ARTS 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dendrochronology
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Perspective: system for representing 3d objects on a 2d surface by drawing their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point. Appropriation: practice by which an image or a work of art is taken and placed into a new context, thus giving the image or the work of art a new meaning. Medium: material from which a work of art is made. Formal analysis: analysis of the formal structure of a work of art. Composition: overall arrangement, organization, or structure of an image. Modeling: shading; a gradual transition from lights to darks. Foreshortening: carefully calculated angle of the virgin"s elbow makes it seem to project out toward the viewer. Axis: horizontal and vertical; line of demarcation in the landscape"s terrain that can be used to separate lighter hues from the darker. Iconography: conventional meaning or symbolic content associated with a particular form, object, or figure.
