ART TYPE OF ART • Mural • Sculptures • Marvel • Portrait • Calligraphy HOW TO DESCRIBE ART • Overall impression Verbs • Aesthetic • • • • • Vivid • Elegant • Restrained To depict To evoke Be characterized by Gothic architecture is characterized by its tall walls • Brushstroke • Board brushstroke • Fine brushstroke TOOLS TO PAINT SCHOOL OF ART • Cubism • Pablo Picasso • developed a visual language whose geometric planes challenged the conventions of representation in arts, by reinventing traditional subjects such as nudes, landscapes, and still lifes as increasingly fragmented compositions. BAROQUE • Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. • Baroque painting is characterized by great drama, rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows. • tenebrism: A style of painting using very pronounced light contrast, with darkness a dominating feature of the image • fresco: In painting, the technique of applying waterbased pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. SURREALISM • Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement which was active through World War II. The main goal of Surrealism painting and Surrealism artworks was to liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism by illustrating the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary. DESCRIBE THIS ART • Painter: Van Gogh • Foreground, middle ground, background • What does it depict? • How is the color? • What feeling does it evoke ? • Do you like art ? • What is your favorite painting and why you like it? • Do you think talent is nurture or nature?
