HUM1020 - Chapter 5: Art and Architecture 1 & 2

Straight or curved and is used to control our vision and to create unity, emotional value, and ultimately meaning.

Primarily interested in the artwork itself, not apply any external conditions or information when analyzing the particular piece of art and can be applied various types of art.

Meaning by examining related information "outside" the artwork, such as the artist's life, his/her cultural, social, economic, and political conditions, his/her philosophies , public and critical reactions to work.

Craftsmanship & Communication

Heaviness or Weight

Roughness or Smoothness

Wavelength differences of the Color Spectrum

Line

Art with recognizable objects

Art with no recognizable objects

A system of drawing or painting in which the artist attempts to create the illusion of spatial depth on a two-dimensional surface. It works by following consistent geometric rules for rendering objects as they appear to the human eye.

The perception of depth in nature can be enhanced by the appearance of atmospheric haze. It is achieved by using less focus, along with bluer, lighter, and duller hues for the distant spaces and objects depicted in a picture.

Archaic
Classical
Hellenistic

Cleisthenes

That this earthly world can be explained in terms of cause and effect, and that every civilized society was built on the underlying foundation of logic.