RectoVerso Library Workshop Robert Mouawad Private Museum

June 2012

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. ! Abstraction ! Impressionism ! Realism ! Hyperrealism ! Symbolism ! Conceptualism ! Performance ! Happening

1- Line 2- Form 3- Surface 4- Texture 5- Colour 6- Mass 7- Light 8- Space

! Horizontal !  Vertical !  Oblique !  Curve !  Wavy !  Broken !  Thin/Thick

Salwa Rawda Choucair Nadia Saikaly

Juliana Seraphim Huguette Caland

Hussein Madi Amine el Bacha

Halim Jurdak Salwa Rawda Choucair

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! Square ! Circle ! Triangle ! Rectangle ! Oblong ! Many-sided

Salwa Rawda Choucair Suha Toukan

JoumanaHusseini SamirSayegh

! Wide ! Narrow ! Long ! Short ! Similar ! Different

Lotti Adaimi Etel Adnan

Paul Guiragossian Nadia Saikaly

Gisele Rohayem Farid Haddad

! Soft ! Rough ! Solid ! Relief ! Engraved ! Actual/implied

Helen Khal Shafic Abboud

Blanche Ammoun Michel Basbous

Mohammad Kaddoura Naim Doumit

!  Hue Primary/Secondary/Tertiary ! Contrasts 1- Contrast of hue 2- Light-dark contrast 3- Cold /Warm contrast 4- Complementary contrast 5- Simultaneous contrast 6- Contrast of saturation 7- Contrast of extension

3 PRIMARY 3 SECONDARY 6 TERTIARY

Y R B

Light and Dark contrast B V

COLD-WARM Contrast

B g> R o

Cold Warm Shadow Sun Transparent Opaque Sedative Stimulant Rare Dense Airy Earthy Far Near Light Heavy Wet Dry

B W

SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST

The eye generates complementary colours if not present

SATURATION

Purity Intensity

Y / V Light-Dark R o / B g Warm-Cold R / g same brilliance

Y O R V B C 9 8 6 3 4 6

Relative Areas

Halim Jurdak Juliana Serafim

Saliba Doueihy Farid Awad

! Sphere ! Cube ! Pyramid ! Cone

! Volume ! Solid

Michel Basbous Alfred Basbous

! Direct ! Diffused ! Left ! Right ! Above ! Below ! Colour

Marie Haddad Gebran Khalil Gebran

Paul Guiragossian Yvette Achkar

Khalil Zghaib Nadia Saikali

! 2D /3D ! Positive / Negative ! Mass / Volume ! Above / Below ! Front/ Back ! Many / Few ! Scattered / Grouped ! Close / Far

Antoine Berbari Mousa Tiba

Seta Manoukian Mohammad Kaddoura

Fatima el Hage Hrair

Imad Issa Raymond Khawam

1- Medium 7- Composition 2- Method 8- Dimensions 3- Style 9- Subject 4- Style - cont. 10- Imagination 5- Design 11- Sources of Imagination 6- Relationships 12- Content

! Pencils ! Ink ! Charcoal ! Chalk ! Pastel ! Aquarelle ! Gouache ! Oil paint ! Acrylic ! Mixed Medium

Seta Manoukian Nicole Malhami Harfouche

Seta Manoukian Olga Limansky

Khaled Ramadan Salwa Rawda Choucair

! Painting ! Drawing ! Collage ! Assemblage ! Graphic Arts

Samia Osseiran Junblat Mohamad Sakr

! Representational / Non-representational

! Objective / Non-objective ! Linear / Painterly ! Realistic / Naturalistic /Idealistic ! Abstract / Expressionistic

Etel Adnan Halim Jurdak

Helen Khal Aref Rayyes

! Calligraphy ! Geometric ! Decorative ! Abstract ! Expressionist ! Impressionist

Aref Rayyes Samia O. Junblat

Gisèle Rohayem Olga Limansky

! Balance ! Harmony ! Movement ! Stillness ! Rhythm ! Symmetry

Lotti Adaimi Helen Khal

Yvette Achkar Rafic Charaf

Lulu Baasiri Nada Sehnaoui

! Composition ! Construction ! Division ! Repetition ! Distribution ! Simplification ! Light ! Shade ! Volume ! Mass

Odile M. Andraous Olga Limansky

Nada Sehnaoui Nadia Saikali

Sophy Yeramian Etel Adnan

Mona Saudi Zaven

! Pictorial Depth Pictorial Plane ! Pictorial Space ! Foreground ! Middle Ground ! Background ! Line of Force

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Farid Aouad Paul Wakim

!  E = MC2

! A/B: A+B/A

-  2 D -  3 D

! Human Body ! Environment ! Nature ! Still life ! Idea ! History ! Nonfigurative ! Decoration

! Ideas Private / Public ! Emotions Person to person / to group ! Sensations Individual / group ! Feelings Individual / group, national /universal

! Self ! Group ! Surroundings ! Environment ------- ! Deduce symbols ! Remembering ! Bring out the sub-conscience ! Self expression

! Iconography What ! Iconology Why

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