Monday, March 8, 2010

Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List
Value: Is the lightness and Darkness of a colour, showing the difference between light and dark
Art: Is the complete work of an artist that displays, their expression, creativity and imagination on a canvas or their choice. Can be displayed 2d, 3d, portrait, landscape or the following of the artists choice.
Technique: A skill that an artist picks up or posses. It displays how they use that skill applied to their work. Such skills can be splatter, cut outs, sculpture, drawing, painting, stencil etc.
Media: Is a range of equipment, utensils and tools that an artist uses to create their work. Range of media can be paint, brushes, ink, pencil, texters, aerosol paint, air brush, paper etc.
Monochromatic: Is a colour scheme of a single hue which displays the shades and tints on the one hue.

Adjective List:
Colour: bright, dull, heavy, light, monochromatic, analogous, inspiring, distressing, boring, shady, dark, impact, strong.
Line: stright, bent, zig zag, grided, dynamic, align, stoked, rough, clean, crisp, paintily.
Shape: 2d, 3d, abstract, structured, even, bulk, skinny, symbolic, satanic.
Point: stipple, dashed, focal point, repeated, dense, light, align, aim, added up, directed, symbolised.
Textured: pebbles, rough, smooth, prickly, spiky, dense, dangerous, mild, strong, organic, man made,

Elements:
Shape/Form: Shape and form can be; 2d or 3d, dynamic, structure, hollow, full, negative space, positive space.
Texture: Many techniques of texture are; stipple, pointed, dots, rough, smooth, harsh, painterly, cross hatched, lined, shaded, rendered, grass, metallic, glossy.
Colour: Bright, dark, shaded, tinted, opacity, dull, PMS, CMYK, RGB, monochromatic, analogous, inspiring, blinding, distracting, attractive, hideous etc.
Line: Can be; short, long, wavy, zig zag, strong, weak, broken, bent, swirly, rhythmic, dashing, structured, tall etc.

Principles:
Stability: When a placement of objects are position with on a grid in a specific place. Also the elements are positioned with in the canvas.
Dynamic: When a placement of object are position on mainly angles and nothing is really vertical or horizontal. Also the elements are placed going off the canvas to create a dynamic effect.
Rhythm: Rhythm can be created by and element or some kind being continuously repeated creating a movement effect.
Scale: Scale refers to the comparison of the size of the element, big to small. But mainly refers to the proportion of the size such as 1:100 which is 1mm to every 100mm, mainly used in architecture to compare size of building in plans.

Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_elements_and_principles
http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/elements_of_design/
http://www.artincanada.com/arttalk/arttermsanddefinitions.html
http://www.artlex.com/

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