Art Appreciation

Looking at Art

Where is the work displayed?

How is the work displayed?

Is it real or a reproduction?

Where am I?

Point of View: Where the viewer is visually in in the composition – above, below, or with a head-on view of a scene

Focal Point: The center of focus or the most important part of a work of art, where the eye lands first and usually lands last.

Point of View

Sistine MadonnaRaphael, 1513

Point of View

Adoration of the Shepherds

Gerrit van Honthorst, 1622

Focal Point

Madonna of the Meadow

Raphael, 1505

Focal Point

Battle of Carnival and Lent

Brueghel the Elder, 1559

Focal Point

Convergence, Jackson Pollock, 1952

Color

Analogous Colors Cool Colors Warm Colors

Complementary Colors Blue to

Orange Red to Green Yellow to

Purple

Color School of Athens

Raphael, 1510-1511

Color

Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Line

Biomorphic: Lines that recreate biological or organic surfaces.

Curvilinear: Lines that are organic, biomorphic or natural.

Geometric: Lines that are angular.Descriptive: Lines that aid in

identifying an object or figure.Expressional: Lines that occur in

representations from abstract art to natural subjects.

Line

Demoiselles d’Avignon

Pablo Picasso, 1907

Geometric Expression

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Line

Child Holding a DovePablo Picasso, 1901

Biomorphic Descriptive Curvilinear

Line

New York, N.Y.Franz Kline, 1953

Geometric Expressional

Space Void: Vacant space.

Jubilee Gestalt Vase

Composition

The combination of color, line, and shape that give art a sense of balance. Symmetrical versus Asymmetrical Open versus Closed Scale or Proportion

Composition

Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the AlpsJ. M. W. Turner, 1812

Composition

Death of Germanicus

Nicolas Poussin, 1627