Sketchbook Activity

Art Movements And Styles - Symbolism - Circa 1880

Symbolism was a late 19th century movement whose artists communicated ideas through symbols instead of bluntly depicting reality. It was created as a reaction to art movements that depicted the natural world realistically, such as Impressionism, Realism, and Naturalism.

Lecture & Vocabulary

S4 - DAY TWO - Value & Shape/Form

Value: the lightness or darkness of a color; contrasts between light and dark.

- Shade: a color produced by adding black to a pigment.

- Shading: showing change from light to dark or dark to light in a picture by darkening

areas that would be shadowed and leaving other areas light. Shading is often used to

produce illusions of dimension and depth (see illustration).

Sign-Out Activity