VISUAL+ARTS+VOCABULARY

Welcome to Valders High School Advanced Art

**Emotional Mood / Expression**

Ideas in composing Art *Choice of color and shape can help create a balanced composition. *Neutral color can be added to darken or lighten a color. *Vocabulary used in math is also used in visual Art to define and measure geometric shapes and forms. *Color mixing helps to create a wide range of value and intensity of each color. *Limiting color can unify a painting. *Composition can be symmetrical or asymmetrical in balanced.
 * Artists use primary, secondary, intermediate, complimentary and analogous color schemes in their paintings to express emotion.

Essential Questions How does changing typical proportions influence the mood of the portrait? How can an artist exaggerate facial features to show a mood or condition? How do we emotionally respond to color? How have famous Artist in various cultures used exaggeration in portraiture?

**__Sketchbook Assignment__ 4** **: (10 points)** -Expressive qualities <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Visual Arts Vocabulary is very important. Your sketchbook assignment asked you to create four portrait sketches in your sketchbook from the 101 famous Artists. Now apply one emotion to each of the four portrait sketches. Please write two to four sentences that describe the choice of emotion you believe the drawing expresses and how the artist used the elements and principals of Art to reinforce the emotional impact of their drawing/painting. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Example:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">This portrait has a feeling of sadness. Picasso uses the color blue to express the emotion that he is sad or blue. Picasso also uses line and shape to direct the head down representing sadness. Picasso exaggerated facial features to show mood and the condition of life. The painting is unified by the limited palette.
 * Email your sentences to the course instructor** kbecker@valders.k12.wi.us
 * Submit your sentences by Sunday Midnight (1 full week from assigned date WEEK 3)**