ART 101.
Built around real course units and objectives!
Art - Answer: A visual object or experience consciously created through an expression or
skill or imagination.
Form - Answer: An object that can be defined in three dimensions.
Content - Answer: Meaning of what we see.
Representational - Answer: Art that depicts the natural appearance of things.
Naturalists - Answer: A realistic or life like style of making images.
Stylized - Answer: Art that represents objects in an exaggerated way according to present
conventions.
Abstract - Answer: Art in which the natural appearance of things is simplified, distorted, or
exaggerated.
Non-Representational - Answer: Art that does not depict a recognizable subject.
Actual line - Answer: Can be regular or irregular.
Contour - Answer: line used to define the outside of a form.
Gesture - Answer: Line showing the dynamics or action of an object.
Implied line - Answer: Suggested by elements that your eye will connect.
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, Directional line - Answer: Actual or implied lines that direct the viewers attention, including
slight lines.
Line - Answer: An actual or implied mark connecting two points.
Vertical - Answer: Strength, Authority, Stability
Horizontal - Answer: Calm, Peace, Passsiveness
Diagonal - Answer: Movement, Action, Drama
Shape - Answer: Two dimensional area with identifiable boundaries.
Positive shape - Answer: A shape defined by its surrounding empty space.
Negative space - Answer: An empty space given shape by its surrounding.
Figure/Ground reversal - Answer: The reversal of the relationship between one shape and
its background.
Volume - Answer: The space filled or enclosed by a three dimensional object.
Closed form - Answer: Solid overall form when the mass has little or no penetration by
space; appears very heavy, solid and has a sense of perminance.
Open form - Answer: Has more of a range of dimensionality, without wardprojection, and
inward recesses.
Geometric - Answer: Regular forms of geometry.
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Built around real course units and objectives!
Art - Answer: A visual object or experience consciously created through an expression or
skill or imagination.
Form - Answer: An object that can be defined in three dimensions.
Content - Answer: Meaning of what we see.
Representational - Answer: Art that depicts the natural appearance of things.
Naturalists - Answer: A realistic or life like style of making images.
Stylized - Answer: Art that represents objects in an exaggerated way according to present
conventions.
Abstract - Answer: Art in which the natural appearance of things is simplified, distorted, or
exaggerated.
Non-Representational - Answer: Art that does not depict a recognizable subject.
Actual line - Answer: Can be regular or irregular.
Contour - Answer: line used to define the outside of a form.
Gesture - Answer: Line showing the dynamics or action of an object.
Implied line - Answer: Suggested by elements that your eye will connect.
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, Directional line - Answer: Actual or implied lines that direct the viewers attention, including
slight lines.
Line - Answer: An actual or implied mark connecting two points.
Vertical - Answer: Strength, Authority, Stability
Horizontal - Answer: Calm, Peace, Passsiveness
Diagonal - Answer: Movement, Action, Drama
Shape - Answer: Two dimensional area with identifiable boundaries.
Positive shape - Answer: A shape defined by its surrounding empty space.
Negative space - Answer: An empty space given shape by its surrounding.
Figure/Ground reversal - Answer: The reversal of the relationship between one shape and
its background.
Volume - Answer: The space filled or enclosed by a three dimensional object.
Closed form - Answer: Solid overall form when the mass has little or no penetration by
space; appears very heavy, solid and has a sense of perminance.
Open form - Answer: Has more of a range of dimensionality, without wardprojection, and
inward recesses.
Geometric - Answer: Regular forms of geometry.
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