Welcome to Visual Art Foundations The “gateway” art class
What is Art?
Composition “Putting Together” The placement and arrangement of things in an interesting manner.
Principles of Design Balance Movement Rhythm Contrast Unity Pattern Emphasis
Van Gogh
Alexander Calder Alexander Calder died on November 11, Two months after his death, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the United States’ highest civilian honor.
Realistic or Abstract? Kandinsky
PEACEFUL SADDNESS COLD DEEP
CUBISM A new way of seeing
Geometric or Organic shapes?
Artists have drawn, painted and sculpted the the image of the human figure for over 2000 years!!
Expressive Lines
Art Synectics Bringing different things into real connection
To write or draw with light
An Exploration into 3-D Art Sculpture Poster Board Foam Plaster Wire Paper Mache Ceramics
Sculpture Vocabulary Shape Form Balance Symmetrical Asymmetrical Negative Space Scale Color Movement Alexander Calder Trepied, 1972
How to CRITIQUE John Singleleton Copley Paul Revere, c Oil on canvas 35 x 28 1/2 in. (88.9 x 72.3 cm) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Guggenheim Museum in NYC
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