ART 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Spectral Color, Art History
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Art 100: art history starter kit and introduction. A work of art is material object having both form and content . Form: refers to the actual visual aspects of a work of art, so formal analysis is discussing speci c physical relationships within a particular work and how they interact. Form has to do with how it looks: formal analysis. The visual analysis discussing speci c physical relationships with particular work and how they interact: elements of art. The components an line, shape, color, light, texture, space, mass and volume: composition. How an artist organizes forms in an artwork, either by placing shapes on a at surface to create a two-dimensional work or by arranging forms in space: line. It is the path of a point moving in space. A continuous line de ning an object"s outer shape is a contour line. Lines occur in both 3d art ad 2d art. Text fonts are also examples of calligraphic lines.
