotions using his body
• Aristotle: 'Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.'
• Michelangelo: 'The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.'
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 'Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.'
• Paul Gauguin: 'Art is a mad search for individualism.'
• Bertolt Brecht: 'Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.'
• Characteristics of Art


  • Man-made
  • Unique
  • Aesthetics
• Painting


  A visual art form where artists use various techniques to apply paint onto surfaces to create images, scenes, or abstract compositions
• Sculpture


  Creating three-dimensional artworks by shaping or manipulating materials such as clay, stone, metal, wood, or plaster
• Architecture


  The art and science of designing and constructing buildings, structures, and spaces that serve functional, aesthetic, and cultural purposes
• Literature


  Written or spoken works that express ideas, emotions, experiences, and stories through language
• Music


  An auditory art form that involves organized sounds and rhythms produced by instruments, voices, or electronic means
• Space


  The distances or areas around, between, and within components of a piece
• Space


  • Positive space
  • Negative space
• Line


  Indicates direction, orientation, movement, and energy
• Line


  • Vertical
  • Horizontal
  • Jagged
  • Curved
• Shape


  An enclosed space, a bounded two-dimensional form that has both length and width
• Shape


  • Organic
  • Geometric
• Form


  Something that is three-dimensional and encloses volume, having length, width, and height
• Form


  • Geometric
  • Organic
• Color


  Produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye
• Texture


  The way a three-dimensional work actually feels when touched, or the visual "feel" of a two-dimensional piece
• Classification of Colors


  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Intermediate
• Hue


  The names we assign a color
• Saturation


  The vividness of color
• Value


  The lightness or darkness of the color
• Emphasis


  Developing points of interest to pull the viewer's eye to important parts of the body of the work
• Balance


  A sense of stability in the body of work, created by repeating same shapes and by creating a feeling of equal weight
• Harmony


  Achieved in a body of work by using similar elements throughout the work, giving an uncomplicated look
• Variety


  The differences in the work, achieved by using difference shapes, textures, colors and values
• Movement


  Adds excitement to your work by showing action and directing the viewer's eye throughout the picture plane
• Unity


  Seen in a painting or drawing when all the parts equal a whole