VOCABULARY

TERM
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Art Art is the feeling, emotions, and
imagination of a human mind

Perceive!

To become aware of, to know.

Folk artists

Art originating from common people
of a nation or region and usually
reflecting their traditional culture,
especially every day or festive items
produced or decorated by unschooled
artists.

Artists

the deepest levels of human the
human mind but they might also
make a piece of artwork just to show
the world the true beauty of anything
small to notice it

Action painting

A technique and style of abstract
painting in which the artist paints,
randomly ,splashes , or throws on the
canvas

Symbol

Something that represents or stands
for something else.

Elements of art

The elements of art are a commonly
used group of aspects of a work of art
used in teaching and analysis.





DIRECT
OBSERVATION
Direct observation means to use all of
your senses to observe art

Collage A piece of art made by sticking
different materials like, photographs
and pieces of paper or fabric onto a
backing

Montage A technique of selecting, editing, and
piecing together sections of film to
form a continuing whole

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Commemoration
A commemoration is a celebration of
someone or something, usually in the
form of a ceremony.
Commemorations are often held on
the anniversary of someone's birth or
death. For example, there have been
many commemorations for Martin
Luther King to honor his contributions
to the civil rights movement. On the
anniversary of 9/11,

commemorations are held to honor
the dead. This word is all about
remembering and respecting.
Fontography A software app used to create digital
fonts, available for all platforms.

Font Styles

Single size and style of a certain
typeface.

Abstract
Expressionism
A development of abstract art
that was created in New York
1940s/50s.

Jackson Pollack A famous artist for creating
the drip drip technique; and a
master of abstract
expressionism.

Leo Twiggs An American painter who
developed the Fine Art
Department.

Vermeer A Dutch painter who
specialized in domestic
interior scenes of middle class
life.

subject A person, place, or thing.

Composition In the visual arts in particular
painting, graphic design,
photography and sculpture is
the placement or
arrangement of visual
elements or ingredients in art.

Content in a state of peaceful
happiness and a state of
satisfaction

FOLK ART Folk art encompasses art
produced from an indigenous
culture or by peasants.

DIA deLos Muertos Day of the Dead (Da de los
Muertos) is a holiday
celebrated in Mexico and by
Mexican Americans living in
the United States and Canada
The holiday focuses on
gatherings of family and
friends to pray for and
remember friends and family
members who have died. ...

OFRENDA STILL to remember and honor the
memory of their ancestors.
Before setting an altar, they
thoroughly clean their house.
We must remember they are
going to have very important
"visitors".
The ofrenda is set on a table,
covered with a fine tablecloth,
preferably white. Then
the papel picado, cut tissue
paper, is set over the cloth.


LIFE ART Life Art (Traditional Chinese)
is a TVB modern drama series
broadcast in March 2007.

ARTIST a person who produces
paintings or drawings as a
profession or hobby.

PAUL CEZZANE Paul Czanne was a French
artist and Post-Impressionist
painter whose work laid the
foundations of the transition
from the 19th-century
conception of artistic
endeavour to a new and
radically different world of art
in the 20th century.

PABLO PICASSO Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish
painter, sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist, and stage designer
who spent most of his adult
life in France

HENRI MATISSE Matisse was a French artist,
known for his use of colour
and his fluid and original
draughtsmanship. He was a
draughtsman, printmaker,
and sculptor, but is known
primarily as a painter

PAUL GAUGUIN Gauguin: French Post-
impressionist painter who
worked in the South Pacific
(1848-1903)

MARC CHAGALL a Belorussian-born French
artist. Art critic Robert Hughes
referred to Chagall as "the
quintessential Jewish artist of
the twentieth century".



Artist commentary

Wayne Thiebaud, born in Arizona in 1920, is considered a key figure in
contemporary American art. Often associated to Pop Art, Thiebaud has
nonetheless always refused to be ascribed to any artistic movement, just like
Morandi. If, on the one hand, his subjects of choice seem to bring him close to
JOAN MIRO Joan Mir i Ferr was a
Catalan Spanish painter,
sculptor, and ceramicist born
in Barcelona. A museum
dedicated to his work, the
Fundaci Joan Mir, was
established in his native city in
1975

DAVID HOCKNEY an English painter,
draughtsman, printmaker,
stage designer and
photographer. He lives in
Bridlington, East Riding of
Yorkshire, and Kensington,


WAYNE THEIBAUD
Wayne Thiebaud is an
American painter whose most
famous works are of cakes,
pastries, boots, toilets, toys
and lipsticks

Pop artists symbols of consumer culture such as candy, sweets, chewing gum,
hot gods, cosmetics, toys on the other hand the absence of both critique and
celebration of American culture, the technical research, the slow, materic, grainy
brushstrokes, the attention to perspective and formal, geometrical aspects of
composition used to depict the soul of those objects set Thiebaud far apart from
the mechanical, impersonal clichs of Pop painting in general. This attention to
painting as a discipline, in particular Thiebaud always referred to himself as a
painter rather than an artist