| A | B |
|---|
| Symmetrical balance | work can be divided evenly down the middle |
| asymmetrical balance | one finds elements of different sizes and colors on either side |
| radial symmetry | a work is centered around a specific point |
| golden mean | Greek composition ratio approximately 3:5 |
| Intensity | brightness of color |
| hue | pure, untinted and unshaded color |
| values | shades of black and white |
| neurtrals | black and white |
| complementary colors | those colors opposite each other on the color wheel |
| triad | three primary, secondary colors |
| proximity | objects grouped close together |
| value | levels of black and white |
| aerial or atmospheric perspective | shows effects of light to give you a sense of distance- think Impressionism |
| Organic | freeform shape |
| high relief | high projection |
| bas relief | short projection |
| warm colors | orange, red, yellow |
| cool colors | blue, green, violet |
| analogous colors are | next to each other on the color wheel |
| arbitrary color | used for impact |
| Shoengauer | first known engraver |
| Rembrandt and Durer used | intaglio |
| Senefelder | published first book on lithography |
| John Goffe Rand | invented collabsible tubes of oil paint |
| Senefelder | published the first book on lithography |
| gouache | opague paint more refined than tempera |
| encaustic | Egyptian technique of applying pigments to a surface with hot irons |
| binder | holds pigment together |
| solvent | what the pigment is dissolved in |
| Gutenberg | his printing press increased demand for colored prints |
| hatching | lines used for shading |
| crosshatching | crisscrossed lines used for shading |
| tempera | most widely used paint before the Renaissance |
| transclucent | diluted ink |
| opaque | undiluted ink |
| fresco | application of pigments of plaster |
| fresco secco | uses dry plaster |
| Intaglio | forced ink through grooves using a purnisher |
| non acid techniques | drypoint, engraving, crible, messotint, collagraph |
| Lithography | uses chemical reaction of water and oil with the artist designing in a crayon |
| Screen printing, a technique of forcing ink through screen | Andy Warhol |
| Couching | technique used to attach metallic thread to the Robe |
| Brady | Civil War Photographer |
| Gaspar Felix Nadar | Parisian photographer who photographed the city from a hot air balloon |
| Cameron | photographer for the famous- Darwin and Carlyle |
| Eastman | invented the Kodak camera |
| Talbot | invented calotype and believed photography could be used for art |
| Embraced and tried to copy photo techniques | realists |
| art for art's sake | impressionists |
| Bierstadt, Cole and Church | welcomed photography and used it for studies for his paintings |
