ART 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 136 pages long!)
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Aesthetics: a set of principles concerned with the nature & appreciation of beauty. The sensation that you get from seeing the work. Why do people create things? (consider reasons or purposes. ) Form refers to purely visual components and composition. Content refers to subject matter, ideas expressed, artist intentions or meaning for the viewer. Consider the context; history of the art work; its place, time and social/cultural influences. One of first to experiment with oils. Pyramidal: the main subject takes up the middle triangle of the canvas. The colors used for mona lisa come across as very warm. The yellows and bit of red create that warmth. Width of the head in sculpture is used to measure how far the shoulders come out. Form & content: terms that describe the 2 basic directions of study in this course. Styles of art (4): realism, symbolism, abstraction, nonobjective. Elements of art: line, shape, mass, space, value(light), color, texture.
