Art essay
nxia1994SAHI EXTRA CREDIT ESSAY PAPER DUE: before final exam
Visit the Bridgeport City Hall and choose one or two artworks that are in the exhibition. The exhibit features the HCC faculty’s latest works in sculpture, photography, drawing, installation and painting. Discuss the similarities of the artwork. Concentrate on the basics of Art: line, color, form, size, texture, and hue. Make sure you use a lot of Art Terms to describe what you see. EXAMPLE: You can write about the differences using vocabulary we’ve learned this semester.
DIRECTIONS:
YOU MUST GO AND SEE THE SHOW IN PERSON:
Bridgeport City Hall
45 Lyon Terrace, Bridgeport, CT 06604
The essay has to include:
Cover page: title and picture of artwork; your name
One page in length,
Highlight Art Terms
BIO OF THE ARTIST,
VISUAL ANALYSIS,
HISTORIC CLASSIFICATION: What era of Art History does your artwork belong to?
INTRO: one paragraph
BODY: 3 to 4 paragraphs
CONCLUSION: must have at least 5 to 7 sentences
Three footnotes from three different sources on a separate page.
Vocabulary:
· Cartouche An oval or scroll-shaped design or ornament
· Casting a process of making copies of sculpting
· Impasto the thick application of paint oil or acrylic
· Japonisme the Japanese aesthetic in the nineteenth century
· Naturalism a style of art seeking to represent nature
· Salon an officially sponsored exhibition of works of art
· plein air out door painting
· Aerial perspective a technique for creating the illusion of distance
· Basilica an early church/ a Roman building for public functions
· Chiaroscuro light and shadow used to create three-dimensionality
· Dome a vaulted roof erected on a circular base.
· Façade the front of a building.
· Patron the person who pays for the artwork.
· Quatrefoil a medieval frame
· Tempera a fast drying, water-based paint made with egg yoke
· Linear perspective mathematical system to create the illusion of depth
· Fresco a wall painting made of pigment and plaster
· picture plane the flat surface of a drawing or painting
· vanishing point a point where liner lines converge
· annunciation Angel announces to Mary she will give birth to Jesus
· Humanism pre-Christian sources that rely on intellect, rather than spirituality
· Asymmetrical lack of balance
· Baldacchino a canopy above an altar
· Camera obscura forerunner of the photographic camera
· Impasto the thick application of paint
· Minaret a tall, slender tower attached to a mosque.
· Vanitas transitory nature of earthly things and the inevitability of death
· Trompe l’oeil painting that deceives the eye
· Satyr a woodland deity that’s half goat and half man
· Luminism 19th century style of painting emphasizing light on landscape