ART 101 New York Movie by Edward Harper Tarrant County College District Analysis

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Instructions

Write a 350 word, double spaced, 12 font, Time New Roman, formal analysis about this piece in MLA format; while using vocabulary from the elements and principles of art from the Vocabulary List below. The paper should have a cover page with the title of the paper, introduction with a thesis statement, a body with main points, and a conclusion with your personal thoughts on the work of artwork below.3.1 Edward Hopper. New York Movie. 1939. Oil on canvas.

Vocabulary List:

Elements of Art

Line: The path of a moving point made by a tool, instrument or medium as it moves across an area. Line is the foundation of all drawing. Line in an artwork can be used to suggest shape, pattern, form, structure, growth, depth, distance, rhythm and movement.

Types of Line:

Curved Lines suggest comfort and ease

Horizontal Lines suggest distance and rest

Vertical Lines suggest height and strength

Diagonal Lines are dramatic and suggest action

Jagged Lines suggest turmoil and anxiety

Implied Line: A line that dims, fades, stops, and/or disappears. The missing portion of the line is implied to continue and its visually completed by the observer.

The way Lines are rendered can convey different expressive qualities:

Freehand Lines: energy, whimsy

Mechanical Lines: rigid control

Whimsical Lines: Spontaneously fanciful or playful line.

Shape/Mass:

Shape and mass can be created by line, texture and color change.

Shape:2-dimensional form that occupies an area with identifiable boundaries.

Mass:3-dimensional form that occupies a volume of space with identifiable boundaries.

Types of Shape:

Geometric Forms can be mathematically defined.

Organic Forms are irregular and suggest forms found in nature.

Actual Shape: clearly defined positive area

Amorphous Shape: A shape without shape or clarity

Implied shape: A shape suggested or created by the psychological connection of dots, lines, areas or their edges creating the appearance of a shape that does not physically exist.

Light/Value:

Relative degree of light or dark. The characteristic of color determined by relative light or dark or the quantity of light reflected by the color.

Chiaroscuro: Italian for light/dark; contrasts of light and shadow.

Shading/Modeling: Using chiaroscuro or values to create mass.

Color:

Primary Colors: Yellow, Red, Blue

Secondary Colors: Orange, Green, Violet

Tertiary Colors: yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange

Warm Colors: located on red-orange side of the color wheel

Cool Colors: located on the blue-green side of the color wheel.

Tint: adding white to a pigmented color.

Shade: adding black to a color

Color scheme: the selective use of 2 or more colors in a single composition.

Monochromatic: Variations of the same hue.

Complementary: Hues directly opposite on the color wheel.

Analogous: Adjacent hues on the color wheel.

Triadic: 3 equidistant hues on the color wheel.

Emotional responses to color are both culturally conditioned and intensely personal.

Texture/Pattern:

Texture and pattern are the perceived surface qualities of a work of art.They can be actual or implied.

Actual texture: A tactile experience.

Implied texture:An illusionary experience.

Pattern: Any decorative, repetitive motif or design.

Space:

Space interacts with other visual elements and helps give them definition. There exists both negative (ground) and positive (figure) space.

Two-dimensional space has only height and width.

Three-dimensional space has height, width, and depth.

Implied Space: Includes overlapping and position (foreground, middle-ground, background)

Illusionistic Space: Includes foreshortening, linear, isometric, and atmospheric perspective

Principles of Art

Composition: the organization of all the visual elements within a work of art.

Unity/Variety:

Unity: The sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole.

Variety: Differences that provide interest and contrast.

Visual Unity: Based on using the visual elements.

Conceptual Unity: Created through tying a group of ideas together.

Balance:

Visual Weight: Refers to an apparent “heaviness” or “lightness” of forms arranged in a composition. When visual weight is equally distributed to either side of the implied center of gravity a composition is felt to be visually balanced.

Symmetrical Balance: Mirror image of shapes/forms on either side of an imaginary axial dividing line; elements correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement.

Relieved/Approximate Symmetry: Slight differences between axial areas of a work of art.

Asymmetrical Balance: Two sides that do not correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement.

Emphasis and Subordination:

Emphasis: The viewer’s attention will be centered more on certain parts of the composition than on others.

Focal point: A specific spot to which one’s attention is directed.

Subordination:A less visually interesting area.

Scale and Proportion:

Scale:Size in relation to a constant or “normal” size.

Proportion:Refers to size relationships between parts of a whole or between two or more items perceived as a unit.

Hierarchical Scale:Using size change to indicate relative importance.

Rhythm:

Rhythm is based in repetition and is a basic part of our world.

Visual Rhythm: Depends on the repetition of accented elements, usually shapes.