Analyze and compare visual elements for:
– Limbourg Brothers, January
– Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
– Dieric Bouts, Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament
– Stefan Lochner, Madonna in the Rose Garden
Use the Elements of Art and Design vocabulary provided and the introduction to the textbook. Discuss the work in formal terms.
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Point: has no length, breadth or depth (ex: two ends of a line)
Plane: the path of a line in motion (defines volume)
Line: the path of a moving point or point in motion
Volume: (mass, form) the path of a plane in motion
Shape: a flat area that has dimensions of width and length but not depth
Color: light waves reflected by objects (contains hue, value, and intensity)
Value: degree of lightness or darkness
Texture: the structure of the surface of materials, thing, or a work of art
Space: the area between objects; the volume of a mass (negative or positive space or figure ground)
Harmony: the quality of oneness
(ex: common direction or shape, or similar color)
Balance: equilibrium between different and at times opposing elements
(Ex: small group of shapes can balance one large shape)
Rhythm: alternating or accelerating movement that causes the eye to move over the surface of the design
Tone: a visual sensation having value and/or hue and saturation
Saturation: (intensity) the relative degree of purity or strength a hue possesses
Hue: (color) a specific visual sensation created by wavelength of light
Tint: a hue plus white in mixture
Shade: a hue plus black in mixture
Primary
Colors: the basic colors from which all other colors can be mixed
(red, blue, and yellow)
Secondary Colors: the hues mixed from equal parts of two primary colors
(blue + yellow = green)
Optical Mixing: juxtaposing unmixed high intensity hues near each other in a work so the eye perceives one new color when viewed at a distance (Pointillism)
