Unit 1 : Painting

Unit 1 : Painting

1. Treatment of Figures/ Setting

   • Genre
   • Mood
   • Narrative Interpretation
   • Symbolic Interpretation
   • Relationship Between Figures & Setting
   • Foreground/ Middleground /Background Interrelation
   • Specific Aspects of Significance
   • Suggestion of Movement - Pose & Gesture
   • Open Form / Closed Form

2. Style

   • Era
   • Simplicity / Complexity
   • Emphatic / Understated
   • Idealised / Naturalistic / Non-Naturalistic
   • Geometric / Biomorphic
   • Classical / Primitive
   • Clarity / Obscurity
   • Decorative
   • Abstracted
   • Expressionistic
   • Illusionsitic
   • Stylistic / Realistic
   • Ordered / Balanced

3. Composition

   • Horizontals / Verticals / Diagonals
   • Curves : Energy / Movement
   • Symmetry : Repetition, Shapes, Colour
   • Golden Section
   • Triangular / Pyramidal
   • Rhythm : Repeated shapes, lines, patterns

4. Colour

   • Primary / Secondary / Tertiary
   • Saturation
   • Translucency / Opacity
   • Complimentary / Analogous
   • Harmony / Contrast
   • Blended / Broken
   • Descriptive / Expressive
   • Cool / Warm
   • Local Color : Unaltered
   • Flat, Unmodulated : Lack of Chiaroscuro
   • Compositional Device
   • Used to Create Form (e.g. Cezanne)
   • Used to Create Space : Aerial Perspective
   • Mood : Warm / Cool

5. Space

   • Illusionism
   • Linear Perspective
   • Atmospheric (aerial) Perspective
   • Planear Space
   • Recessional Space
   • Foreshortening
     • Parts Diminish as They Recede
       • Changes in Scale
       • Picture Plane & Spectator Involvement
       • Changes in Detail
       • Overlapping of Features
       • Cropped Composition : suggestion of space outside painting
       • Characters Walking / Looking Into or Out of Space

6. Tone

   • The contrast between light & dark (chiaroscuro)
     • Sfumato
     • Source of Light : Natural / Artificial
     • Direction of Light
     • Strength of Light : Hard, separates forms / Soft, blends forms
     • Compositional Device
     • Models Forms : Volume / Shape / 3D
     • Depict Detail
     • Create Mood

7. Form

   • The impression of volume / plasticity in a painting
     • Angles / Twists of body to describe space
     • Tonal Modelling
     • Color : Warm project / Cool recede (Matisse&Cezanne)
     • Brushwork
     • Use of line to separate objects / figures
     • Disintergration of form in work of Impressionists