The basic toolkit for making art, including line, shape, texture, volume, mass, light, contrast, color, perspective, and motion. Most of these elements you’ll have to use in Parts 4 and 5 on the test. 3: Design and composition. This chapter gives the concepts that you need to know in order to analyze art, such as unity, variety, balance, symmetry, focal point, rhythm, scale, etc. These concepts don’t always work in isolation, and are best tested by having you look at objects and describe them.
REVIEW QUESTIONS – Chapter 8 1. What different components of a person's perceptual screens may distort communication? Perceptual screens are composed of the personal factors each person brings to interpersonal communication, such as age, gender, values, beliefs, past experiences, cultural influences, and individual needs. Perceptual screens are the windows through which people interact with each other. These screens can influence both the communicator and the receivers quality, accuracy and clarity of the message.
Variety is created through the different shapes, patterns, and contrasting colors that bring the painting together. Activity C: Evaluating a Painting Directions Evaluate Frida Kahlo’s painting Diego and I. Then answer the following questions. Write your answer in the box. 1.
Genre is a kind of writing such as a proposal, a report, a letter, a profile, a poem, ECT. In this section Bullock and Goggins emphasize how “Genres have particular conventions for presenting information that help the writers write and the readers read” (9). A stance is your attitude towards your topic, how others perceive you. Bullock and Goggins point out “The way you express that stance affects the way you come across as a writer and a person” (12). The design should be determined by what circumstances your writing is
Assigned essay topics will often require students to incorporate artworks from the non-European world. Themes and topics include both context and visual analysis. [C2] • The human body • Objects related to religious ritual • Narrative art • Sacred spaces (religious architecture and sites) • How art and architecture convey power and authority • Formal analysis of an artwork • The relationship of the artist to society • The role of the patron who supported the artist • Issues of gender • Cultural diversity C2—The course teaches students to understand works of art within their historical context
“Composers of distinctively visual texts use techniques that allow the audience to ‘see’ with their eyes as well as with their minds.” Through the use of techniques, a composer is able to create distinctively visual images when describing setting and characters, which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts. The use of techniques to create distinctively visual images, which help us to convey an understanding and form a meaning, is evident in the play “The shoe horn sonata” by John Misto and the film “Paradise Road” by Bruce Beresford. Bruce Beresford’s film and John Misto’s play incorporates an array of dramatic techniques, both visual and auditory, to bring to life the extraordinary
Examine how effectively composers create and manipulate distinctively visual elements to shape an audience understanding of the ideas and attitudes presented in texts. When creating texts that convey meaning and depth through intellectual techniques, composers will often include distinctively visual elements that allow the audience to truly become involved and relate on a much deeper level, leading to their perceptions being altered and shaped as the composers desire. Sarah Watt’s movie “Look both ways” and John Misto’s play “The Shoe-Horn Sonata” are both prime examples of how distinctly visual elements assist in shaping our understanding of any the issues composers put across in their texts. Through the use of effective stage direction,
Opinion Paper on Chapter 4 Chapter four is all about style, form, and content. The chapter begins with a quote from Philip Johnson, which reads, “The duty of an artist is to strain against the bonds of the existing style.” This quote helps to set the stage for how the chapter is going to go. The chapter, Style, Form, and Content, lets readers in on the ideas of how art style is born, how art styles are different from one another, how art can be of the same style, yet completely different, how art can be appreciated, and so much more. Although the chapter is not very long, it is jam-packed with information for the ready, which is extremely important. The author fills readers in on what style is, along with what form and content are, all on the first page.
Describe how Expressionism is visually and thematically characterized in art history. What does an Expressionistic Artwork mean? What are some of the similar stylistic elements seen in Expressionist artworks that are seen again and again? In your own words refer to the art book Caves to Canvas in the art room to see what is written about the art movement and try and add your own information and interpretation to this movement. The websites mentioned earlier should also assist?
Visual Elements of Art • Line – technical definition: the path of a moving point. Uses in art: provide boundaries between forms, indicate direction or motion, show shadows or highlighting, express spatial depth on flat surfaces, can be expressive in themselves, or serve as symbols. A line may also be implied. Sarah Sze in her mixed media presentation of Hidden Relief demonstrates several uses of line. In this example lines show direction and motion and clearly define the borders of the form.