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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