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Visual Arts Basics
Friday February 15 - Visual Arts Basics (teacher tape)
Friday February 22 - Visual Arts Basics (student tape)

This review covers Core Content for Arts and Humanities, grades 6-8.
An extensive High School Visual Arts Scrimmage will available for students who are registered for KET's Humanities through the Arts.
For information: humanities@ket.org

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Vocabulary - Page 2

Principles of design: repetition, pattern, balance, emphasis, contrast, rhythm, proportion, movement.
Explain how each principle of design appears in the example.

Balance (symmetry/asymmetry)and proportion
Contrast
Emphasis (focal point)
Movement and rhythm
Pattern and repetition
Proportion

Two-dimensional

  • media: crayon, pencil, fabric, yarn, tempera paint, watercolor paint, ink, and pastel.
  • art processes: painting, fabric design, printmaking, and mosaic.

Three-dimensional

  • media: clay, paper mache', found objects, wood, glass metal, stone.
  • art processes: ceramics, sculpture, and architecture.
  1. Which of the works above are two-dimensional?
  2. Whick works are three-dimensional?
  3. Can you name the process used to create each work?


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