Homework assignment 3 Ujjie

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.