Chapter 2 – Reading Guide – Part 1 Name______
Art 1010 – Understanding Art, 10th Edition, Lois Fichner-Rathus
Visual Elements of Art
“The language of Art is the language of our visual and tactile experiences in the world, and the words or vocabulary of this language consist of the visual elements of ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, and ______.”
“In this chapter, we explore the basic ______or ______in the language of art.”
Line
“Line is at once the ______and most ______of the elements of art.”
“In art, a line is more commonly defined as a ______.”
“LeWitt’s lines are ______; Pollock’s are ______, ______, and ______.”
“They are well rounded and human, combining ______with ______.”
“______are created by the edges of things.”
“The legs take on the abstract quality of an exercise to demonstrate how ______define the human form and how shading creates or ______roundness.”
“The points in ______are connected and continuous.”
“Works with ______are completed by the viewer.”
Besides defining shape line can also function as ______itself.
“The lines give the woman’s features a gaunt, hollowed-out look and are also used to create a ______in a ______.”
“Part A shows the method of ______, of using a pattern of dots that thickens and thins.”
“Part B shows the technique of ______, or using a series of closely spaced parallel line to achieve a similar effect.”
______-______, shown in Part C, is similar to hatching, but as the name implies, a series of lines run in different directions and across one another.”
“Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus shows how line can be used to ______and evoke ______.” “African American artist Jacob Lawrence used assertive sticklike diagonals to give the slave childrenin his painting Harriet Tubman Series No. 4 a powerful sense of ______and ______.”
Shape, Volume, and Mass
“In works of art, ______are defined as the areas within a composition that have ______that ______them from what surrounds them; ______make these areas distinct.”
“The word ______is often used to speak about ______in sculpture or architecture – three-dimensional works of art.”
“The word ______refers to the ______or ______of a three- dimensional works of art.”
“In three-dimensional art, the ______of an object refers to its ______.”
“The Whiteread Memorial has ______.”
“Objects that are depicted as three-dimensional on a ______-______surface (such as a drawing or a painting) have what we call ______.”
“…- the forms of animals and plant life-are called ______and have a natural appearance.”
“______shapes frequently look ______or ______-______, as in painter Dorothea Rockburne’s Pascal’s Provincial Letters.”
“These are referred to as the ______.”
“Whatever is left over in the composition, whether empty space or space filled with other imagery, is termed the ______or shapes of the composition.”
“______and ______shapes in a work of art have a ______-______.”
“The ______shapes in Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels consist of the huge concrete pipes she placed in the ______.”
“Some ______have entered our consciousness in such a way as to carry with them ______.”
“______is a powerful visual element, and the representation of ______is a powerful design tool.”
Light and Value
What “bounces off objects and excites cells in our eyes, enabling us to see?” ______