unit 1 visual arts

1. Ms. Aixa Rodriguez Unit 1 ESL/Visual Arts High School of World Cultures Bronx, NY

9. A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point. Ansel Adams Gustave Caillebotte

12. Pablo Picasso

17. The lightness or darkness of a color. MC Escher Pablo Picasso

18. An area clearly set off by one or more of the other six visual elements of art. They have height and width but not depth. Shapes are flat, 2 dimensional. Joan Miro

21. Gustave Caillebotte

25. Cecil Buller Texture- the element of art that refers to how things feel, or look as though they might feel , if touched. Visual texture- is texture you experience with your eyes as you remember them from experience. Ex. Paintings of velvet, leather, silk or concrete.

26. What we use to organize the Elements of Art, or the tools to make art.

27. Principle of art concerned with arranging the elements so that no one part of the work overpowers, ore seems heaver than, any other part. Alexander Calder

29. Symmetrical Balance The parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other. Leonardo DaVinci

30. Asymmetrical Balance When one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other. James Whistler

32. The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most. Jim Dine Gustav Klimt

34. CONTRAST A large difference between two things to create interest and tension. Ansel Adams Salvador Dali

35. The principle of art that indicates movement through the repetition of elements and objects. Marcel Duchamp

37. Vincent VanGogh

38. Gustav Klimt PATTERN -Two dimensional, decorative visual repetition. - Motif - unit of repetition in a visual pattern.

41. Harmony A principle of design where elements of art are combined to accent their similarities and bind the picture parts into a whole. Sandy Skoglund

42. Variety The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work. Marc Chagall