What is horizontal and vertical placement? Horizontal
placement is to place qualities in a piece or the piece themselves
horizontally, one next to the other while vertical is to place them one atop
another.
What is symmetrical balance, and give an art historical
example? Symmetrical balance is art that has equal visual weight throughout
each side of the piece, one example of this would be the taj mahal.
How can asymmetrical balance be achieved with
value/color/ shape and texture? Asymmetrical balance is when a piece is not
perfectly symmetrical but because of utilizing similar colors, shapes, and
values the piece will visually appear equal even though it isn’t.
What is radial balance? Radial balance is when a piece
of art has equally distributed elements from one central point.
Give a good example of a piece of artwork? Caitlyn
Crowley
What is a shape and how does it differ from volume and
mass? Shape is a figures general form while volume and mass are actual
measurements of a shapes qualities.
What is the difference between naturalism and
distortion in art and design? Naturalism in art is when an artists depict
realistic objects in their natural settings while distortion is taking a
natural object and changing certain aspects of it to make it unnatural.
Define abstraction: How is your fire and water panel abstract? What
concepts are informing your work on this project? Abstraction is when a piece
does not depict a being place or thing, it may though be a simplified
generalization of a being, place, or thing. My piece represents a woman’s form
yet does not show one, it also has different variations of lines to represent
different emotions. I used varying curvilinear and straight lines and
variations on the thickness of lines to convey different emotions to the
viewer.
Non-objective- Abstract art that uses form, color, and
line to create a piece that represents an idea
Curvilinear- The line quality in art that has a curved
quality to it
Rectilinear- The line quality in art that has a
rectangular shape to it
Positive and negative shapes- When both the positive
and negative space in a piece both appear to have a recognizable form
List three ways to depict illusion of depth –
overlapping – linear perspective – atmospheric perspective
What is one point perspective? Representing a shape
with lines that radiate from one point
Two point perspective? Representing a shape with lines
that radiate from two points
What is an isometric projection? Method for
representing three dimensional shapes in art
What is equivocal space? A space in which it’s hard to
distinguish the foreground from the background
Maggie Fields
This piece represents the idea of equivocal
space since there are no definite foreground and background figures. Each
shape utilizes two point perspective since there would be two
perspective points that each shape radiates from. Fields uses curvilinear
lines in the bottom half of the piece creating a sense of asymmetrical
balance between the top and bottom half of the piece with a clear split due
to the horizontal placement of the lines and the curved figures. Both
the positive and negative spaces in the picture create a sense of
balance, with the lightest (positive) space in the center radiating out toward
the darker (negative) space. All these different art basics are utilized in
this piece to create an over all calming sensation and an aesthetically
pleasing quality to the piece.
