Elements of Design: Line, Shape, Form, Mass, Structure, Color, Light, Value, Time, Space, and
Texture.

Vocabulary: line, horizontal line, vertical line, diagonal line, line direction, line variety, line width, organic shape, biomorphic shape, geometric shape, irregular shape, positive shape/space,
negative shape, space, form, mass, structure, color, hue, intensity, value, monochromatic,
analogous, complimentary, split-compliment, primary colors, secondary colors, intermediate
colors, tertiary colors, value, 9 point value scale, high key values, middle key values, low key
values, vanishing point, horizon line, one point perspective, two point perspective, three point
perspective, real texture, perceived texture, point of view, objective point of view, bird’s eye
point of view, worm’s eye point of view, advancing and receding colors, warm and cool colors,overlapping shapes, atmospheric color

Principles of Design: Balance, Emphasis, Point of View, Unity, Variety,Repetition, Pattern,Rhythm,Contrast,Proportion.

Vocabulary: symmetrical balance, asymmetrical balance, focal point, objective, subjective,
motif, simultaneous contrast, ideal proportion, distorted proportion, realistic proportion, variety,
repetition, pattern, rhythm, low contrast, medium contrast, high contrast, composition

Art History: Western, World, Women, Multi-cultural, Folk, Outsider, etc (Painting, Drawing,
Printmaking, Sculpture, Relief, Textiles, Architecture, Photography, Metals/Jewelry)

Summary and Chronology of Western Art History
Ancient Greece and Rome 540 B.C. until First Century A.D.
Romanesque and Gothic Periods 1100 A.D. to 1400 A.D.
Renaissance 1400 to 1580 A.D.
Northern Renaissance 1490 to 1590 A.D.
Mannerism 1500 to 1600 A.D.
Baroque and Rococo 1590 to 1780 A.D.
Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750 to 1875 A.D.
Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 1840 to 1900 A.D.
Modern Art 1900 to 1980
Fauvism 1905 to 1910
Expressionism 1903 to 1915
Cubism 1905 to 1915
Futurism 1909 to 1940
Constructivism and Suprematism 1913 to 1928
Dada 1916 to 1922
De Stijl 1917 to 1923
Bauhaus 1919 to 1933, 1938 to 1946
Surrealism 1924 to 1940
Abstract Expressionism 1942 to 1962
Pop and Op Art 1956 to 1970
Minimal Art 1964 to 1975
Conceptual Art 1968 to 1975
New Realism 1968 to 1980
NeoExpressionism (Bad Art) 1975 to 1980
Post Modern Art 1980 to present

Major Artist
Alberto Giacometti
Albrecht Durer
Alexander Calder
Andre Derain
Andrea Mantegna
Andrew Wyeth
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Warhol
Ansel Adams
Anselm Keifer
Arshile Gorky
ArtemesiaGentileschi*
Audrey Flack*
Auguste Renoir
Auguste Rodin
Benjamin West
Berthe Morisot*
Bridgette Riley*
Caravaggio
Chaim Soutine
Charles Russell
Christo
Chuck Close
Claude Monet
Claus Oldenburg
Constantin Brancusi
David Hockney
Diego Rivera
Diego Velazquez
Donatello
Duane Hanson
Eadweard Muybridge
Edgar Degas
Edouard Manet
Edward Hicks
Edward Kienholz
Edward Weston
Elisabeth Vigee-
LeBrun*
Ellsworth Kelly
Emile Nolde
Eric Carle
Faith Ringgold*
Ferdinand Leger
Francisco Goya
Frank Lloyd
Wright
Frans Hals
Franz Kline
Franz Marc
Frederick Church
Frida Kahlo*
George Grosz
George Segal
Georges Braque
Georges Rouault
Georges Seurat
GeorgiaO’Keeffe*
Giorgio de
Chirico
Giorgione
Grant Wood
Gustave Corbet
Hans Hoffman
Helen
Frankenthaler*
Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Matisse
Henry Moore
Hieronymus
Bosch
Honore Daumier
Imogene
Cunningham*
Jackson Pollock
Jacques Louis
David
Jacques Villon
James McNeil
Whistler
James Rosenquist
Jan Vermeer
Janet Fish*
Jasper Johns
Jean Arp
Jean Baptiste
Chardin
Jean-Auguste
Dominique Ingres
Jenny Holzer
John Biggers
John Caleb
Bingham
John Constable
John Singleton
Copley
Jose Clemente
Orozco
Joseph Cornell
Joseph M. W.
Turner
Joseph Stella
Joshua Reynolds
Juan Gris
Juane Quick-tosee
Smith*
Judith Leyster*
Judy Chicago*
Julian Schnabel
Kathe Kollwitz*
Kenneth Noland
Kurt Schwitters
Larry Rivers
Laurie Anderson*
Le Corbusier
Lee Krasner
Leonardo Da
Vinci
Louise Nevelson*
Lyonel Feininger
M.C. Escher
Man Ray
Marc Chagall
Marcel Duchamp
Mark Rothko
Mary Cassatt*
Maurice Sendak
Max Beckman
Meret Openheim*
Michaelangelo
Mies van der
Rohe
Miriam Shapiro*
Modigliani
Morris Louis
Nam June Pak*
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cezanne
Paul Gauguin
Paul Klee
Peter Paul Rubens
Philip Pearlstein
Piet Mondrian
Raoul Dufy
Raphael
Rembrandt
Rembrandt van Rijn
Federick Remington
Rene Magritte
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Estes
Robert Indiana
Robert Morris
Robert Motherwell
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Smithson
Rosa Bonheur*
Roy Lichtenstein
Salvador Dali
Sandro Botticelli
Sandy Skoglund*
Sonja Delaunay*
Stuart Davis
Theordore Gericault
Thomas Cole
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Gainsborough
Titian
Tom Wesselman
Victor Vasarely
Vincent Van Gogh
Wassily Kandinsky
Willem de Kooning
William Blake
Winslow Homer
Yves Tanguy

Art Movements:
Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Pre-historic, Pre-Columbian, Realism, Romanticism,
Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classical, Impressionism, Expressionism, Post-
Impressionism, Abstraction, de Stihl, Da Da, Abstract Expressionism, Earth Art, Environmental
Art, Post-Modernism, Performance Art, Installation Art, Egyptian, Eastern, Middle-Eastern

Art Forms:
Drawing,Painting,Sculpture,Printmaking,Weaving,Fiber Art,Textiles,Ceramics,Watercolor,Folk Art,Communication Design,Environmental Art,Installation Art,Photography,Glass,Computer Art

Media Techniques and Art Forms
Media: graphite, charcoal, pastels, oil pastels, wax crayons, Conte crayon, tempera paint,
chalk, watercolor markers, watercolor, tissue paper, construction paper, newsprint, white
drawing paper, clay, fibers, metal, photographs, books, printing ink.

Techniques: wash, engrave, relief, graded wash, hatching, cross-hatching, blending, rubbing,
toning, wet on wet, tear, cut, overlap, combine, weave, carve, bend, coil, pinch, slab, etc.

Art Forms: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, Weaving, Fiber Art,
Installation Art, Computer Art, Printmaking, Watercolor, Communication Design

Themes/Subject Matter:
Joy, love, sensuality, friendship, politics, marriage, family, relationships, childhood, still life,
landscape, seascape, death, dying, sickness, intolerance, slavery, injustice, poverty, values,
spirituality, religion, meaning of life, personal experiences, self-portrait, beauty, ugliness,
happiness, sadness, depression, money, greed, ignorance, technology, etc.

Art Appreciation, Art History, Art Criticism and Aesthetics Web Sites
Web Museum: mirror.oir.ucf.edu/wm/

Art Quotes: www.painterskeys.com/quotations.asp

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA): www.moma.org/

Smithsonian American Art Museum: www.americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm

Metropolitan Art Museum: www.metmuseum.org/

World Wide Arts Resources: wwar.com/artists/index.html

Art History Resources on the Web: witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Hirshorn Art Museum: hirshhorn.si.edu/

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: www.famsf.org/

National Gallery of Art: www.nga.gov/

The Mother of All Art and Art History Links: www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

National Museum of Women in the Arts: www.nmwa.org/

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: www.mamfw.org/

The Art Institute of Chicago: www.artic.edu/aic/

The Amon Carter Museum: www.cartermuseum.org/

Dallas Museum of Art: www.dallasmuseumofart.org/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=212

Diego Rivera Art Museum: www.diegorivera.com/index.php

Musee D?Orsay: www.musee-orsay.fr/ORSAY/accueilMO/HTML.NSF/732927420973f9b5c12564280045edf6/322da73321db3942c1256714004e756a?OpenDocument

Link to Art Games
www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/artgames.html#Online