Group 4 Paintings

Painting is a form of visual art where an artist applies pigments to a surface.
Artists usually use tools like brushes, knives, or sponges.
Paintings use colors, textures, and shapes to create images and convey emotions or express ideas.

Students should be able to identify the elements of painting.
Students should be able to understand the importance of the color wheel.
They should be able to express an understanding of the symbolism and meaning of colors.
Students should demonstrate knowledge about painting mediums and their characteristics.

Line: A continuous mark made on a surface; it varies in width, length, and direction.
Color: Includes hues that evoke emotions and feelings in a painting and can create moods or establish balance in the artwork.
Texture: The surface quality of a painting that can be either actual or implied.
Perspective: Techniques used to represent three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface.
Shapes: Two-dimensional designs, enclosed by lines, that define height and width.
Symbols: Important elements that add depth to the art, acting as visual language and enabling artists to share concepts and emotional responses beyond a literal representation.

Hues that appear to be without color.
These do not compete with primary and secondary colors.
Examples include beige, coffee, tan, white, gray, black, charcoal, navy, light blue, dreamy pink, olive, and chocolate.

Red: Extreme color, representing power, love, passion, adventure, energy, anger, seduction, violence, and danger.
Blue: Symbolic of depth, stability, wisdom, faith, truth, and heaven. Can also signify coldness, uncaring, and sadness.
Yellow: Representing happiness, enlightenment, joy, positivity, clarity. Can also symbolize being critical, judgmental, or cautious.

Oil Paint: Pigment particles suspended in a drying oil (like linseed oil). Slow-drying.
Pastel: Powdered pigment and a binder in various forms such as sticks, squares, pebbles, or pans.
Acrylic: A paint made from a chemical substance used in plastics and fabrics.
Watercolor: Water dispersion of a binding material (glue, casein, or gum or similar).
Ink: Colored fluid used for writing, drawing, printing, or duplicating.
Encaustic: Pigments mixed with hot wax, used in painting and ceramics; heated and burned into inlays.
Fresco: Mural painting technique where paint is directly applied to wet plaster.
Gouache: Opaque pigments, thickened with glue-like substance.
Enamel: Type of oil paint used for exteriors and interiors. (Can also be water-based)
Spray Paint: Paint contained in an aerosol can for spraying onto a surface.
Tempera: Pigment dispersed in an emulsion, usually with egg yolk.

Western Styles
- Abstraction: Art that avoids representation of external reality, focused on shapes, colors, and form.
- Expressionism: Emphasis on emotional experiences over physical reality; using vivid colors and exaggerated forms.
- Baroque: Dramatic lighting, rich colors, intense emotions, grand themes, often relating to religious subjects.
- Impressionism: Focused on capturing light's changing qualities, often with visible brush strokes. Shows everyday subjects.
- Modernism: Movement away from traditional forms, exploring new techniques and highlighting contemporary life.
- Realism: Portrays everyday life with accuracy and detail, often as a response to Romanticism.
Modern Styles
- Realism: Modern movement focusing on depicting everyday life with detail.
- Symbolism: Using symbolic images and metaphors to show ideas and emotions.
- Fauvism: Early 20th-century movement highlighting vibrant non-naturalistic colors, simplified forms, and emphasized emotional expression over realism.
- Cubism: A revolutionary movement using multiple viewpoints to show subjects; fragmenting them into geometric shapes.
- Surrealism: Explores the unconscious mind, showing irrational and dreamlike aspects through expression.