Start date: 10-22-2013.
Form and Artistic Criticism Vocab.
Sculpture – Three-dimensional works of art created out of a multitude of different media, including stone, wood, metal, and clay by carving, welding, casting, modeling, or assembling.
Negative space – The empty or open area around a shape or form. This negative space (sometimes called ground) can affect the interpretation of the positive space.
Positive space – Shapes and forms in two- or three-dimensional art work. The object itself.
Texture – The element of art that refers to how things feel, or look as if they might feel if touched. Texture is perceived by touch and sight. Objects can have rough or smooth textures with matte or shiny surfaces.
Subtractive technique – Cutting or carving away a material to create a work of art.
Additive technique – Modeling or adding material to create a work of art.
Freestanding sculpture – A three-dimensional work of art (commonly supported by the base) and surrounded on all sides by space.
Relief sculpture – Three-dimensional artwork on a wall like surface, where the forms are either carved into the level plane or the objects stick outward from the background.
Alto relief – High relief, where part of the sculpture sticks out a relatively great distance from the background.
Bas relief – Low relief, where the sculpture is raised only slightly from the background surface.
Intaglio relief – Sunken relief, where the image is carved into the surface material making indentations.
Mold – A frame or cavity to form an object, pattern, or visual concept.
Kinetic sculpture – A work of art that actually moves in space.
Design chart – A plan to help arrange or organize your ideas for creating artwork and applying the principles of design with the elements of art.
Art Criticism – An organized approach for studying a work of art. This evaluating process had four stages: description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment.
1.Describe – A list of all the things you see in the artwork.
2. Analysis – In art criticism, the 2nd step where you discover how the principles of design are used to organize the elements of art (line, shape, value, form, color, texture, and space). In art history, the step in which you determine the style of the artwork.
3. Interpret – – In art criticism, the 3rd step where you explain the meaning or mood of the artwork. In art history, the step in which you do research about the artist.
4. Judge – – In art criticism, the last step where you determine the degree of artist merit. In art history, the step in which you determine if the work has made an important contribution to the history of art.