1. Describe the difference between balance and imbalanced work? Imbalanced work is often consciously done on purpose, and raises feelings of uneasiness and discomfort. Balanced work, however, often occurs subconsciously and feels much more unified.
2. What is horizontal and vertical placement? Horizontal balance generally refers to the right and left sides of an image. Vertical balance refers to the way an image is split from top to bottom.
3. What is symmetrical balance, and give an art historical example? Symmetrical balance occurs, shapes are repeated in the same positions on a vertical axis. Example: Hiroshi Sugimoto. U.A. Play House. 1978
4. How
can asymmetrical balance be achieved with value/color/ shape and
texture? With asymmetrical balance, balance is gained through use of
dissimilar objects which have equal visual weight.
5. What
is radial balance? Radial balance is when all the elements of a
piece radiate from a central point.
6. Give
a good example of a piece of artwork? Josiah McElheny. An End to
Modernity.
7. What
is a shape and how does it differ from volume and mass? A shape is
an area perceived by either an enclosing line or color/value
changes. It has nothing to do with the size or weight.
8. What
is the difference between naturalism and distortion in art and
design? Naturalism contains reasonable proportion o shapes and
attention to features, and we believe the image. Distortion is made
through stretched and altered shapes, we don't believe the image but
it is recognizable.
Define
abstraction: How is your fire and water panel abstract? What concepts
are informing your work on this project? Abstraction implies
simplifying natural shapes to their basic character. My fire and
water panel is abstract because the images are taken from nature and
photographs, but simplified.
Chapter 8
1. Non-objective
– There is no subject matter, and the shapes make no reference.
2. Curvilinear
– Rounded and curved forms imply flowing shapes.
3. Rectilinear
– The image is composed of straight lines.
4. Positive
and negative shapes – Positive shapes are distinguished from the
background, negative shapes are defined within the ground that is
defined by surrounding figures and boundaries.
Chapter 10
1. List
three ways to depict illusion of depth – Size, overlapping, and
vertical location are all devices used to show illusion of depth.
What
is one point perspective? It is a system of spatial illusion in 2D
art based on the gathering of parallel lines to a vanishing point.2. Two point perspective? It is a scene that is viewed from an angle containing no objects that are parallel to the picture plane.
3. What is an isometric projection? It is the spatial illusion that happens when lines that are receding on the diagonal remain parallel instead of gathering at a vanishing point.
4. What is equivocal space? Equivocal space is an ambiguous space in which it is difficult to distinguish the foreground from the background. Example: Julie Mehretu, Black Ground
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