Drawings, Paintings, and Three-Dimensional Art Quiz

Art Processes

• Drawing: moving an instrument over a smooth surface to leave a mark
• Painting: applying colors to surfaces using paint brush, painting knives, or rollers
• Three-dimensional art: has actual and real depth, with height, width, and depth

Sculpture Techniques

• Assembling: constructing a sculpture using different materials
• Modeling: additive process where the artist adds material to build the form
• Carving: subtractive process where parts of the solid mass are removed to create the form
• Casting: manipulative process using soft pliable materials, made into shapes using manual or machine force

Technological Media

• Photography: capturing optical images on light-sensitive cameras
• Computer Arts: graphic designers use computers and applications to create art

Elements of Art

• Dot: the most basic visual element with no dimension
• Line: an identifiable path created by a point moving in space
  • Types of Lines: Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal, Curved, Jagged
  • Vertical line: depict power, strength, stability, simplicity, poise, or stature, and dynamism
  • Horizontal line: associated with rest and repose
  • Diagonal lines: lines of action and movement
  • Curved Lines: considered as “line of grace” and “line of beauty
  • Jagged lines: associated with pointed and sharp objects
• Shape: has two dimensions, height and width, defined by lines
  • Geometric Shape: has mathematical perspective, can be Rectilinear and Curvilinear
  • Organic Shape (biomorphic): free-flowing, informal, and irregular, often seen in nature
• Form: exists in three dimensions with height, width, and depth
• Space: the surface or area within the artwork
• Color: reflected light, organized on a color wheel with 3 primary colors, 3 secondary colors, and 6 intermediate colors
  • Properties of Color: hue, intensity, primary colors, value
  • Hue: name of a color
  • Intensity: brightness or dullness of a hue or colors
  • Value: lightness or darkness of a hue (color)
  • Primary Colors: hues that can be mixed to create all other colors
  • Secondary Colors: combination of equal amount of two primaries
  • Tertiary Color: created by mixing primary and secondary colors
• Movement: adds excitement to the artwork, showing action and directing the viewer's eye

Functions of Arts

• Personal: self-expression or for entertainment
• Social: used for public display and celebration, affects collective behavior
• Physical: utilitarian, useful or functional
• Integrity: faithfulness to one's principles
• Proportion or consonance: balance or consistency of the elements
• Radiance or clarity: has something to do with the meaning or impact upon the observer

Subject of Art

• Anything that is represented in the artwork, can be a person, object, scene, or event
• Representational: artworks that depict something real and part of this world
• Non-representational: artworks that have no resemblance to real subjects or objects or anything from nature

Sources of Artistic Expression

• Nature and the environment
• People and World Events
• Myths and Legends
• Spiritual and Religious Beliefs
• Ideas Commissioned by Employers