Friday, August 12, 2011

vulnerable


fragile


linear

contour


read as [something]

edgy


striking

gesture

reiterate

cultivate

compelling

capture

illustrate by analogy

high/low contrast

drop out the background



solarize


focal image

outline

intervene

manipulate

highlight

evoke

crosshatching

negative

hidden message

sublime

execute

seriality

constraint

restraint

plaster

crucial

flamboyant

obvious

medium

alienation

intuition

childish

value

gray scale

centralized

unified

naughty

picture plane

dour

masterful

Friday, July 15, 2011

validate

Example:


The validity of research is judged in the space in which it is located. In physics, for example, other physicists within the context of the laboratory judge it. In the art world, art is validated by artists, critics, curators, and the art educators, using institutional and gallery models. But these may not be adequate or appropriate.


valid (adj.)
validate (v.)
validation (n.)

translucent


Hint: trans = across, beyond, opposite side
lucent = light

compare with transparent

transparent


compare with translucent

build on someone's comment/idea, etc.

turbulence


turbulent (adj.)
turbulence (n.)

synthetic




Synthetic has two meanings. It can mean the combination of two or more parts or artificial.

symbolic

subversive

Artist Jerilea Zempel turns brutal machines of war into “warm and fuzzy” sculptures through her subversive crochet projects. She achieved brief Internet stardom via The Colbert Report when Stephen Colbert called her “a dangerous returning American”—aka an artist who crochets covers for SUVs and tanks—after she was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who discovered her artist notebook replete with line drawings of SUVs and crocheting plans.

subtle


more info on this painting here

subject matter

Any attempt to extend the subject-matter of art is extremely distasteful to the public; and yet the vitality and progress of art depend in a large measure on the continual extension of subject-matter.

The Soul of Man under Socialism
by Wilde, Oscar

in context here



The subject matter of Picasso's Guernica is the horror of war.

still life

A still life by Caravaggio.

stencil



a stencil (n.) (can refer to the image or the cut-out stencil itself)
to stencil/ stenciling (v.)

dynamic

static

spatial

simultaneous

simulate

simplify

shattered

satirical


The artist George Grosz is famous for the satirical images he created of 1930s Germany.

satire (n.)
to satirize (v.)

residue

rectilinear

reconstruct

reconfigured

recede

random angles

perspective

otherworldly

orthogonal

opaque

one on top of another

objective of the assignment

Most art and design teachers will expect your projects to match the goals of the learning task, or the objective of the assignment.

“The objective of the assignment is to expose the students to a range of Art practice and to start talking about their responses and perceptions around artwork they would normally choose to dismiss,” said Bowes.

numerous

non-representational

non-objective

non-figurative

mural

multiple viewpoints

modeling

minimal

literal

linear

layering

juxtapose

irony

intersect

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

interpretation

definition and pronunciation

interplay

interpenetrate

interchangeable

interaction

intention

inspired by

hilarious

hierarchical

geometric

fragment

formulate

flexible

flattened

figurative

fiber design

extract

exaggerate

evolving

epicenter

engage

embellish

distort

distinction

diorama

diamond

diagonal

depiction

deliberate

deconstruct

curvilinear

cubism

convey

context

conspicuous

conceptual

component

complementary

coloration

coded

cantilevered

blend

banal

asymmetrical

element

amorphous

ambiguous

agitating

aesthetic

aerosol

abstract