Blog 4

   Complementary Colors

Complementary colors are pairs of colors, such as red and green and are directly opposite one another on the color wheel. As the above "Untitled" work by Gerhard Richter shows. We see the colors red and green which complement each other and they are opposite one another on the color wheel. 

 

 

 Frottage

Frottage is a technique of putting paper over a textured surface and rubbing a soft pencil across. "Rendezvous of Friends-The Friends Become Flowers" by Max Ernst is a great example of frottage because it creates an illusion of being able to touch the flowers. You can see the texture effect.

 

 Hatching

Hatching is spaced parallel lines that create an effect of shading, the closer the spacing the darker the area appears. " The Map" by Mary Cassatt was my choice for hatching because it has many closely spaced parallel lines on a light colored paper, making a darker effect of shading.

 

 Local Color

Local color is the actual hue of a thing. "The Checkered Tablecloth" by Pierre Bonnard shows local color. In the above art work we see the actual color of what fruit is, a plate, the basket and the tablecloth. These things are all an actual color that we know these things to be.

Optical Art

Optical art or "Op Art" is an art style that was popular in the 1960s, line and color were manipulated in ways to stimulate the eye into believing the art work moved. As we look at "Hesitate" by Bridget Riley we can see home it looks as if her work moves.

Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is the use of light and dark to create a three-dimensional effect. "St. Catherine of Alexandria" by Artemisia Gentileschi shows chiaroscuro. In this painting Gentileschi uses large areas of dark with dramatic spots of light creating a three-dimensional effect.

Line and Space

OUTLINE

"The Red Mean: Self Portrait" by Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith is an outline, which shows the edge of a shape or figure depicted by an actual line drawn or painted. In Jaune Smith's work, which is an imitation of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Golden Mean", you can clearly see the drawn outline of her own body with a medicine wheel on top.

 



 

  CONTOUR LINE

A contour line is a perceived line that marks the boarder of an object in space. "Mummy Head" by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska is an example of a contour line because it  has a perceived line that marks the boarder of the mummy's head which then makes it look like the mummy's head is in space. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMPLIED LINE



An implied line is created by movement or directions. It gives the viewer a sense of enclosure and connection. In Cheri Samba's "Le Chat Complice" the implied line is the mans arm pointing to the writing on the wall. The pointing  gives the viewer a sense of direction and enclosure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ONE POINT LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

A version of a linear perspective is the one-point linear perspective, in which there is only one vanishing point in the art piece. In Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi", the vanishing point is directly in the center where the stair case ends at the horizon making this a good example of a one-point linear perspective.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FORESHORTENING

Foreshortening is the modification of perspective to decrease distortion created by the point of view. In Andrea Mantegna's "Camera picta", also known as the "Camera degli Sposi", the artist has used foreshortening with the ceiling to give the viewer the feeling of being below the painting.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIRTUAL SPACE

Doug Aitke's "Electric Earth" is an example of a virtual space because it gives viewers a disorienting feeling as they wander through a non urban waste land. At the beginning of the attached video of this installation I had felt like I was on a train watching. This installation is eight laser discs of architecture environment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSziysd2Duk