Art_Appreciation/Week-2/Notes.md

The Formal Elements of Art

• Line
  • A path of action left by a moving point
• Color
• Space
• Shape
• Light
• Texture
• Time
• Motion

Line

• A path of action left by a moving point

Outline

Indicates the shape of a two- or three-dimensional form and emphasize its flatness, as seen in Yoshitomo Nara's Dead Flower

Contour

• Forms the edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest volume, recession, or projection in space

Implied Line

• Lines that are not there, but our perception creates them

Qualities of Line

• Lines vary, a line drawn by a pen will be distinct from a line drawn by charcoal

Misc

• Vincent van Gogh uses expressive line in his works of art, flowing lines
• Analytical/Classical line are precise & measured, hard edges
• When you have a diagonal line they are most likely going to be expressive lines

Color

Shape

Shape is a two-dimensional area with identifiable boundaries

Distortions of Space and Foreshortening

• Photographs and media with perspective depict space as "real" because it is a monocular, or one-eyed, point of view.

• The stereoscope was invented in the nineteenth century to imitate binocular vision.

  • The close up, the difference is more discernible

• Foreshortening is the adjusting of dimensions of closer extremities to make up for the distortion created by the point of view -- the illusion of space on a two-dimensional area

Mass

• A mass is a solid that occupies three-dimensional volume

Figure Ground Relation

MC Esher employed a ton of Figure Ground Relation

Linear Perspective

• One-point linear perspective relies on a single point, or vanishing point, on the viewer's horizon to represent parallel receding lines.

• When the vanishing point is directly across from the vantage point (where viewer is positioned), the recession is frontal: if it is to one side or another, it is diagonal

• Linear Perspective was perfected during the Renascence, primarily by Massacio

Light

Atmospheric Perspective

• Shows space with light

Chiaroscuro

• Chiaroscuro refers to the balance of light and shade in a work, most often exhibited when the artist transitions from light to dark around a curved surface.
• Using chiaroscuro on a curved surface is called modeling

Baroque Light (Tenerism)

• Baroque Light (Tenerism) is the dramatic use of light

Hatching & Cross-Hatching

• Hatching is an area of closely spaced parallel lines to create value
• Cross-hatching is where on set of hatches is crossed at an angle by one or more sets of hatches, creating a darker area of lines

Color

Misc

• Newton states that white light consists of all colors in the spectrum
• Colors of bluer hues are colder while colors that are redder are warmer

Texture

Means tactile -- what we feel

Visual Texture

Texture that we can see