visual art vocabulary

CURVED LINE

Medusa by Caravaggio, 1597

ZIG ZAG LINE

The East River by Maurice Prendergast, 1901

VERTICAL LINE

Man Pointing by Alberto Giacometti, 1947

HORIZONTAL LINE

Women of Tahiti by Paul Gauguin, 1891

DIAGONAL LINE

West Wing by Sumiyoshi Jokei, 1662-1670

ORGANIC SHAPES

Landscape by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue and Black by

Piet Mondrian, 1921

TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) WORKUnititled by Julie Mehretu, 1999

The Arnolfini Marriage by Jan van Eyck, 1434

Jeffrey Pine by Ansel Adams, 1940

THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) FORMSVenus de Milo, artist unknown, 150 B.C.E

Teapot by Warren MacKenzie

Shiva As Nataraja, the Lord of Dance, artist unknown, 1100

COLORRed-orange

Yellow-green

Red-violet

Blue-green

Blue-violet Yellow-orange

VALUE

ACTUAL TEXTUREObject (Lunch in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim, 1936

Detail of Olive Trees by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Ivory Mask, artist unknown, 1500-1600

VISUAL TEXTUREPortrait with Vegetables by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1590

Portrait of Diderot by Carle van Loo, 1767

Dirty Leaf by David Musgrave, 2004

POSITIVE & NEGATIVE SPACE

Portrait by Elizabeth Peyton

NEGATIVE SPACE

POSITIVE SPACE

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