1. Making Art

2. PROCESS The series of activities and decisions that lead to a finished artifact.

4. Most contain common activities

5. Conceiving of a work

6. Deciding its purpose

8. Commercial expression

13. NONREPRESENTATIONAL (NONOBJECTIVE) ART Artifacts that use colors, textures, shapes, and brushstrokes to express thoughts and feelings in themselves rather that to make representational artifacts.

14. REPRESENTATIONAL ART Artifacts that render figures, objects, or scenes as they appear in the real or visible world and as they might appear in the imagined world, with varying degrees of accuracy, distortion, and stylization.

24. Subject matter and Meaning

35. Medium as Artform

43. Line

44. Texture

45. Shape

46. Mass

47. Volume

48. Color

49. Time

50. Design principles include:

51. Balance

52. Emphasis

53. Patterns

55. Internal

56. Artist’s

57. Social

59. CONTEXT VIEWING CONTEXT: Where and how an artifact is placed for viewing. INTERNAL CONTEXT: The juxtaposition of parts within a whole artifact and the meanings they evoke through proximity to one another. ARTIST’S CONTEXT: The life history, experiences, and time influencing an artist’s work. SOCIAL CONTEXT: The time and place in which an artifiact is mad. ART HISTORICAL CONTEXT: The artifact in relation to all other artifacts past and present.

68. MEANINGS Expressive content of an artifact and the artifact’s inferred implications.

70. Subject Matter

71. Medium

72. Form

73. Contexts

74. Meanings

77. SUBJECT MATTER + MEDIUM + FORM + CONTEXTS = MEANING