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FINAL REVIEW
San Diego Unified School District
Visual and Performing Arts Department
Visual Art 1-2
Leonardo da Vinci – Hands
The process used to create work of art is called
Painting
Drawing
Printmaking
Calligraphy
:
Nevelson – Cascade
Is an example of:
Casting
Carving
Assemblage
Collage
Winslow Homer - Watercolor
Which painting tool did the artist use to create this work of art?
Brush
Palette Knife
Paint Roller
Fingers
MC Escher – Eye
The predominant principle of design used in the work of art is:
Movement
Dominance
Value
Repetition
Andy Warhol – Campbell’s Soup
The predominant principle of design used in this work of art is:
Emphasis
Contrast
Rhythm
Balance
Joseph Stella – Brooklyn Bridge
What kind of balance did the artist use to arrange this work of art?
Asymmetrical
Symmetrical
Radial
Informal Balance
A technique used to shorten an object to make it look as if it
extends backward into space is called FOPRESHORTENING
Artists use PROPORTION to show the size relationship of one thing
to another.
Artists use SCALE to show the size of something measured against a
standard reference
In GESTURE DRAWINGS, lines are drawn rapidly for the purpose
of capturing the subject’s movement.
CONTOUR DRAWINGS use continuous lines
HATCHING is the shading technique in which thin lines run in the
same direction.
EXAGGERATION is a technique that artists use to change normal
proportions.
Original Steve Tyler
EXAGGERATION
of
Steve Tyler
The EYES are halfway between the
top of the head and the chin
EYES ARE HALFWAY
PREHISTORIC PEOPLE did not create art for decoration
Some scholars believe the paintings were part of a hunting ritual.
Drawn by a shaman or a medicine man and believing that the hunters would capture the animal.
The invention of the CAMERA had the greatest impact on art.
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The camera freed artists from the tedium of creating realist portraiture.
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It allowed the ability to express themselves.
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Challenged by the camera's ability to freeze a moment in time.
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Artists began to show their "impression" of a moment in time that is
effected by light and color.
Influence of IMPRESSIONIST art can be described as featuring
everyday subjects, and effects of light on color.
PROPAGANDA POSTERS
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PROPAGANDA POSTERS are used:
To achieve political objectives OR
Intended to achieve social change on a massive scale.
The function of the war poster is
to make coherent and
acceptable a basically
incoherent and irrational ordeal
of killing, suffering, and
destruction that violate every
accepted principle of morality
and decent living.”
--O.W. Riegal, propaganda
analyst for the Office of War
Information
Contemporary culture in America has variety of purposes due to
our country’s CUTURAL DIVERSITY
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
CONTEMORARY CULTURE is diverse.
An image, when used as a LOGO, that has a political meaning or
message would be a DOVE holding an olive branch.
Other LOGOS that DO NOT have a political meaning BUT
represents a business or sport would be:
Apple
Business
Mermaid
Starbucks
Business
Lightening Bolt
Chargers
Sport