ART 2 Introduction to Art ARTMAKING: ARTMAKING: some TERMINOLOGY TERMINOLOGY and CONCEPTS CONCEPTS Vasily Kandinsky
Jul 13, 2015
ART 2 Introduction to Art
ARTMAKING:ARTMAKING: some
TERMINOLOGYTERMINOLOGYand
CONCEPTSCONCEPTSVasily Kandinsky
MEDIUMS/ MEDIA: MATERIALS and TOOLS of ART-MAKING
Pastels (chalk)
Watercolor and Ink
Paint: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
Photography/Camera
Pencil, Colored Pencil
Digital/ Computer
Ceramics
Sculpture: Stone Carving
2-Dimensional MEDIApainting, drawing, photography, digital art, printmaking…
photographyacrylic painting
chalk drawing
digital print
printmaking
oil painting
watercolor painting
photography
pen and ink
Painting byDana Schutz
FORM refers to the purely abstract visual qualities in the
work, such as particular COLORS, types of SHAPES and TEXTURES, or
the quality of SPACE.
CONTENT refers to what is represented and to MEANINGS that might be communicated.
The abstract visual components of a work of art
are known as
Formal Elements of ArtFormal Elements of Artoror
“The Elements of Form”.The arrangement of formal elements
as a unified work is known as a COMPOSITION.
Christo (“Running Fence”)
Picasso light drawing
Franz Kline painting
Chloe Piene pencil drawing
Louise Bourgeois sculpture
LI NE
A line can bethought ofas a moving point.
Philip Guston
LINE describes oroutlines form…
Childe Hassam
and edges of form are seen as line…
Donald Lipski
and form may be a line.
Jack Thompson
Matisse paper cut-out
Jackie Winsor sculpture
Monet painting
Tom Friedman sculpture
SHAPE Shapes can be thought of as enclosed line.
Wouter Dam
“Negative Shapes” or “Negative Spaces” are the shapes thatexist between the shapes of represented forms in a composition. In a painting, negative shapes may be made up in part by edges of the canvas.
Paul Gaugin
Salvadore Dali painting
Magdalena Jetelova installation
Jiang Yangze ceramic sculpture
R. Devore ceramic vessel
SPACE:SPACE:Volume,Volume,Mass,Mass,
DimensionalityDimensionality
TEXTURELia Cook tapestry
Meret Oppenheim sculpture
Vincent Van Gogh painting
Adrian Arleo clay sculpture
Texture, the tactilequality (relating to the sense of touch) of surfaces, may be actual or purely visual.
Caravaggio painting (@1600)
Edward Weston photograph
Paul Klee painting
VALUEthe quality of darkness or lightness
Henri Matisse painting
Hhans Hoffmanans Hoffman painting
CCOOLLOORR
Bruce Nauman neon sculpture
Marco Evaristti dye on ice
Henri Matisse oil painting
Ron Nagle ceramic sculpture
Willie Cole
Jonathan Borofsky
Japanese Netsuke
Rene Magritte painting
Ron Mueck sculpture
Willie Cole sculpture
relating to size, perceived size, relative size/ proportion.
(miniature)
(@ 3 ft.)
SCALE:
Anthony Gormley (toast)
Marilyn Levine (ceramic)
Marc Quinn (frozen blood)
Wolfgang Laib(hazelnut pollen)
MATERIAL
Cai Guo-Qiang(gunpowder on paper)
Tony Oursler video projection on forms
Janine Antoni performance
Liza Lou bead environment
Alexander Calder mobile
TIME…
Kinetic, moving forms; work involving time in its creation (such asperformance); ephemeral works.
THE FORMAL ELEMENTSTHE FORMAL ELEMENTS(abstract and objective)(abstract and objective)
ARE BUILDING BLOCKS OFARE BUILDING BLOCKS OF(subjective)(subjective)
CONTENT
Form and Content
Andy Warhol “Electric Chair” series, silk screen prints
may be thought of as the ideas, meanings or aesthetic
value associated with an artwork.
CONTENTCONTENT
Meaning in an artwork is suggested by --- abstract visual qualities (such as color, shape or value) --- subject matter: what is represented --- symbolism and reference/ allusion --- text within or about the artwork
Abstraction (non-objective or non-realistic imagery) can allow pure form (line, shape, texture, color, etc.) to communicate directly, and in ways that allow for
open-ended interpretation/ appreciation.
Richard Diebenkorn
Martin Puryear
Marcel Duchamp “Fountain” 1917(found urinal) Sherrie Levine “Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp: A.P.)”
1991 (polished bronze)
“Post-modern” art sometimes self-consciously reflects on the history of art, as in this re-make of Duchamp’s famous “Ready-made.”
Ai Wei Wei “Sunflower Seeds” installation http://vimeo.com/52688185
Meaning in an artwork may also derive from cultural or historical references, or from the process of making, itself.