Art - Assignment 1

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1. What feelings and moods do horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines usually suggest?
	Vertical lines usually suggest a human element, as they run straight up and down like a standing person. They also remind us object such as fences, forests, and skyscrapers. They are used to give a sense of stability, height, and dignity.
	Horizontal lines give a prepesctive of the ocean, the horizon, or a human at rest, due to the fact they run side to side. They commonly convey feelings of calmness, repose, and balance.
	Diagonal lines move at an angle, thus creating an element of action, movement, or tension. They can show the form a plan soaring through the sky, a tree falling, rays of sunlight piercing the sky, or other such actions.

2. What is the difference between an outline and a contour line?
	Outlines refere to the outer edge of a silhouette. Outline generally make an object look flat and the same thickness all the way through.
	Contour lines are lines that suggest the general shape of an object, and adds other lines to include interior detail.

3. What are two characteristics of line that give the line personality and help convey a specific mood?
	Direction or movement and quality or weight.

4. What are implied lines?
	Implied lines are lines that are suggested, but no actually drawn or incoroporated, into the artwork.

5. Name an artwork in this chapter in which the artist used lines to create texture.
	Young Hare - Page 26

6. For what type of artwork is Imogen Cunningham best known?
	Her close up studies of flowers and plants.

7. Describe the lines of the piece of aboriginal art, Flying Ant Dreaming. On what continent to Aboriginal people live on?
	The lines in Flying Ant Dreaming are unquie in that they are created by using a series of colored dots, rather than a solid stroke. This creates a mixed sense of mystery, one can look at the lines and convey the traditional feelings, but at the same time they can be mystified by the creation of the lines. The Aboriginal people orignate from the continent of Australia.

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1. Define shape and form.
	Shape describes and object that appears to be only two dimension, height and width. A form is an object with three dimensions, height, width, and length. Both refer to closed planes created by lines.

2. What is the difference between a geometric shape and on organic shape?
	Geometric shapes are sharp and precisly defined. They generally have 1 or more right edges.
	Organic shapes are loosly defined, with flowing edges and curves.

3. What are positive and negative shapes?
	Positive shapes are tangible shapes that exist within the artwork, such as a bowl of fruit in a painting, while negative shapes refer to the empty areas around the positive shapes.

4. List six qualities of shapes.
	Light, heavy, texture, smooth, static and dynamic.

5. How does light influence how we see form?
	Light can highlight certain areas, and even make it appear as certain areas of the form are non-existent. This has a great deal of control over the appearence of an object.

6. What is unusual about Meret Oppenheim's Object?
	It is natural to expect common objects to have common textures. Yet in art such as Object this is not always the case. Seeing such an image can covey strong physcological feelings from within a person.

7. What subject does Jacob Lawerence depict in his painting series?
	Important persons or events in African-American history.0