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    MY COURSE MODULE | Week 04

    ADEYEMI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ONDO


    Department of Fine & Applied Arts
    COUSRE CODE: FAA 101
    COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO FINE AND APPLIED ARTS

    Course Topic: Terminologies (Terms) in Fine and Applied Arts

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ART TEMINOLOGIES?


    Art terminologies are a body of words that are peculiar to art. They are words commonly used in
    art and are simply referred to as art language. For instance, the word donkey is an animal in
    everyday use, but in art terms or language, donkey means a seat used for drawing.

    SOME ART TERMINOLOGIES

    1. ABSTRACT: It is used to describe art that is not representational or based on external


    reality or nature.
    2. ARMATURE: A rigid framework, often wood or steel, used to support a sculpture or
    other large work while it is being made.
    3. AESTHETIC: This term is used to describe the artistic beauty in a work of Art. An
    aesthetic response is an appreciation of such beauty.
    4. ASSEMBLAGE: The technique of creating a sculpture by joining together individual
    pieces or segments, sometimes “found” objects that originally served another
    purpose.
    5. COMPOSITION: The organization, design or placement of the elements of art
    according to the principle of art. The aim is to achieve balance and proportionality.
    Usually applied to two-dimensional art.
    6. COLLAGE: A work of art made by pasting various materials such as bits of paper, cloth,
    etc. onto a piece of paper, board or canvas.
    7. CONTENT: This is the essential meaning, significance or aesthetic value of an art form.
    It is also the message conveyed by a work of art - its subject matter and whatever the
    artist hopes to convey by that subject matter.
    8. CONTOUR: A line that creates a boundary separating an area of space or object from
    the space around it.
    9. DESIGN: The planned organization of lines, shapes, masses, colors, textures, and space
    in a work of art. In two-dimensional art, often called composition.
    10. EXPRESSION: This is the means by which an artist communicates ideas and emotions
    in a work of art.
    11. DISTORTION: Any change made by an artist in the size, position, or general character
    of forms based on visual perception, when those forms are organized into a pictorial
    image. Any personal or subjective interpretation of natural forms must necessarily
    involve a degree of distortion.
    12. FORM: The physical appearance of a work of art - its materials, style, and composition.
    OR Any identifiable shape or mass, as a “geometric form.”
    13. FRESCO: A painting technique in which the pigments are dispersed in plain water and
    applied to a damp plaster wall. The wall becomes the binder, as well as the support.
    14. FUTURISM: Art movement founded in Italy in 1909 and lasting only a few years.
    Futurism concentrated on the dynamic quality of modern technological life,
    emphasizing speed and movement.
    15. GENRE: Art that depicts the casual moments of everyday life and its surroundings.
    16. NATURALISTIC: Descriptive of an artwork that closely resembles forms in the natural
    world. Synonymous with representational.
    17. OVERLAP EFFECT: Spatial relationships are achieved by placing one object in front of
    another. The object closest to the viewer blocks out the view of any part of any other
    object located behind it (or, where the two objects overlap, the one in back is
    obscured).
    18. POSITIVE SPACE: The space in a painting occupied by the object depicted (not the
    spaces in-between objects)
    19. SILHOUETTE: The outer shape of an object. An outline, often filled in with color.
    20. SKETCH: A preliminary drawing of a composition.
    21. SPACE: In painting, space may by defined as the distances between shapes on a flat
    surface and the illusion of three-dimensions on a two-dimensional surface. Also refers
    to a physical site where art is displayed for viewing.

    N.B There are so many other art terminologies available check the library both online and
    offline for further reading.

    --

    Fiyin O. Yusuf
    fiyinoluwaferanmiyusuf@gmail.com
    _____________________________________________________________________________________________

    REFERENCE AND FURTHER READING

    Banjoko, I. (2000). Visual Art Made Easy Text Book for Schools and Colleges; Movic Publishers,
    Yaba Lagos.

    Art Terminologies (2020). Retrieved from https://classhall.com/lesson/art-terminologies/


    27, August,2021

    Modern Art (2021) https://www.modernsculpture.com/art-terminology-a-glossary

    https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a

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