Introduction

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Art Appreciation I

Looking at Art

Getting Started

Form

• Purely visual aspects of Art

• Line, Color, Texture, Space, Composition

Line

Line is an element – usually drawn or painted that defines shape with a more-or-less continuous mark

Form

ColorColor has 3 attributes – Hue, Value, and Saturation

Form

Hue

• Hue is what we think of when we hear the word color

• Red, Yellow, and, Green are Hues

Color

Value

Value is the relative degree of a lightness or darkness of a given color

Light values

Dark values

Color

SaturationSaturation (or intensity) is a color’s quality of brightness or dullness

Low saturation

High saturation

Color

Texture

Texture is the tactile (or touch-perceived) quality of a surface. Texture can be real or implied.

Real TextureImplied Visual Texture

Form

Space

Space is what contains objects

Space can be represented illusionistically in two-dimensional art

Space may be actual in three-dimensional art and architecture

Form

Composition

The organization of

form in an artwork

Form

Content

Content includes aspects that contain meaning

What is the artist’s idea or concept?

Content includes the subject matter (What is the subject?)

Art Can Tell Stories

Art contains symbols that have meaning

Content

Some Popular Subjects in Art

Love

Beauty

Life

Nature

ReligionPoliticsHistoryScienceWar

Content

Style

Style is the combination of form and content that makes the work distinctive.

Period StyleDescribes the common traits detectable in works of art and

architecture from a certain time

Late 19th Century Art

Painting Photograph

Regional Style Stylistic Traits that persist in

a geographic region.

German Expressionist Art (Early 20th Century)

Formalist Style

Art that uses form in a similar way

(usually from a certain time in history, and

sometimes from the same place)

Minimalist Sculpture

Late 20th Century

Medium

Material or Materials from which an object is made

Two-Dimensional Mediums are flat, and include

Painting, Drawing, Graphic Arts, and Photography

Three-Dimensional Mediums have dimension, and

include Sculpture and Architecture

PaintingMedium

DrawingMedium

Graphic ArtsMedium

SculptureMedium

Mixed MediaMedium

Ephemeral ArtMedium

ArchitectureMedium