(Master) Study guide for Art 1 Semester Exam
List the elements of art
List the principals of design
You will be expected to be able to explain how the elements of art and principals of design are used in
specific art work shown. I will show you images of artwork, and you are expected to be able to explain
how they are used in each piece of work.
Illustrate and Explain the rule of thirds.
Relief Sculpture Project
The following can be answered from page pg 10 in your sketch diary and from questions you answered
for homework that are also on page 10…..
Relief Sculpture- raised shapes on a surface
There are three basic forms of relief sculpture:
bas-relief (low-relief)-in which the sculpture is raised only slightly from the background surface; altorelievo (high-relief)- in which part of the sculpture is rendered in three dimensions; and intaglio
(sunken-relief)- in which the image is carved into the surface material.
Relief sculpture has a notable history dating back over 20,000 years in both eastern and western
cultures.
Be able to recognize a relief sculpture example and identify the different forms of relief sculpture.
What kind of relief sculpture did we create?
What medium did we use to create our relief sculptures?
Composition- The manner in which the forms, lines and colors of an artwork are formed
Design- The organization of line, form, color, value, texture and space in an eye pleasing arrangement
Eye Path- is used to draw a viewer’s eye to certain areas of the artwork, to lead the viewer’s eye across
the page.
Focal Point- is the element in an artwork that pulls in the viewer's eye; it is the center of attention or the
main subject
Chiaroscuro- The use of light and shadow to create a focal point or mood
Explain how chiaroscuro was used when we drew our relief sculptures?
You must have a light source to have a shadow
The shadow will be behind the object where the light is hitting it
Know the variation of pencil leads and what they do:
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HB- hardest graphite- lightest line, fine line, more control
6B- softest graphite- darkest line, wider line, less control
Collage Portrait Project:
Porportions of the head- pg 15
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The eye line is ½ way from the top on the
head to the chin
The bottom of the nose is ½ way from the
eye line to the chin
The middle of the lip is ½ way between
the bottom of the nose line and the chin
The head is 5 eyes wide
The width of the nose and the inside edge
of the eye brow is determined by the
inside edge of the eye
The center of the eye down determines
the width of the mouth
The ear length goes from the eye line to
the bottom of the nose line
These are ‘guides’ to help you draw a portrait,
everyone is different and unique
Portraiture: A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person,
in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and
even the mood of the person.
How can you express mood or emotion in portraits? Eyes, posture, body position, hand placement, tilt
of the head, props, costume, color, use of chiaroscuro, use of line, shape, form, pattern, texture,
movement (elements of art and principals of design)
PG 19 color and its meaning
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Blue is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom,
confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
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Red is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as
passion, desire, and love.
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Yellow is associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
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Purple symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and
extravagance, and is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery,
and magic.
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Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination,
attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
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Green symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility.
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White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered
to be the color of perfection.
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Reddish brown is associated with harvest and fall.
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Brown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
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Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
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Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
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Dull/ dingy yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
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Pink signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and
passiveness.
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Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
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Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
PG 25- Chuck Close work sheet
Chuck Close is a contemporary American painter that mainly paints the human head. He has been
painting since the 1960’s. He was strongly influenced by popular culture art known as pop art. Pop art
was making a statement that they felt the media had become so important that images from tv, films
and magazines were as real for many people as their own lives.
His enormous heads show you the facts of what he sees in the portrait. He does not want to give the
viewer any more information than what he sees from a photograph. Unlike traditional portraits, that
depict a social status, or what their life was like, etc, he wants the view to put his own thoughts and
impressions into the work.
He had hardships of a muscular weakness as a child, learning disabilities and the collapse of a spinal
artery that left him paralyzed.
His accomplishments- highest gpa in art school in collage, received a Fulbright scholarship to study
abroad, became a world famous artist
He uses a grid system of squares to enlarge a photo to put onto his 9’ canvas
Be able to recognize Chuck Close’s work and discuss it in terms of elements of art and principals of
design
Portraits used to be created as a record of a person’s appearance, now with the invention of the
camera; they can also depict the inner person.
What is an artist statement?
Briefly explain the process of how we created our collage self portraits:
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Took a photo of ourselves and manipulated it in photoshop
Printed the image
Sketched out our image larger than the photo
Transferred the portrait onto tag board
Color matched pieces of magazine images to fit our photoshopped image
Used words and images to create a collage that defined who you are, to go behind self portrait
Applied a medium overtop portrait and words to seal down the edges of the final project
Attached the portrait to the collage for the final image
Line- The path of a moving point through space
Gesture Drawing: Any drawing that attempts to capture action or movement, typically completed in 2
minutes or less and uses quick rapid strokes and no eraser.
Know what Blind Drawing is.
Contour drawing- is an artistic technique used when the artist sketches the contour of a subject by
drawing lines that result in a drawing that is essentially an outline
What does it mean to do a continual line contour drawing?
Be able to differentiate between a gesture drawing and a contour drawing, visually and in writing.
Different styles of lines have different meanings and emotions qualities
Parallel- Lines that go side by side and stay the same distance apart
Horizontal= Appear At Rest
Vertical= Shows Stability, Dignity, Formality, Strength
Diagonal= Signals Action, Excitement
Zig Zag= Creates Confusion, Feelings of Unease, Suggests Action
Jagged= Strength, Power and Adventure
Smooth Curved= Graceful, Flowing, Relaxed
Erratic Curves= Searching, Moving
Interrupted or Intermittent= Appear Unstable
Thick and Heavy= Bold and Aggressive
Crosshatched= Express Texture and Volume
Broken Lines= Nervousness
Scribble/Overlapping= Energetic and Erratic
OP art- Bridget Riley Facts from worksheet
Op artist question our perception by making the viewer question what they see, is it moving, can I touch
it. They work abstractly by having no reference to the real world.
Bridget Riley wants her painting to remind the viewer of a feeling or memory. She establishes a unit
which is a shape, line or space. She transforms it (tilting, expanding, and contracting) she repeats the
unit and gradually changes it until it reaches the point of highest tension. Then she would end the cycle
by returning it to its original shape.
Be able to recognize op art as a style and discuss it in terms of elements of art and principals of design
Be able to classifly art using the modes of classification and know their meaning.
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Contextualism: The most important part about the work is the focus on the content in which the work was
created or in which it is displayed.
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Imitationalism- The most important aspect of the work is the realistic representation of subject matter.
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Emotionalism- The most important quality of the work is the communication of emotions.
D. Formalism- The most important characteristic of the work is the effective organization of the Elements of Art
and use of the Principles of Design.
Nonobjective art is another way to refer to Abstract art or nonrepresentational art.
Essentially, the artwork does not represent or depict a person, place or thing in the natural
world. Usually, the content of the work is its color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, scale, and, in
some cases, its process.