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Art Expo Review
Spring 2014
Your final will consist of:
• Several questions specific to the projects
covered in class
• General knowledge questions about the
elements of art and principles of design.
• Questions where you will be asked to
demonstrate knowledge of techniques.
Line Design
• The meditative drawing technique you used in
creating this project:
Zentangle
• What are the 8 characteristics of Line?
-direction, size, weight, geometric, organic,
implied, clarity, value
• What 2 principles of design did you
demonstrate in your design?
– Balance and variety
Texture hands
• What pen and ink techniques did you learn in this
project?
stipple, wavy line, contour line, scribble, hatch,
crosshatch, criss-cross lines
• What type of texture did you demonstrate on this
project?
simulated
• What is the pen tip called?
nib
Symmetry portraits
• What two facial features sit on the horizontal midpoint?
eyes and ears
• How wide is the human head?
5 eyes
• What facial feature line up with the pupils of your eyes?
mouth
• Female features tend to be:
lighter line and more organic
• while male features are:
Heavier line and more geometric
Pop Art Posters
Tom Wesselman was know for using this technique to create visual interest:
Stylization
This artist was known for exaggerating color schemes to depict famous
celebrities:
Andy Warhol
James Rosenquist used this technique to make the viewer look at his subjects
in a different way:
re-arrangement
This artist used scale to create visual interest:
Claus Oldenberg
Pop Art (cont….)
Where and when did this art movement originate?
Britain in the 1950’s
What does Dada mean?
“anti-art” thought anything could be called art
What social influences shaped the popularity of this
movement?
industrial age and advertizing industry
Color Theory
• Why are primary colors called primary?
They cannot be made by mixing other colors
• Define a complementary color scheme:
two colors across from each other on the color wheel
• What happens to complementary colors when you mix them?
they neutralize
• Define an Analogous color scheme:
any three colors NEXT to each other on the wheel
• Define Monochromatic:
one color
• A color +white is called a:
tint
• A color +black is called a:
shade
• How do you make an intermediate color?
by mixing a primary and a secondary color NEXT to each other on the
color wheel.
Elements of Art
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Any mark that shows direction:
line
A 3D area enclosed by a line:
Form
How light or dark the surface of an object appears:
value
How a ray of light appears when it reflects off of the surface of an object:
color
A 2D area enclosed by a line:
shape
The surface condition of an object/how something feels:
texture
The area an artist uses to create their artwork:
space
Principles of Design
• The repetition of parts:
pattern
• The size of an object in relation to another:
scale
• When no one section stands out from the rest:
unity
• When all parts are equal:
balance
• To make one part stand out from the rest:
emphasis
• The use of several visual elements to create visual interest:
variety
• The use of opposites to create visual interest:
contrast
Cityscapes
• What type of perspective did you use to
create the optical illusion of space in your
drawing?
2pt- Linear Perspective (must be complete)
• You added _____ colors to create shadows
and _________ colors on the highlighted
surfaces.
Cool
Warm
Watercolor stamps
• What painting technique did you demonstrate
in your stamp design?
wet-on-wet
• What is a Motif?
a group of related images/visual theme
Kandinsky Vessels
• What was the artist depicting in his painting?
music
• What art movement was he involved in?
Bauhaus
• Where was he born?
Moscow
• Clay that is wet, but rigid:
leatherhard
• Clay that has been fired one time:
Bisqueware
Kandinsky Vessel
• What are the three hand building techniques:
slab, pinch, coil
• Bone dry clay that has not been fired:
greenware
• You must always _______________your pieces
before attaching.
slip and score
• Recycling clay by soaking in water:
slaking
Vessel cont……..
• The process of melting the clay particles to
form a ceramic material:
vitrification
• Finely ground minerals that melt to form a
glass coating:
glaze
Techniques
• What are the three rules of shading?
always follow the contour
don’t move the muscles in your hand
shade from the elbow
• Name the color pencil technique where you blend
thick layers of color so no paper shows through:
Burnishing
Papel Picado
• Definition of Papel Picado:
Punched paper
• What Aztec emperor started traditional use of this art form?
Montezuma II
• The Day of the Dead Holiday is based in what religion?
Catholic
• What type of balance did you demonstrate in your design?
symmetrical
• A group of related but different images is called a
____________.
motif
Tessellations
• The term tessellation means:
To tile
• What artist was known for this art form?
M.C. Escher
• What did he put in his tessellations that were
missing in Islamic tessellation patterns?
living creatures
• What are the three types of tessellation?
Translation, rotation, mid-point rotation.