Thursday, April 4, 2013

Vocab


Vocab

Art Elements:

Line, Shape, Color, Value, Texture and Volume/ Form

Line: a dot that moves defines space, contours and outlines, or suggests mass and volume. Straight, curved, vertical, horizontal, jagged, dotted.

Shape:  An enclosed space defined by other art elements such as line, color and texture. May be geometric or organic

Color: Has 3 properties: hue, value, intensity –

Value: Refers to the light and dark areas of an art work

Texture: The surface quality of an artwork usually perceived through the sense of touch.

Volume/Form: Appears 3-dimensional and encloses volume such as a cube, sphere, pyramid or cylinder.

Design Principles:

Balance, Harmony, Contrast, Movement and Rythm

Balance: A state of equalibrium of the visual forces in a composition.

Rhythm:  Continuity, recurrence or organized movement in space & time.

Harmony: The pleasing agreement of parts or combination of parts in a composition.

Contrast: Deliberate placement of elements to create opposition by abrupt transition rather than gradual.

Movement:   The path the viewer’s eye takes through the artwork, often to a focal area. It can be directed along lines, edges, shapes and color. Movement is closely tied to rhythm.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Final Vocab

Macro-  very large in scale, scope, or capability
ISO: an archive file (also known as a disk image) of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system
Metadata- descriptive statistical information about the elements of a set of data
Shutter Speed: the effective length of time a camera's shutter is open
Triptych: work of art in 3 pieces: a painting or carving consisting of three panels, often made as an altarpiece hinged together so that, when the smaller outer panels are folded, the middle part is entirely covered
DPI: dots per inch, pixels per inch
PPI: Pixels per inch.
Depth of Field- the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.