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Quiz Reviewer Arts Appreciation
Quiz Reviewer Arts Appreciation
Art comes from the latin word “Ars” meaning ability or skill
Theories of Art
1. Expressionism art - Express emotion
2. Distortion art - Exaggerated, elongated, twisted, deformed art.(Pablo Picasso’s “Le
Reve” art)
3. Formalism - More on critics. Observation of elements used. Such as color, line shape,
and texture.
4. Realism - Focuses on reality
5. Abstraction - More on freedom, use geometric shapes.
Line
- It is a mark with length and direction
- one -dimensional
Types of line
- Horizontal suggests feeling of rest or repose, give sense of space
- Vertical line communicates as sense of height
- diagonal
- Zigzag conveys action and excitement,restlessness and anxiety
- Straight or curve has pleasing, sensual quality and a softening effect
- Think or thin
Shape and Form
- Shape is 2 dimension while form is 3 dimension
- Shape is only width and height while form also has width and height but it also has depth
- Shape is not tangible while form is tangible
Space
- Feeling of depth or three dimensions
- Occupied by the object is the positive space
- The non-occupied is the negative space
- Pieter Saenredam
Color
-is what we can see around us. How light behaves.
- Color can be describe into two which is warm and cool color
value= light and darkness/ it is a color that is mix with white and black color to create moods