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Visual Arts

REBECCA WELLS: HER OWN STUDY GUIDE

Question	Answer
Rap Elements awesome	Tempo, beat, rythm, harmony, texture
Humanities	Visual arts, architecture, mucis, theatre,dance,literature,film
Questions to ask about art	What is it? How it is put together?How does it appeal to the senses?What does it mean?
Humanities	includes arts
Creativity	the act of bringing forth new forces and forms
Concerns of Art	Creativity, aesthectic communication,symbols and fine arts and crafts
The Purpose of Art	Provides a record
The purpose of art	gives visible or other form to feeling
The purpose of art	reveals metaphysical or spiritual truths
The purpose of art	helps poeple see the workd in new or innovative ways
The functions of art	enjoyment
the functions of art	political and social commentary
the functions of art	therapy
the dunctions of art	artifact
Stylistic analyst	curvilinear "line", pallete, brush strokes
Theatre	A place for seeing; interpertive discipline
Theatre	Represents an attempt to reveal a cision of human life through time , sound and space
Genres of Theatre	Tragedy,comedy,tragicomedy,melodrama
Tragedy	unhappy ending
tragicomedy	tragedy and comedy
melodrama	stereotyped characters implausible plots and emphasis on spectacle
Performance Art	includes audience non-theatre artist and a non theatre encironment
Elements of Theatre	Script,plot,exposition, complication, denouement, character, the protagonist, themes
Script	contains dialogue used by actors
plot	structure of play gives play shape
Exposition	provides necessary background information
Complication	contains meat of play it also comprises a series of conflicts and decisions
Denouement	final resolution of the plot and end to the action a clear and ordered resolution
Exposition, complication and denouement	comprise a time frame in which the remaining parts of the play operate
Character	persons in the play
The Protagonist	central personage; leading actor or major character
Themes	main idea of play; content of it
Visual Elements	Theatre types, scene design,lighting design
Visual elements	physical relationship between the actors and the audience
Theatre Types	Where audience is sitting;how it is set up
Scene design	to create and environment that is conducive to the production ends
lighting design	sets the light over the entire production, stage,actor
Aural Elements	How a production sounds looks, feels and reads
Dynamics	structural pattern of play
the actor	through movements and speech, the audience perceives the play
Vocal forms of music	Art song, cantata,mass,motet,opera,oratorio,concert overture,
Art song	setting of poem to music
Cantata	choral work with one or more soloists and an instrumental ensemble has several movements
Mass	sacred choral composition
Motet	a polyphonic choral work shorter then a mass employs a sacred latin text other then that of a mass
Opera	drama set to music
oratorio	large scales composition uses a chorus vocal soloists and orchestra
Concert overture	one movement performed in sonata form
Instrumental forms of music	concerto sonata suite fugues symphony
Concerto	an extended compostion for an instrumental soloists and orchestra
Sonata	an instrumental compostion in several movements written for one to eight players
suite	set of dance inspired movements written in the same key but differing in tempo, meter and character
Symphony	an orchestral composition usuall in four movements
Fugue	a polyphonic composition based on one main theme or subject written for a group of instruments or voices or for a single instrument
Elements of Music	sound,rythm,melody harmony tonality texture form
Sound	anything that excites the auditory nerve
Rythm	recurring pulses and accents that creat identifiable patterns
Beat	individual pulses
Meter	regular succession of rythmical impulses or beats
Tempo	rate of speed of the composition
Melody	a succession of sounds with rythmic tonal organization
Harmony	two or more tones sound at the same time
tonality	the specific key in which a composition is written
texture	the melodic and harmonic characteristics of a compostion
form	essence of something, shape, structure
Monophony	a texture comprising a single melodic line
Homophony	a texture characterized by chordal development supporting one melody
polyphony	many sounding;occurs when two or more melodic lines are performed at the same time
Medium	used by artists to execute their work
Drawing	two dimensional art
Dry Media-Drawing	chalk,charcoal,graphite,pastel
Wet Media-Drawing	pen and ink, wash and brush
Chalk	fairly flexible;creates a wide variety of tonal areas, heavy or light pressure
Charcoal	a burnt wood product
Graphite	a form of carbon like coal
pastel	chalk medium,colored pigment and a non greasy binder have been combined
pen and ink	a wet drawing medium
wash and brush	similar to watercolor in painting
Painting Medias	oil,watercolor,gouache, tempera,acrylics,fresco
oils	dry slowly and can be reworked for texture manipulation, durable
watercolor	any color medium that uses water as a thinner
gouache	watercolor medium add gum to ground opaque colors mixed with water
tempera	an opaque watercolor medium that spans history. Comprises ground pigments and their color binders such as gum or glue, best known for egg tempera. Appears almost gemlike. Fast drying.
Acrylics	modern synthetic product water soluable uses acrylic polymer as binding agent
Fresco	wall painting technique uses pgiments suspended in water and applied to fresh wet plaster
Relief printing	process by which the ink is transferred to the paper from raised areas on a printing block
Intalgio	opposite of relief printing transfers ink to the paper from grooves cut into the metal plate
Line engraving	cutting grooves into the metal plate with special sharp tools
etchings	removes surface of plate by exposing it to an acid bath
drypoint	scratching the surface of a plate with a needle
aquatint	areas of solid tones as well as gradations of tone from white through grays and blacks
planographic process	prints from plane surface
litography	stone writing
Focal point	greatest visual appeal
Pitch	quality of sounds, highness or lowness governed by vibrations per second
Value	relationships between black and white
Duration	length of time vibration maintained without interuption
Baroque	late 16th - early 18th century
Post-impressionism	late 19th century
Abstract Expressionism	mid 20th century
High Renaissance	late 15th - early 16th century
Archaic	mid 5th B.C.E.
Gothic	late 18th - early 19th century
Classicism	Ancient Greece & Rome
Serialism	mid 20th century
Romanticism	late 18th - 19th centuries
Impressionism	mid - late 19th century
Greek Classicism	Ancient Greece and Rome
Realism	mid 19th century
Neoclassicism	20th century
Neorealism	Post-World War II
Symbolism	late 19th - mid 20th century
Classical	mid 5th century B.C.E.
Modernism	20th century
Gothic	late 18th - early 19th century
Baroque	GioVanni Vanni
Post-Impressionism	Van Gogh
Abstract Expressionism	Jackson Pollock
High Renaissance	Micheangelo
Gothic	Chartres Cathedral Jamb
Classicism	Mozart
Baroque (music)	Bach
Serialism	Schoenberg
Romanticism	Chopin
Imprssionism	Debussy
Greek Classicism	Sophocles
Realism	August Wilson
Neoclassicism	Jean Racine
Neorealism	Rosellini
Symbolism	Kurosawa
Baroque (architecture)	Villa Lante
Classical (architecture)	The Parthenon
Modernism	Frank Lloyd Wright
Gothic (architecture)	Chartres Cathedral

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