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Art Fundamentals (1) Academic Decathlon PCS

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Line, Shape, Form *Line: A path of a point moving through space. -Solid? Interrupted? -Horizontal: Suggests peace and tranquility. -Vertical: Move the eyes upwards (N.B. Gothic architecture) -Curved: Indicates action, motion, and chaos *Shape: Space that defines the two- dimensional area. *Form: Objects that are three-dimensional (with length, width, and depth) -Organic v. Geometric -Positive Space: Objects in the artwork -Negative Space: Area around these objects that frames them

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Is this a shape or a form?

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Is this geometric or organic?

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggios The Entombment (Rome) *Explore the positive and negative space here. *What shapes/forms are constructed? *What is Caravaggio doing with line?

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Perspective *Perspective: The illusion of depth created by manipulating line, shape, form, light, and use of space. -Linear -Aerial/Atmospheric *Vanishing point(s): Geometric location on the horizon used to construct linear perspective *Renaissance: In Western Art, perspective indicated the evolution from Medieval art to the Renaissance, stemming from scientific discovery and movement away from purely religious, iconographic depictions of the world.

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Pietro Peruginos fresco at the Sistine Chapels North Wall (in Vatican)

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Unknown Italian artist from the 13 th century (Vatican)

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Michelangelo da Buonarottis Creation of Adam (center)

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Color/Hue *Hue: The technical name of the color -Primary (blue, red, yellow) -Secondary (orange, green, violet) -Tertiary (six) *Value: measure of darkness in a hue or gray *Neutral: white, black, and grays in between -These cannot be hues *Intensity: purity of a color (how mixed is it?) *Local color: true color as seen in normal daylight *Optical color: the effect that lighting has on the color (night, fog, candlelight, etc.) *Texture: How things feel or how we think they would feel if touched

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Color Wheel (hues only)

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Robert Rauschenbergs Untitled (NY Met)

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Georges-Pierre Seurats A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Louvre)

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Claude Monets Impression, Sunrise (Musee Monet, Paris)

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William Turners Shipwreck of the Minotaur (Lisbon)

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William Turners Landscape in the Fog (Berlin)