Art Media
- Materials used by artist to create artworks
- Can include: pencils, charcoal, paint, clay, stone, and metal
Art Processes
- The action involved in making the art
- Can include: drawing, painting, printmaking modeling, weaving digitizing, and casting
Aesthetics
- Branch of Philosophy
- Dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste
Art Criticism
- The criteria, or standards of judgment you will need when making decisions about art.
- The four steps of art criticism are:
- Description
- Analysis
- Interpretation
- Judgment
2-dimensional Art: Flat art without physical depth
Whenever we look at a flat surface (a picture, a television screen) and assume we are looking at spaces and objects that have depth, we are accepting a set of visual signals that create an illusionof three dimensional space
3-dimensional Art: Art viewed from all sides
3D cues are so common today that we are almost unaware of them. However, these signals were not always used and understood; even today in some preliterate societies, people may have difficulty understanding 3D illusions. Understanding how these illusions work is a key to developing our ability to think spatially. Spatial concepts come into play whether we are trying to find our way through the streets of a strange town, figure out how to wrap cloth around a body to achieve a fashion idea, envision the inner structures of a complex mechanism or body part, or simply do an accurate drawing of what we see.