Wednesday 17 June 2015

cardboard city - glossary of terms

AVANT GARD:
Applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter
CARL ANDRE BRICKS
Kinetic art:
is art that depends on motion for its effects
e.g. Alexander Calder- Antennae with Red and Blue Dots 1960
Installation art:
is used to describe mixed-media constructions or assemblages usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time
e.g. Cornelia Parker Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 1991 &   Rachel Whiteread
Figurative art 
Describes any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure e.g. Picasso 
Abstract art
 is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect; it could be based on a subject such as a figure, landscape or object or may have no source at all in the external world e.g. : Kandinsky
Other Key Words 
Liner
Stop motion : Onion skinning 
Meditate and synthesis an image 
silhouette
Zoetrope: Reciprocal Action & Persistence of vision 
Objets trouvés
Theater d'ombre

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