Art 1: Week 3 & 4 Vocab and Concepts

What does it mean to be a visual thinker?

• Someone who can see whats in front of them and draw it.

• Someone who can see in their mind a thing or concept and can study it from different perspectives.

• Someone who can invent things by sketching them.

Thomas Edison was a first class visual thinker. He used which of the following three techniques to enhance his visual thinking abilities?

• Drawing, analogies, and reading fantasy novels.

• Drawing, discussions, and reading engineering textbooks.

• Drawing, analogies, and discussions.

What type of experiments did Albert Einstein do that helped him theorize his ideas.

• Drawing experiments

• Thought experiments

• Electrical experiments

What ‘part” of the mind did Einstein use to better understand concepts?

• Analytical mind

• Visual mind

• Creative mind

A metaphor is

• connecting two unrelated subjects

• comparing the relationships between two objects

• visualization of two different objects

Art that represents images that are seen in the real world is called representational art.

• True

• False

Implied lines are true lines that are obviously marked as a dark line.

• True

• False

When your eyes see a line your brain immediately does 2 things: (check two boxes)

• Follow it

• Read/ Interpret it

• Look for where it starts

• Try to visualize it.

Your brain sees a vertical line as meaning

• strong, stable, and proud.

• peaceful, calm, and relaxed.

• unstable and in motion.

Your brain sees a horizontal line as meaning:

• strong, stable, and proud.

• unstable and in motion.

• peaceful, calm, and relaxed.