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Monday, October 1, 2012

Homework Chapter 5,8,11: PART 1

Chapter 5/8: Balance/ shape and Volume:

  • Describe the difference between balance and imbalanced work? 
    • Balance typically leaves an observer feel more comfortable, whereas imbalance leads to a sense of unease
  • 2.          What is horizontal and vertical placement?
    •  The positioning of an element in design to create balance or imbalance
  • 3.          What is symmetrical balance, and give an art historical example?
    •  Shapes are repeated in the same positions on either side of a vertical axis. Many tile patterns found in Ottoman architecture contain symmetry in their design.
  • 4.          How can asymmetrical balance be achieved with value/color/ shape and texture?
    •  When creating an imbalance of color and value, black against white, a smaller dark object has the same balance as a larger and lighter element. A small textured figure can balance a larger and untextured shape.
  • 5.          What is radial balance?
    •  When all elements of a design radiate or circle out from a common central point.
  • 6.          Give a good example of a piece of artwork?
    •  Circle Limit IV, Heaven and Hell- Mc Escher 
  • 7.          What is a shape and how does it differ from volume and mass?
    •  A shape is an enclosed space. The same shape can encompass many different mass and volumes, wheras those two principles remain constant
  • 8.          What is the difference between naturalism and distortion in art and design?
    •  Naturalism depicts the subject as it would appear to the naked eye. Distortion provides a view of the subject that is not present in nature.
  • Define abstraction: How is your fire and water panel abstract? What concepts are informing your work on this project?
    •  My fire and water panel is abstract because it is representing the theme in a form that is not too literal. I am trying to depict a concept of sensation and tranformation. 

Chapter 8: Shape and volume: 



           Define these terms in art:
  • 1.       Non-objective
    •  art that is not representational
  • 2.          Curvilinear
    •  art that is represented by a curved line
  • 3.          Rectilinear
    •  art formed by straight lines
  • 4.          Positive and negative shapes
    •  Positive space is the subjective shapes in a design, the negative shapes are what appear around the elements of the design


Chapter 10:
  • 1.          List three ways to depict illusion of depth
    •  Size, Overlapping, Vertical Location
  • 2.          What is one point perspective?
    •  When a single point is placed on the horizon line and all the lines at right angles to the plain of the canvas converge toward that point
  • 3.          Two point perspective?
    •  all edges recede to two points on the horizon line
  • 4.          What is an isometric projection?
    •  three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angles between any two of them are 120 degrees
  • 5.          What is equivocal space? Find an example

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