New Vocabulary #2

Principles of art

Rules that govern

how artists organize
the elements of art.

Subject ( Art)

The image viewers

can easily identify
in a work of art.

Nonobjective art

Art that has no

recognizable
subject matter.

Composition

The way the

principles of art are
used to organize
the elements of art.

Content (

The message work

the work
communicates.

Credit line

A list of important
facts about a work
of art.

Medium

Material used to make

art.

Gertrude Stein

She had a huge art

collection filled with
amazing pieces of art. She
published a book, The
Autobiography of Alice B.
Tokas, which became a
best seller.

Grant wood

Grant DeVolson Wood was an

American painter. He is best
known for his paintings
depicting the rural American
Midwest, particularly the
painting American Gothic, an
iconic image of the 20th century.

Art Criticism-Critique

An organized approach
for studying a work of
art.

Principals of Art

Rules that govern how

artists organize the
elements of art.

Aesthetics

The philosophy art or

study of the nature and
value of art.

Aesthetics Experience

A persons interaction
and response to a
piece of work, including
its visual, literal and
expressive qualities.

Literal qualities

The realistic qualities

that appear in in the
subject of the work.

Formal qualities

Formal Qualities
generally means the
most important and
unique aspects
about something

The expressive qualities

ArtLex Lexicon of
Visual Art Terminology.

Literalism

The style of art

portraying a subject as
literally and accurately
as possible.

Formalism

Theory that places

emphasis on the formal
qualities.

Expressive

Those qualities that

communicate ideas
and moods.

Imitationalism

An aesthetic theory
focusing focusing on
realistic presentation

emotionalism

Theory that requires

that a work of art must
arouse a response of
feelings, moods, or
emotions in the viewer

formalism

Excessive adherence to
prescribed forms.

culture

The arts and other

manifestations of human
intellectual achievement
regarded collectively

Cultural
anthropology

Cultural civilization,
taken in its broad,
ethnographic sense, is
that complex whole
which includes
knowledge, belief, art,
morals, law, custom,
and any other
capabilities and habits
acquired by man as a
member of society.

Huichols

A native American
thnic group of western
central Mexico, living in
the sierra Madre
Occidenta I range in
the Mexican states of
Nayarit, Jalisco,
Zacatecas, and
Durango.

Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe

Jacinto Dal i Domnech,
Marqus de Dal de Pubol,
known as Salvador Dal, was a
prominent Spanish surrealist
painter born in Figueres,
Catalonia, Spain.

Jose Orozco

Jos Clemente Orozco was a

Mexican painter, who
specialized in bold murals that
established the Mexican Mural
Renaissance together with
murals by Diego Rivera, David
Alfaro Siqueiros, and others

Henri Matisse

Henri-mile-Benot Matisse was

a French artist, known for both
his use of colour and his fluid
and original draughtsmanship.
He was a draughtsman,
printmaker, and sculptor, but is
known primarily as a painter.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also

known as Pablo Picasso, was a
Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist, stage
designer, poet and playwright
who spent most of his adult life
in France.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was an American

artist who was a leading figure
in the visual art movement
known as pop art. His works
explore the relationship between
artistic expression, celebrity
culture, and advertisement that
flourished by the 1960s.

Georgia Okeefe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an

American artist. She is best
known for her paintings of
enlarged flowers, New York
skyscrapers, and New Mexico
landscapes. O'Keeffe has been
recognized as the "Mother of
American modernism"

Andy wharol

An artists who was considered

to define pop art movement.

Jacob Lawrence

(September 7, 1917 June 9,

2000) was an African known
for his portrayal of AfricanAmerican life. Lawrence
referred to his style as
"dynamic cubism," though by
his own account the primary
influence was not so much
French art as the shapes and
colors of Harlem

Surrealism

a 20th-century avant-garde
movement in art and literature
that sought to release the
creative potential of the
unconscious mind, for example
by the irrational juxtaposition of
images.

Layer mask

Layer mask are a fundamental

tool in image manipulations.

Cubism

Cubism was one of the most

influential visual art styles of the
early twentieth century.

POP Art

Pop art is an art movement that

emerged in the mid-1950s in
Britain and the late 1950s in the
United States.

Art work

Art work illustrations,

photographs, or other
nontextual material prepared for
inclusion in a publication.

perceive

Perceive become aware or

conscious of (something); come
to realize or understand.

Folk artists

folk artists encompasses

art produced from an indigenous
culture or by peasants or other
laboring tradespeople. In
contrast to fine art folk art is
primarily utilitarian and
decorative rather than purely
aesthetic.

artists

a person who produces

paintings or drawings as a
profession or hobby.

Action painting

a technique and style of abstract

painting in which paint is
randomly splashed, thrown, or
poured on the canvas. It was
made famous by Jackson
Pollock, and formed part of the
more general movement of
abstract expressionism.

Symbol

a thing that represents or stands

for something else, especially a
material object representing
something abstract.

Elements of art

The visual components of color,

form, line, shape, space,
texture, and value.

Political art