OAE Art (006) flashcards

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Elements of art

The basic visual components used to build any artwork: line, shape, form, value, color, texture, and space. They are the vocabulary of visual analysis.

Principles of design

Organizational strategies that arrange the elements of art, including balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, unity, and proportion. They describe how elements are combined.

Value in art

The relative lightness or darkness of a color or area. Value creates the illusion of volume and light and is independent of hue.

Complementary colors

Colors opposite each other on the color wheel, such as red and green. Mixed together they neutralize toward gray; placed side by side they intensify contrast.

Tint, shade, tone

A tint is a hue plus white, a shade is a hue plus black, and a tone is a hue plus gray. These terms describe value and saturation adjustments to a base color.

Negative space

The area around and between the subjects of a composition. Skilled use of negative space shapes balance and can define form without drawn outlines.

Buon fresco

A mural technique in which pigment suspended in water is applied to wet lime plaster. As the plaster cures, calcium carbonate forms and locks the color permanently into the wall.

Egg tempera

A painting medium binding pigment in egg yolk emulsion. It dries rapidly, dries matte and opaque, and is traditionally layered on a gessoed wood panel.

Intaglio printing

A printmaking family, including etching, engraving, and drypoint, in which ink sits in recessed lines cut below the plate surface and is transferred under high pressure.

Relief printing

A printmaking process such as woodcut or linocut in which the raised, uncut surface carries ink and the cut-away areas print as white.

Lithography

A planographic printmaking process relying on the mutual repulsion of grease and water on a flat stone or metal plate, with no incised lines or raised surface.

Lost-wax casting

A bronze casting method using a wax model encased in a mold; the wax burns out, molten metal fills the void, and the mold is broken to release the sculpture.

Additive vs subtractive sculpture

Additive sculpture builds up material, as in modeling clay or assembling objects. Subtractive sculpture removes material, as in carving stone or wood.

Linear perspective

A system using a horizon line and vanishing points to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface. One-point uses one vanishing point, two-point uses two.

Chiaroscuro

The use of strong contrasts of light and dark to model three-dimensional form and create dramatic emphasis, especially associated with Renaissance and Baroque painting.

Foreshortening

A perspective technique that compresses forms along the line of sight so that objects projecting toward the viewer appear shorter, conveying depth.

Atmospheric perspective

A depth cue in which distant forms lose contrast, saturation, and detail and shift toward the background color, mimicking the effect of atmosphere over distance.

Rule of thirds

A compositional guideline dividing the picture into a three-by-three grid and placing key elements along the lines or at their intersections for dynamic balance.

Additive color mixing

Mixing colored light using red, green, and blue primaries. Combining all three at full intensity produces white, as in screens and stage lighting.

Subtractive color mixing

Mixing pigments or inks so each layer absorbs more light. Cyan, magenta, and yellow are the process primaries, and mixing all three approaches black.

Simultaneous contrast

The perceptual shift in which a color appears different depending on the surrounding color. A gray appears warmer against blue and cooler against orange.

Munsell color system

A color-order system describing each color by hue, value, and chroma. It provides a standardized, perceptually even framework for specifying colors.

Feldman art criticism model

A four-stage sequence for discussing art: description of what is present, analysis of how elements are organized, interpretation of meaning, and judgment of quality.

DBAE

Discipline-Based Art Education, an approach organizing art instruction into four disciplines: aesthetics, art criticism, art history, and art production.

Aesthetic formalism

A theory holding that the value of art lies in its significant form, meaning the arrangement of visual elements, rather than in content, emotion, or context.

National Core Arts Standards

A framework organizing arts learning into four processes: Creating, Presenting/Performing/Producing, Responding, and Connecting, applied across grade levels and arts disciplines.

Analytic rubric

An assessment tool that scores each criterion separately on a scale of performance levels, producing a profile of strengths rather than one overall score.

Formative assessment

Ongoing assessment during instruction, such as critiques, sketches, and exit tickets, used to adjust teaching and guide student revision before final evaluation.

Portfolio assessment

Evaluation based on a curated collection of student work gathered over time, documenting growth, revision, and reflective thinking rather than a single finished product.

Greek black-figure pottery

A Greek vase-painting technique in which figures are painted in black slip on the red clay ground, with details incised through the slip before firing.

Cubism

An early twentieth-century movement, developed by Picasso and Braque, that fractures subjects into multiple simultaneous viewpoints and flattens pictorial space.

Dada readymade

An ordinary manufactured object presented as art, exemplified by Duchamp's Fountain. It challenges the idea that art requires craftsmanship or aesthetic beauty.

Gothic architecture

A medieval building style characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows, allowing tall, light-filled interiors.