The document provides definitions and descriptions of various art terms and concepts including gradational, delineated edges, color scheme, cropped, distorted, geometric shapes, composition, highlights, foreground, and background. It also includes images and information about specific artworks to illustrate these terms.
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Studio Arts vocab
1. Gradational:
a smooth transition between black and
white, one colour and another, or colour and
the lack of it.
Brassaï
Staircase, Montmartre, Paris
1935-36
gelatin-silver print
2. delineated edges:
object or image
with the outlines shown
Man Ray
Fingers
1930
gelatin-silver print
11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.
3. colour scheme:
The colours an artist uses and the
way they are combined in an
artwork
Piet Mondrian
Composition A
1920
oil on canvas
36 x 36 1/4 in.
4. Kurt Kranz
Eye Series
Crop/cropping/cropped : To trim one or more
1930-31 of a picture’s edges, or to place one or more of
16 Gelatin-silver prints mounted on board the edges of an image so that only part of a
13 7/8 x 19 3/4 in. overall subject can be seen within the image.
5. The use of text...
Text can be used explicitly
or conceptually to enhance
your image, or give it
another dimension or
message
Barbara Kruger
Untitled
1981
6. André Kertész
Distortion No. 40 Distorted /contorted: twist and manipulate out of shape
1933
gelatin-silver print
7. geometric shapes
describing shapes
and forms such
as squares,
circles, cubes,
and spheres.
Ellsworth Kelly
Red Blue Green
1963
oil on canvas
83 5/8 x 135 7/8 in.
8. Carefully arranged composition
Composition : The plan,
placement or arrangement of
the elements of art in a work,
usually according to the
principles of design.
Piet Mondrian
Broadway Boogie Woogie
1943
oil on canvas
50 x 50 in.
9. Hue : The name of any
colour as found in its pure
state in the spectrum, or
that aspect of any colour.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Hollywood Africans
1983
synthetic polymer and mixed media on canvas
84 x 84 in.
10. There is a sense of
balance in the image,
created by…
James Rosenquist
I Love You with My Ford
1961
oil on canvas
6 ft. 10 3/4 in. x 7 ft. 9 1/2 in.
11. flat blocks of colour
Roy Lichtenstein
Whaam!
1963
oil and magna on canvas
5 ft. 8 in. x 13 ft. 4 in.
12. Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty (Great Salt Lake, Utah)
carefully arranged
1970
black basalt and limestone rocks and earth
1,500 ft.
13. alludes to: To refer to
something indirectly or by
suggestion
Roy Lichtenstein
Little Big Painting
1965
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
68 x 80 in.
14. Construction : A term
referring to a sculpture made
by joining together various
components of various
materials or of the same
substance.
El Lissitsky
Prouenraum (Proun Room)
1923
wood, metal, paint
15. Vivid:
Intensity of colour; having the
highest saturation; "vivid green";
"intense blue"
Laurie Simmons
Pink Bathroom
1984
Cibachrome print
20 x 16 in.
16. Elongated: extensive in length; stretched
Alberto Giacometti
Man Pointing
1947
bronze
70 1/2 in. high
17. Tactile: A texture you can feel with your hands
Alberto Giacometti
Figure from Venice II
1956
painted bronze
47 1/2 in. high
18. Monumentality: an artwork or object which is
larger than life, an exaggerated form ...
this can give everyday objects a status
they do not enjoy in reality
Claes Oldenburg
Clothes Pin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1976
Cor-ten steel
45 ft. x 12 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in.
19. Collaboration : Two or more artists working
together in a joint effort to produce an artwork
or artworks.
Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise
Exquisite Corpse
1928
ink on paper
20. The artist has … to imbue the image with...
Francis Bacon
Study After Valasquez’s Portrait
of Pope Innocent X
1953
oil on canvas
29. delineated edges:
object or image
with the outlines shown
Roy Lichtenstein
Hopeless
1963
oil on canvas
3 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 8 in.
30. sequence:
arrangement in which
things follow in logical
order or a recurrent pattern
Eadweard Muybridge
Walking and Throwing a Handkerchief
1884-85
gelatin-silver print
31. Non-objective Art / Non- representational Art :
Art works having no recognisable subject matter
such as houses, trees or people.
Kenneth Noland
Magus
1967
acrylic on canvas
225 x 686 cm
33. Organic / organic
shapes - A word
describing shapes and
forms similar to those
in nature and the
opposite of geometric.
Yves Klein
Anthropometry
1960
34. Deep shadows
Giorgio De Chirico
The Melancholy and Mystery
of a Street
1914
oil on canvas
34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.
35. Exaggerated form
Form : Form refers
to an element of
art that is three-
dimensional
(height, width and
depth) and
encloses volume.
Claes Oldenburg
Floor Cake
1962
synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with
foam rubber and cardboard boxes
58 3/8 in. x 9 ft. 6 1/4 in. x 58 3/8 in.
37. A palette of… is employed to…
David Hockney
Ian Washing His Hair
1983
collage of chromogenic-development
prints
30 x 33 in.
38. Mark Tansey Monochrome/Monochromatic : A painting,
A Short History of Modernist Painting drawing or print in one colour, including that
colour’s shades and tints.
1982
oil on canvas
three panels, each 4 ft. 10 in. x 3 ft. 4 in.
39. Carl Andre Earth Art / Documentation / Environmental sculpture
Stone Field Sculpture
1977
thirty-six glacial boulders
Hartford, Connecticut
41. unsettling: puts the viewer
in an uncomfortable space
Francis Bacon
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
c. 1944
oil and pastel on hardboard
each panel 145 x 128 cm.
42. Highlights – Areas of direct
light (or implied light) on an
object.
Francis Bacon
Study from the Human Body
1949
oil on canvas
57 7/8 x 51 1/2 in.
43. Asymmetry/ Asymmetrical :
The parts of an image organised
so that one side differs from the
other without destroying the
overall harmony in the
composition.
Balthus
Therese
1938
oil on canvas
45. Background : The part of a picture or scene
that appears to be farthest away from the
viewer, usually nearest the horizon.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Rue Mouffetard, Paris
1954
gelatin-silver print
46. The use of repetition produces the effect of...
Richard Prince
Untitled
(Three Women Looking in the Same
Direction)
1980
3 Ektacolor prints
40 x 60 in. each
47. Warm colours- The family of
colours that includes reds,
yellows, and oranges.
Karel Appel
Exploded Head
1958
oil on canvas
48. Foreground : The area of a
picture or field of vision, often
at the bottom, that appears to
be closest to the viewer.
Robert Doisneau
From the series
The Sideway Glance
1949
gelatin-silver print
50. A theme that emerges...
Richard Hamilton
Just what is it that makes today’s
homes so different, so appealing?
1956
collage on paper
10 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.
51. Balthus
The Mountain
Figurative : Describes artwork representing the
1937
oil on canvas form of a human, an animal or a thing.
98 x 144 in.
52. The low vantage point...
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #35
1979
gelatin-silver print
10 x 8 in.
54. Words to include
• Luminous
• Linear Perspective : A system of drawing or
painting in which the artist attempts to create
the illusion of depth on a flat surface.
98. Claes Oldenburg
Giant Soft Fan
1966-67
construction of vinyl filled with foam rubber, wood,
metal, and plastic tubing
10 ft. x 58 7/8 in. x 61 7/8 in.
99. Claes Oldenburg
Lipstick (Ascending)
on Caterpillar Tracks
Yale University, Beinecke Plaza
New Haven, Connecticut
1969
Cor-ten steel, aluminum,
cast resin, polyurethane enamel
23 ft. 6 in. x 24 ft. 11 in. x 10 ft. 11 in.
100. Claes Oldenburg and
Coosje van Bruggen
Spoonbridge and Cherry
Minneapolis, Minnesota
1985-88
Aluminum, stainless steel and paint
29 ft. 6 in. x 51 ft. 6 in. x 13 ft. 6 in.
101. Claes Oldenburg and
Coosje van Bruggen
Spoonbridge and Cherry
Minneapolis, Minnesota
1985-88
Aluminum, stainless steel and paint
29 ft. 6 in. x 51 ft. 6 in. x 13 ft. 6 in.
124. Douglas Huebler
Site Sculpture Project—
Air Marker Piece, The Contrails from Three Jet Airplanes (Flying Simultaneously) Will Mark the Space
between Vancouver, B.C. and St. Johns, Newfoundland, Portland Ore., and Halifax, N.S., Eureka, Calif., and
New York City. (All Planes Will Leave at the Same Time from the West Coast)
1968
felt tip pen and colored pencil on photocopy on paper
8 1/2 x 11 in.
125. Lawrence Weiner
A 36” x 36” removal of the lathing or support wall of plaster
or wallboard from a wall
1969
130. Robert Barry
Inert Gas Series (Krypton)
March 5, 1969
3 color photographs and typewritten text
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. overall
131. Joseph Kosuth
One and Three Chairs
1965
folding chair, photograph of chair and photostat of the definition of a chair
132. Joseph Kosuth
One and Three Hammers
1965
hammer, photograph of hammer and photostat of the definition of a hammer
24 x 53 3/8 in. overall
133. Joseph Kosuth
Art as Idea as Idea (water)
1967
photostat on paper mounted on wood
47 x 47 in.
134. Vito Acconci
Step Piece
1970
5 black and white photographs type on 4 sheets of bond paper, mounted on paperboard
with felt-tip annotations
30 x 40 in.
143. Walter De Maria
Lightening Field (Quemado, New Mexico)
1977
stainless steel poles
overall 5,280 x 3,300 ft.
144. Walter De Maria
Lightening Field (Quemado, New Mexico)
1977
stainless steel poles
overall 5,280 x 3,300 ft.
145. Christo and
Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
Central Park, New York, New York
2004
pencil, charcoal, pastel, way crayon, fabric sample, aerial photograph, tape
and hand-drawn technical data
In two parts: 15x96 in. and 42x96 in.
146. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
Central Park, New York, New York
1979-2005 (on view February 12-28, 2005)
steel, aluminum, vinyl, nylon
147. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
Central Park, New York, New York
1979-2005 (on view February 12-28, 2005)
steel, aluminum, vinyl, nylon
148. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
Central Park, New York, New York
1979-2005 (on view February 12-28, 2005)
steel, aluminum, vinyl, nylon
149. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
Central Park, New York, New York
1979-2005 (on view February 12-28, 2005)
steel, aluminum, vinyl, nylon
150. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
Central Park, New York, New York
1979-2005 (on view February 12-28, 2005)
steel, aluminum, vinyl, nylon
151. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates
Central Park, New York, New York
1979-2005 (on view February 12-28, 2005)
steel, aluminum, vinyl, nylon
205. André Breton
Performing Far-Sighted Manifesto
Translation of sign: “In order for you to like
something it is necessary for you to have seen and
understood it a long time ago, you bunch of idiots.”
1920
240. Anselm Kiefer
Nigredo
1984
oil paint on photosensitized fabric, acrylic emulsion, straw, shellac, relief paint on paper pulled from
painted wood
11 x 18 ft.
241.
242. David Wojnarowicz
“When I Put My Hands on Your Body”
1990
gelatin-silver print and silkscreened text in museum board
2 ft. 2 in. x 3 ft. 2 in.
250. Duane Hanson
Supermarket Shopper
1970
polyester resin and fiberglass
polychromed in oil with clothing,
steel cart and groceries
approximately life-sized