An Introduction to the Arts

Created By: Pamela Butler

Introduction

Visual arts Music Dance Theatre/Drama Pre-Renaissance It is important that we become

literate in the languages of the arts. WHY?

What artists use to express “Reality”

Part 1 We will meet the traditional art

disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, music, theatre, cinema, dance, architecture, and literature.

Each of the disciplines have their own language---terms and definitions

Part I Outline Pictures: drawings, painting,

printmaking, and photography Sculpture Music Theatre Cinema Dance Architecture Literature

Pictures: drawings, painting, printmaking, and photography

What are They? Let’s find out…draw me a picture.

Drawing the foundation of

two-dimensional art

Involves a wide variety of materials---dry media and wet media

Wash & brush

Dry Media chalk charcoal graphite pastel

Wet Media pen & ink wash & brush

Painting Oils Watercolor Tempera Acrylics Fresco Gouache

Starry Night By Vincent van Gogh

Printmaking relief printing –

woodcut, wood engraving, & linoleum cut

intaglio (in-TAH-lyoh) – etching, aquatint, & drypoint

planographic process – lithography, silkscreen, & stencilingAlbrecht Durer's

Lamentation

Photography

A matter of personal record. The photographer has the choice of size,

texture, and value contrast. Bring in three photographs that you have taken.

Pictures: drawings, painting, printmaking, and photography How are they put together?

Media – drawing, painting, printmaking, &photography

Composition – elements & principles Profile: Pablo Picasso

Other factors – perspective, chiaroscuro, & content

Painting and Human Reality: Géricault's Raft of the “Medusa”

Pablo Picasso “Old Guitarist” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLi9QKaPU4 Part 1 of 9

Pablo Picasso “Guernica”http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/guernica.html

Theodore Géricault “Raft of Medusa”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8KGft79MaU

Composition Elements Line – the basic

building block of a visual design A linear form in

which length dominates ever width

A color edge An implication of

continued direction

Picasso’s ‘Girl before a Mirror’

Composition Elements Cont…

Form – the shape of an object within a composition

The spaced described by the line

Composition Elements Cont…

Color – hue, value, & intensity Hue – denotes the

measurable wavelength of a specific color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet)

Value – key, relationship of blacks to whites to grays

Intensity – chroma or saturation, degree of purity of a hue

Composition Elements Cont…

Mass – the physical volume and density of an object

the use of light and shade, texture, and perspective

Texture – roughness or smoothness (impasto, applied with a palette knife)

Giovanni Vanni’s “Holy Family with St. John”

Composition Elements Cont…

Principles Repetition – rhythm,

harmony, & variation Balance – equilibrium

in a work (symmetrical, formal & asymmetrical, informal)

Unity – means by which it achieves unity

Focal area – the focal point

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper

Composition Elements Cont… Perspective –

indicates spatial relationships

Chiaroscuro – light & shade, gives the picture its character

Content – ranging from naturalism to stylization

How Do They Simulate the Senses?

Contrasts A personal Journey: Picasso, Guernica

Dynamics Trompe L’oeil (tromp-LUH-yuh) Juxtaposition Focus Objectivity

Important Terms: QUICK REVIEW

Intaglio Lithography Composition Line Form Hue

Value Intensity Variation Symmetry Perspective Chiaroscuro

Intaglio (in-TAL-ee-oh) The printmaking

process in which ink is transferred from the grooves of a metal plate to paper by extreme pressure

Lithography A printmaking

technique, based on the principle that oil and water do not mix, in which ink is applied to a piece of paper from a specially prepared stone.

Composition The arrangement

of line, form, mass, color, and so forth in a work of art.

Line The basic building

block of visual design: for example, a thin mark, a color edge, or implied.

Form The shape of an

object within a composition.

Hue The spectrum

notation of color.

Value The relationships of lights to

darks in a visual composition.

Intensity The degree of

purity of a color.

Variation The relationship

of repeated items in a composition to each other.

Symmetry The balancing of

like forms and colors on opposite sides of the vertical axis of a composition.

Perspective The creation of

the illusion of distance in a picture through the use of line, atmosphere, and so on.

Chiaroscuro Light and shade;

the balance of light and shade across the whole picture.