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Art Appreciation I

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Art Appreciation I

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Looking at Art

Getting Started

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Form

• Purely visual aspects of Art

• Line, Color, Texture, Space, Composition

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Line

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

Form

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ColorColor has 3 attributes – Hue, Value, and Saturation

Form

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Hue

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

• Red, Yellow, and, Green are Hues

Color

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Value

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

Light values

Dark values

Color

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

Low saturation

High saturation

Color

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Texture

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

Real TextureImplied Visual Texture

Form

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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

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Composition

The organization of

form in an artwork

Form

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Content

Content includes aspects that contain meaning

What is the artist’s idea or concept?

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

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Art Can Tell Stories

Art contains symbols that have meaning

Content

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Some Popular Subjects in Art

Love

Beauty

Life

Nature

ReligionPoliticsHistoryScienceWar

Content

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Style

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

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Period StyleDescribes the common traits detectable in works of art and

architecture from a certain time

Late 19th Century Art

Painting Photograph

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Regional Style Stylistic Traits that persist in

a geographic region.

German Expressionist Art (Early 20th Century)

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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

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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

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PaintingMedium

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DrawingMedium

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Graphic ArtsMedium

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SculptureMedium

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Mixed MediaMedium

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Ephemeral ArtMedium

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ArchitectureMedium