October
Vocabulary
Quiz: Friday, October 7th, 2016
Aesthetic Experience: The experience of seeing and enjoying something for its own sake, or for its beauty and pleasurable qualities.
Description: A listing of the facts in an artwork, such as objects, people, shapes, and colors.
Analysis: The examination of the relationships among the facts (objects, people, shapes, colors) in an artwork.
Interpretation: An explanation of the meaning of an artwork.
Evaluation: A process used to determine the quality or lasting importance of a work.
Quiz: Friday, October 21st, 2016
Hue: The property of color that distinguishes one gradation from another and gives it its name.
Color Scheme (Harmony): the choice of colors used in design.
Monochromatic: One color that is modified by changing the value and saturation of the hue by additions of black and white.
Warm Colors: Those colors in which yellows and reds are dominant.
Cool Colors: Those colors in which greens and blues are dominant.
Quiz: Friday, November 4th, 2016
Analogous Color Scheme: groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
Complementary Color Scheme: colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
Split-Complementary Color Scheme: a variation of the complementary color scheme which uses the two analogous colors adjacent to a color whose complement is the third color of this color scheme (don't worry, we'll talk about this one in more detail).
Triadic Color Scheme: three colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
Tetradic Color Scheme: uses four colors arranged into two complementary color pairs.
Quiz: Friday, October 7th, 2016
Aesthetic Experience: The experience of seeing and enjoying something for its own sake, or for its beauty and pleasurable qualities.
Description: A listing of the facts in an artwork, such as objects, people, shapes, and colors.
Analysis: The examination of the relationships among the facts (objects, people, shapes, colors) in an artwork.
Interpretation: An explanation of the meaning of an artwork.
Evaluation: A process used to determine the quality or lasting importance of a work.
Quiz: Friday, October 21st, 2016
Hue: The property of color that distinguishes one gradation from another and gives it its name.
Color Scheme (Harmony): the choice of colors used in design.
Monochromatic: One color that is modified by changing the value and saturation of the hue by additions of black and white.
Warm Colors: Those colors in which yellows and reds are dominant.
Cool Colors: Those colors in which greens and blues are dominant.
Quiz: Friday, November 4th, 2016
Analogous Color Scheme: groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
Complementary Color Scheme: colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
Split-Complementary Color Scheme: a variation of the complementary color scheme which uses the two analogous colors adjacent to a color whose complement is the third color of this color scheme (don't worry, we'll talk about this one in more detail).
Triadic Color Scheme: three colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
Tetradic Color Scheme: uses four colors arranged into two complementary color pairs.