Drawings, Paintings, and Three-Dimensional Art Quiz

Study Notes

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

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

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

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

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