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All About Art Terminologies
1. Abstraction
Aesthetic
Avant Garde
Aesthetics is considered a synonym for the philosophy of art
since Hegel, while others insist that there is a significant
distinction between these closely related fields. In practice
aesthetic judgement refers to the sensory contemplation or
appreciation of an object (not necessarily an art object), while
artistic judgement refers to the recognition, appreciation or
criticism of art or an art work.
Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal
depiction of things from the visible worldit can, however, refer
to an object or image which has been distilled from the real
world, or INDEED, another work of art. ARTWORK that
reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called
abstract; that which derives from, but does not imitate a
recognizable subject is called nonobjective abstraction. In the
20th century the trend toward abstraction coincided with
advances in SCIENCE, technology, and changes in urban life,
eventually reflecting an interest in psychoanalytic theory
The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as
the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The
avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of
modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists
have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and
still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada through the
Situationists to postmodern artists such as the Language poets
around 1981.
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2. Centre Of Interest
Classical
Composition
A center of interest is that part of the picture which attracts
the mind. A focal point is that area of a picture that attracts
the eye. The center of interest acts as an “attention getter.” It
commands the viewer’s curiosity or mental concentration,
and it’s the part of the picture that we find naturally
fascinating and want to know MORE about. Examples of
centers of interest are eyes and faces, the human figure,
animals, letters, numbers and symbols, and man-made
objects. When we scan an image for the first time, our
attention is naturally drawn to these items.
In the visual arts—in particular painting, graphic design,
photography, and sculpture—composition is the placement or
arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of
ART, as distinct from the subject of a work. It can also be
thought of as the organization of the elements of art
according to the principles of art. The term composition
means 'putting together,' and can apply to any work of art,
from music to writing to PHOTOGRAPHY, that is arranged or
put together using conscious thought.
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a
classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as
setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to
emulate. The ART of classicism typically seeks to be formal
and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed,
"if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply
objecting to the classicism of classic art.
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3. Contrast
Cubism
Expressionism
Contrast is the difference in luminance and/or color that
makes an object (or its representation in an image or display)
distinguishable. In visual perception of the real world, contrast
is determined by the difference in the color and brightness of
the object and other objects within the same field of view.
Because the human visual system is MORE sensitive to
contrast than absolute luminance, we can perceive the world
similarly regardless of the huge changes in illumination over
the day or from place to place. The maximum contrast of an
image is the contrast ratio or dynamic range.
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, joined by
Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le
Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris[1] that
revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired
related movements in music, literature and architecture.
Cubism has been considered the most influential ART
movement of the 20th century.
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry
and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the
20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely
from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for
emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Expressionist artists sought to express meaningor emotional
experience rather than physical reality.
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4. Fauvism
Kinetic
Low Relief
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Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild
beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern
artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and
strong color over the representational or realistic values
retained by Impressionism. While FAUVISM as a style began
around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as
such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three
exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse
and André Derain.
Kinetic art is ART from any medium that contains movement
perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its
effect. Canvas paintings that extend the viewer's perspective
of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement
are the earliest examples of kinetic art. More pertinently
speaking, kinetic art is a term that today most often refers to
three-dimensional sculptures and figures such as mobiles
that move naturally or are machine operated. The moving
parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the
observer.
A bas-relief ("low relief", French pronunciation: [baʁəljɛf],
from the Italian basso rilievo) or low relief is a projecting
image with a shallow overall depth, for example used on
COINS, on which all images are in low relief. In the lowest
reliefs the relative depth of the elements shown is
completely distorted, and if seen from the side the image
makes no sense, but from the front the small variations in
depth register as a three-dimensional image. Other versions
distort depth much less.
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Minimalism in visual art, generally referred to as "minimal
art", literalist artand ABC Artemerged in New York in the
early 1960s as new and older artists moved toward geometric
abstraction; exploring via painting in the cases of Frank Stella,
Kenneth Noland, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman and
others; and sculpture in the works of various artists including
David Smith, Anthony Caro, Tony Smith, Sol LeWitt, Carl
Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and others.
Monochromedescribes paintings, drawings, design, or
photographs in one color or shades of one color. A
monochromatic object or image has COLORS in shades of
limited colors or hues.[clarification needed] Images using
only shades of grey (with or without black and/or white) are
called grayscale or black-and-white. However, scientifically
speaking, monochromatic light refers to visible light of a
narrow band of wavelengths
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making
of which MORE than one medium has been employed.
There is an important distinction between "mixed-media"
artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to
a work of VISUAL ART that combines various traditionally
distinct visual ART MEDIA. For example, a work on canvas
that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called
a "mixed media" work, but not a work of "MULTIMEDIA ART.
Minimal Art
Monochromatic
Mixed Media
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An art movement is a tendency or style in ART with a specific
common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists
during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months,
years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the
movement defined within a number of years. Art movements
were especially important in modern art, when each
consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-
garde.
In ART, a motif About this sound (pronunciation) (help·info) is
an element of a pattern, image or part of one, or theme. A
motif may be repeated in a design or composition, often
many times, or may just occur once in a work. A motif may be
an element in the iconography of a particular subject or type
of subject that is seen in other works.Ornamental or
decorative art can usually be analysed into a number of
different elements, which can be called motifs. These may
often, as in textile art, be repeated many times in a PATTERN.
dart] and various types of scrollwork.
Montage is a combination of images taken from any number
of media (photographs, film, and handmade). These images
can be whole or partial, glued together on a surface (such as
a photomontage), or edited together to produce a video or
film. Think of those film clips edited together that the annual
Academy Awards (a.k.a. the Oscars) ceremony loves to show
in order to stir up our emotions - especially the images of
those who passed away over that past year.
Tracey Moffatt (b. 1960 in Brisbane, Australia) has turned the
Oscar editing aesthetic into an art. Her film montages knit
together snippets from television and film in order to create a
sense of commentary on universal issues: love, motherhood
and, most recently, art.
Montage
Movement
Motif
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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.
A palette /ˈpælɨt/, in the original sense of the word, is a rigid,
flat surface on which a painter arranges and mixes paints. A
palette is usually made of wood, plastic, ceramic, or other
hard, inert, nonporous material, and can vary greatly in size
and shape. The most commonly known type of painter's
palette is made of a thin WOOD board designed to be held in
the artist's hand and rest on the artist's arm. Watercolor
palettes are generally made of plastic or porcelain with
rectangular or wheel format with built in wells and mixing
areas for colors.
Op art, also known as optical art, is a styleof visual art that
makes use of optical illusions.OPTICAL ILLUSION is used by
painters to fool your own eyes "Optical ART is a method of
painting concerning the interaction between illusion and
picture plane, between understanding and seeing. Op art
works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces
made in black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the
impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing
and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or
warping.
Palette
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Optical Art
Non Objective
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Postimpressionism) is the term coined by the British artist
and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development
of French ART since Manet. Fry used the term when he
organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-
Impressionists. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism
while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid
colours, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject
matter, but they were MORE inclined to emphasize
geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to
use unnatural or arbitrary colour.
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in
Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.[1] Pop art
presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including
imagery from popular culture such as ADVERTISING, news,
etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from
its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated
material.
Polychrome is the "'practice of decorating architectural
elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is
used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery or
sculpture in multiple colors.
Pop Art
Polychrome
Post Impression
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Superrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling
a high-resolution photograph. HYPERREALISM is considered
an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to
create the resulting paintings or sculptures. The term is
primarily applied to an independent ART movement and art
style in the United States and Europe that has developed
since the early 2000s.
Rhythm is a principle of ART that's difficult to summarize in
words. Assuming that you've picked up on a rhythm in music
before, take what you heard with your ears and try to
translate that to something you'd see with your eyes.
Rhythm, in art, is a visual beat.A pattern has rhythm, but not
all rhythm is patterned. For example, the colors of a piece can
convey rhythm, by making your eyes TRAVEL from one
component to another. Lines can produce rhythm by implying
movement. Forms, too, can cause rhythm by the ways in
which they're placed one next to the other.
Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the attempt to represent
subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding
artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural
elements.
Realism has been prevalent in the arts at many periods, and
is in large part a matter of technique and training, and the
avoidance of STYLIZATION. In the visual arts, illusionistic
realism is the accurate depiction of lifeforms, perspective,
and the details of light and colour.Realism
Rhythm
Superrealism
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A principle of ART, unity occurs when all of the elements of a
piece combine to make a balanced, harmonious, complete
whole. Unity is another of those hard-to-describe art terms
but, when it's present, your eye and brain are pleased to see
it.
Architects have long employed overall symmetry as a method
of telling the viewer that a building is intended to convey an
important idea, that the building is a physical expression of
an important belief and ideals of the people who
commissioned it. Symmetry endows a formal quality that
distinguishes itself from the asymmetrical forms that are
more casual. Such a building with an expressive intention is
therefore, by definition, monumental, as it seeks to
memorialize an idea.
Unity
Symmetry