Sebastian Jach

Introduction
1. The study of history is vital to Art History because it allows for a better understanding of art. It can
help us understand the original context of artworks. Thus, it allows for a better understanding of why
the artwork was created or what what was happening at the time the artwork was created.
2. How old is it? Art historians must be able to know the date of each work they study so that they can
place it in its historical context.
What is its style? The style of an artwork can set it apart from all other pieces of art. The style of an
artwork provides lots of information such as what region or time period is from. Understanding the
style of an artwork offers insite into what makes the art diffrent or unique.
What is its subject? The subject of an artowrk is cruical to understanding an artwork. Diffrent types of
subjects offer insight to the purpose of the work. Hence, the subject of an artwork is important to
understand.
Who made it? By knowing who made a piece of art, art historians can associate the style of the art
peice to the particualar artist.
Who paid for it? It's possible that an artist had little say in what his artwork would look like. This is
because the patron can decide how he wants the artwork to look like. It's possible that artist created
something they didn't want to create because of who would be paying for it.
3. Form refers to an object's shape and structure. Since forms only include shape and structure, two
forms may take the same shape but differ in color or other qualities.
Composition refers to how an artist organizes form in an artwork. This can be done by arranging the
forms or placing them on a flat surface.
Material is all the tools an artist will use in order to create an artwork.
Technique is how the artist will use their tools to create their artwork.
Line Drawn on a plane and used to form basic shapes or add texture.
Textures the quality of a surface the light reveals. True texture is texture that you can touch and
represented texture is a depiction regardless of the true texture.
Space can be refered to as the distance between two objects.
Perspective is used to organize forms in space. The way these forms are organized allows for
different view point or perspectives.
Foreshortening is the way an artist represtents single figures in space. It is a kind of perspective.
Proportion concerns the relationships in terms of size of all the objects in the artwork.

Scale - size of an object in relationship to another object.

4.The primary colors are red, yellow and blue.
5. The secondary colors are orange, purple and green.
6. The conplementary colors are orange and blue, purple and yellow, green and red and they complete
or absord each other.
7. Subtrative sculptures use a technique called subtraction where the final form of the art is a reduction
of a material such as rock or wood. An additive sculpture is created when an artist builds up the form
using various materials such as clay or other materials.
8. A relief sculpture is a type of sculpture where the subject is projected inside of the background where
you can not see a 360 view of the artwork.
9. A design or a plan of a building. Contains lots of imformation on the specifications of the building.