Graphics Reference
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Table 1.
Your Visual Response: What is Art for You?
Looking carefully at your everyday environment (home, workplace, neighborhood) select some objects that you would like to appreciate as
art works, examine the process involved in their creation you believe was applied, the final product, and then justify your choice.
In order to better analyze and appreciate a work of
art, it may be useful to focus on basic art concepts
that can apply to any work of a visual art. These
basic art concepts would include the type or form
of art, subject matter, style, medium, and design.
If we'd like, for example create an artwork
representing an apple, we'd need to make certain
decisions (after acquiring an apple):
an architectural structure in the form of an
apple?
2. The subject matter defines the meaning of
the work of art; the theme, topic, or motif
represented as a person or object; it may be
a portrait, a landscape, a still life, an abstract
work, etc. Would we represent an apple as
a part of a still life, a portrait of a man or a
woman eating an apple, a landscape such as
an orchard with small, multiplied images of
an apple, an abstract artwork about an apple,
or an almost abstract image of a close-up of
the apple skin or showing an apple's interior.
3. The style tells about the traits and resem-
blances within a group of works of art, the
1. The type or form of art describes the kind
of art or art products, the schemes used to
classify art, and the functions art products
serve; an artwork may be described as a
drawing, a painting, a sculpture, etc. Would
we paint, sculpt, draw an apple, or erect
