![]() ![]() Shade: The dark values of a color (adding black). (The process is also called silk-screen or serigraphy.) Screen print: Printing technique that makes use of a squeegee to force ink directly onto a piece of paper or canvas through a stencil containing the image. Regular rhythm is achieved through repeating identical motifs using the same intervals of space between them. Random rhythm is a repetition in no apparent order with no regular spaces. Progressive rhythm is a visual rhythm that changes a motif each time it is repeated. Flowing rhythm is created by repetition of wavy lines. Alternating rhythm is when the visual rhythm set up by repeating motifs but changing position or content of motifs or spaces between them. Visual rhythm is perceived through the eyes, and is created by repeating positive spaces separated by negative spaces. Rhythm: Principal of design that repeats elements to create the illusion of movement. Proportion: Principle of design concerned with the size relationships of one part to the whole and one part to another. Pictorial space: The illusion of space, whether three- or two-dimensional, created by an artist on the two-dimensional surface of the canvas or paper. A pattern has no movement and may or may not have rhythm. Pattern: Two-dimensional decorative visual repetition. Units in a motif may or may not be an exact duplicate of the first unit. ![]() Medium: The specific material used by an artist, such as oil and brush also, the vehicle used, such as sculpture, painting or photography. Diagonal lines tend to create a feeling of dynamic movement. Vertical lines tend to create a feeling of stability. Horizontal lines tend to create a sense of calm in a picture. It can vary in width, direction, and length. Line: An identifiable path of a point moving in space. Hue: The name of a color – red blue, yellow, etc. Gouache resembles school tempera paint or poster paint. Gouache: Pigments ground in water and mixed with gum to form opaque watercolor. The formal elements of a work consist of the groupings and combinations of shapes. What stands out most in a work of art.Įmphasis: Principle of design concerned that stresses one element or area in a work of art to make it attract the viewer’s attention first.Įxaggeration: Increasing or enlarging an object or figure or one of its parts to communicate ideas and feelings.įederal Arts Project: Government program established during the Depression to create jobs for American artists.įocal point: The center of interest of an artwork the part you look at first.įorm: An artist uses form as a vehicle for rendering a particular type of subject matter. ![]() Sometimes called blind contour if the artists in not looking at their paper, only at their subject.Ĭontrast: Use of opposites near or beside one another (light and dark, rough and smooth).Ĭool colors: mostly green, blue, violet (purple).ĭominance: The difference in importance of one aspect in relation to all other aspects of design. Content refers to the intellectual, psychological, spiritual, narrative or aesthetic aspect of the work.Ĭontour drawing: An outline that shows only the edge and not the volume or mass of an object. Color has three properties: hue, value, and intensity.Ĭomposition: The arrangement of forms in a work of art.Ĭ ontent: A work of art is usually discussed in terms of its subject matter, form and content. The sensation of color is aroused in the brain by response of the eyes to different wavelengths of light. ![]() (For example: imagine a beach ball by the side of a stick and two baseballs on the other side balancing out the picture.)īalance: A principle of art and design concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical (identical compositional units on either side of an axis) or asymmetrical (not identical) in design and proportion.Ĭolor: Element of art derived from reflected light. Asymmetrical: A balance achieved through the use of unequal parts or elements. ![]()
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