Hadley Public Schools - official web site for the Hadley Public School District, Hadley, Massachusetts: Hopkins Academy Teacher Pages

Teacher Name: M. Judah,
B.F.A. Painting/Studio Arts,

B.F.A. Art Education, M.Ed. Technology in Ed.
Phone: 413-584-1106
Email: MJudah@hadleyschools.org
Courses: Visual
Arts

Grades 7-12
Extra/Activities: Artwork Shop - Open Studio / Film Fest Meetings

Every Tuesday After School 2:05-2:40
Other: ............................

"It takes a village, to raise a child." ...............An
Africian Proverb

Since it is impossible to montior the contents of all web
sites, if anyone using these links finds inappropriate content
please contact the Hopkins Art Department to correct the
problem. Thank you.

All the best,

Hopkins Art

The Hopkins Academy

Visual Arts Department

Art History Resources

1. http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/

2. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

3. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/art-news.php

4. http://www.nga.gov/

5. http://www.artnet.com/

6. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

7. http://arthistory.about.com/

8. http://wwar.com/artists/

9. http://www.arthistory.cc/

10. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/

11. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/

12. http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/auth/

13. http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/index.asp

14. http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/index.html

15. http://www.massmoca.org/

16. http://www.getty.edu/art/

17. http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/

18. http://www.huntfor.com/

19. http://www.artforschools.com/scheme.php?unit=8b

20. http://www.umassmag.com/nypop/barsalou.htm

21. http://www.umassmag.com/nypop/davidbarsalou.homestead.com/lichtensteinproject.html

22. http://davidbarsalou.homestead.com/LICHTENSTEINPROJECT.html

23. http://www.artmuseums.com/manyland.htm

Elements of Art

Principles of Design

Quote:

"Do the right thing at the right moment,

unselfishly, and for the good of all.

Vocabulary Art Student should know

· juxtaposition -- The conscious positioning or arranging of objects.

· proactive -- to take initative.

· Golden Mean-- Rooted in Greek mathematics, the Golden Mean is a study of perfect ratio of one area in proportion to another. This would meam 1 to 1.6.

· aesthetic--Relating to standards of beauty and art.

· color-- The element of art that is derived from reflected light.

· complementary colors--Colors which appear opposite one another on a color wheel. When placed next to one another, complementary colors are intensified and often appear to vibrate. When mixed, brown or gray is created.

· analogous colors -- Any set of three or five adjacent or neighboring colors of the color wheel. An example of such a set would include blue, blue-green, green - or- blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green, yellow. Because each set of colors shares similar colors, there is a harmony to analogous colors.

· composition--In the visual arts, the structure or organization of a work.

· harmony -- The principle of design that creates unity and harmony by stressing separate but related parts. Repetition is one example of a way that harmony is achieved.

· focal point -- A specific area, element or principle that dominates a work of srt. The viewer's eye is usually drawn there first.

· foreground -- The area of a painting or drawing, usually located near the bottom third of a work, that represents the space "closest" to the viewer.

· background-- In a painting or drawing, the area that seem most distant, as if in the back of the picture. Often this is referred to as negative space.

· ceramics-- The art of making objects such as pottery out of clay. This term is used to decribe these objects as well.

· kiln -- A commercially produced oven designed to each very high temperatures. Kilns are used to fire ceramics.

· firing -- An extremely high temperature baking process used to harden ceramic works. This is usually done in a kiln or by building extremely hot, smoldering fires in the ground around clay works.

· kinetic art -- Art that utilizes movement.

· mandala -- A symbolic circular design.

· collaboration--To work together in an artistic undertaking.

· collage--From the French word "coller" which means "to paste". A collage is any artistic composition made by gluing assorted materials to a flat surface.

· assemblage--A three-dimensional collage created from a group of everyday objects, many times pre-made and put together in a specific way.

Very Important Vocabuary for Quizzes

Color Theory is a color system used to show color harmonies.

Complementary colors are opposite each other on the color wheel.

Secondary colors are green, orange, violet.

Primary Colors cannot be made, they are the basic colors - red, blue, yellow.

Intermediate Colors are mixed analogous colors, i.e. red mixed with violet, creates red-violet.

Analogous Colors are 2 or 3 colors next to each other on the color wheel.

Warm colors are red, orange, yellow.

Atmospheric perspective is where objects fades into the distance, get smaller, and have less detail as they go up the page…into the distant space.

Tertiary colors are Intermediate Colors, i.e. yellow-orange, red-violet, blue-green

Shade is a dark values of a color.

Tint light values of a color.

Portrait a work of art about a person

Local Color is the basic color of something, like green grass, blue sky

Mood in a painting can be created by using neutrals, grays, browns to show rain and saddness, warm colors to show sunshine and happiness.

Color Wheel shows how visual colors are related to each other in different harmonies.

Depth is the illusion of space that can be created using color, line, shape.

Model - a person posing for work of art

Plein Air - painting outdoors in French.

Cool colors - blue, green, violet

Focal - the point that is the center of interest

Golden - the name of the rectangle which uses a ratio of 1 to 1.618

Linear -a kind of perspective that uses a mathematical system to show depth logically and consistently

Symbolism -using color to stand for something else, when green means go & red stop.

Neutrals - black, gray, whites

Cast shadow - grounds an object with line

Shadows - used in a drawing or painting to show the direction of the light source.

3D – to create this illusion you would use three values: light, middle, & dark.

One point perspective - when the viewer sees the front of the block as a rectangle.

Two point perspective - when the viewer sees the corner of the block

Art Vocabulary

The Art Critiquing Process

Art Timeline

Review & Resources

~Our Favorite Art Links~

Artcyclopedia Top 30 Artists

~On-line Art Lessons~

Chalkboard

Learning How to Draw

~ Multimedia & Technology~

~ Digital Photography~

Complete Guide to Digital Photography

Photography & Art

~ Graphic Design~

Principles of Graphic Design

Graphic Design Principles Index

Graphic Design Principles

~ Web Designing~

Basic Web Design

Web Color Theory

Flash5 Interface Design

~ Art Lessons for Young Artists~

Kinder Art

~ Art, Design, Math & Science ~

The Architecture of the Universe

Golden Ratio, Fibonacci Sequence

The Golden Ratio

Golden Mean Section Gauge

Geometric Animations

~ On-line Exhibits~

Cloud Photo Gallery

Web Exhibits

The Noguchi Museum

Photography by Hadley Artist Jerry Gabriel

Satellite Photos - find your house

Satellite Photos - world

~ Fun Research ~

Art Dictionary

Internet Public Library - Fine Arts

Virtual Library of On-line Museums

The WWW Virtual Library

Humanities and Humanistic Studies

~ Quotes~

"Do the right thing at the right moment,

unselfishly, and for the good of all.

Collection of Quotes from Einstein

~ C o l o r T h e o r y ~

The Color of Music

The Color Cube Puzzle

~ Arts Advocacy ~

Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum

New Horizons for Learning

~ Art Education Standards~

Massachusetts DOE Frameworks

National Standards for Art Education

~ Art Teacher Resources~

Secondary Art Education Links

ArtEdWeb

Glencoe Art Textbooks Resources

Glencoe Art Ed Resources

Golden Mean Section Gauge

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