Art Appreciation

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the role of the artist including key activities of artists, commonalities that artists share, and the role of active seeing in art.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe architecture as an art form, including use of Greek columns, ancient Roman arches, skyscraper construction, and green architecture.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the relationship between ancient art and religion, including early Christian and Byzantine art, the rise of Islam, Romanesque art, and Gothic art.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe ancient art forms, including the earliest art, Mesopotamian cultures, Egyptian civilization, India and China, Aegean civilizations, Greek art, Roman art, and Asian art.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe art from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the Rococo, China and Europe, neoclassicism, Romanticism, the impact of western culture, and post- impressionism,.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe art found in the Renaissance through the Baroque, including the Renaissance rebirth, African and Portuguese cultures, mannerism, and defining characteristics of baroque art and architecture.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe art found in the twentieth century to the present, including cubism, the fauves, German expressionism, futurism, Dada and surrealism, American modernism, abstract expressionism, pop art, and minimalism.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain visual art, including the difference between subject matter and content, the meaning of representational art, a description of the form of an artwork, and iconography.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe drawing as an art, including the definition of a medium, the technique known as metal point, characteristics of wet media, and drawing as an innovative medium.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe how formal elements influence art, including the elements of texture, pattern, time, and motion.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the role of color and light in art, including the rules of atmospheric and aerial perspective, the contributions Sir Isaac Newton made to color, a complementary color scheme, and how local color differs from perceptual color.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the medium of paint as art, including how buon fresco differs from fresco secco, how mixed media is created, and how watercolor paintings are made.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain art that comes from still, motion-picture, and video cameras, including photogenic drawing, the Zone System, editing in film, and video art.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the medium of printmaking, including the definition of a print, relief processes in printmaking, intaglio processes in printmaking, and how lithographs are made.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe art sculpture as a three-dimensional media, including relief sculpture, sculpture in the round, subtractive processes, additive processes, the casting process, and assemblage.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how art is valued, including how the public receives innovative artwork, the purpose of art in public places, and the activist direction in public art.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the idea of space in the context of art, including how shape differs from mass, negative spaces, three-dimensional spaces, two-dimensional spaces, oblique projection, and axonometric projection.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe fine craft media, including ceramics, glass, weaving, and using gold for crafts.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain art design as a profession, including the origin of design as a profession, defining features of art deco, De Stijl, and postmodernism in design.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the most fundamental element of art known as a contour line, including horizontal and vertical lines, expressive.