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Aesthetics
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(Nature) Branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, beauty and meaning of art and our response to it
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Abstraction
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(Ideas or concepts) Universal ideas of essence of concept
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Megalith
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A large massive stone
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Genre
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(Everyday life) Art that depicts casual moments of everyday life and its suroundings
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Vanitas
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(Vanity) Fleeting nature of earthly life
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Figure/Ground
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(Space) The space around and part of a statue
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Negative Space
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No space between legs and between arms and body
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Positive Space
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Has space between legs and between arms and body
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Monolithic
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One
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Representational
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(Naturalistic, Real) Resembles forms in the natural world, "window on the world"
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Trompe l'oeil
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Representational. "Fool the eye", mimics the opeical experience so faithfully that it may be mistaken for reality
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Earthwork
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(Of the Earth) Work constructed outdoors from natural materials
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Nonrepresentational
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(Not real) Contains no reference to the natural world as we see it
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Form
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(Media, style, composition) The physical appearance of a work of art. The way it looks, including its materials (media), style and composition.
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Style
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Characteristics that we can identify as constant, recurring, or coherent traits
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Content
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(What's inside the artwork) Subject matter or message
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Iconography
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The identification, description and interpretation of subject matter. Requires knowledge of a specific time, beliefs or culture
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Context
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(What's going on outside the artwork) Knowledge of artist, time and culture
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Triptych
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(3) A three-paneled painting
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Installation
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Work created for a specific space and time. May involve ceiling, walls or floor
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Traditional Eastern Aesthetics
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Birds eye view, grow larger as they go back, cropped
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Traditional Western Aesthetics
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Optically correct, grow smaller as they go back, large view
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Line
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Path of moving dots. Implies direction and movement
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Shape
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(2 Dimensinal) Enclosed line. Identifiable boundaries, created by lines, color or value chages. Also, negative space
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Mass/Form
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(3D) Depth, height and width. Also positive space
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Figure-Ground Reversal
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The relationship between a shape we see as dominant (the figure) and the background shape we see as negative (the ground)
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Figure
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Positive shapes
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Ground
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Negative shapes
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Naturalistic
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(Representational or realistic) Closely resmebles the the form it portrays
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Realism
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(Representational or realistic) Portraying forms in the natural world in a highly faithful manner
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Stylized
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(Representational) Art in which methods for depiciting forms have become standardized and can be repeated without further observation of the real world model. Using art for inspiration of art
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Composition/design
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The organization of lines, shapes, colors and other art elements in a work of art
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Contour/Outline
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(Implied) Perceived edges of a 3D form such as the human body in 2D form
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Hatching/Cross-hatching
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Closely space parallel lines that mix optically to suggest values. Creates light and dark to give a 3D effect (chiaroscuro)
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Chiaroscuro
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(light-dark) In 2D, representational art, creates light and dark values to give a 3D effect. Contrasts of light and shadow
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Stippling
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(Dots) A pattern of closely spaced dots or small marks used to create a sense of 3D
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Value
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The relative lightness or darkness of a hue, or of a neutral varying from black to white
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Color
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Hue
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Complementary colors
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(Opposites on color wheel) Hues that intensify each other when next to each other, but dull each other when mixed
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Primary colors
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(Red, yellow and blue) A hue that cannot be created by mixing other hues together
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Secondary colors
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(Orange, green and violet) A hue created by mixing 2 primary colors together
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Pointillism
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(Points) A painting techniqe by which you place pure colors in regular, small points that blend together optically at a distance
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Texture
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Surface quality
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Impasto
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A think application of paint
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Pattern
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Regular repetition
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Space
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2 or 3 dimensional
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Foreshortening
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The visual phenomenon whereby an elongated object projecting toward or away from a viewer appears shorter than its actual length, as though compressed
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Pigment
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Powdered coloring material
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Binder
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Substance that holds pigments together
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Calligraphy
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Beautiful writing
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Gesture
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Calligraphic lines that suggest movement
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Conceptual
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Focus on the idea
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Mixed media
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Art employing more than one medium
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Medium
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The material in a work of art or liquid that holds pigment
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Fresco
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Pigment and damp plaster
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Impasto
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Thick application of paint
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Collage
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Actual objects glued to a surface
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Prints
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An indirect process that results in multiples or editions that are each unique, original works of art
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Registration
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Allows for multiple colors to be added
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Camera obscura
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Originally invented as a drawing tool, linear perspective
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Daguerreotyoe
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One of the earliest forms of a photograph. Fixed on a copper plate
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Definition
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The visual presentation of information
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Goal
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Communication of a specific message to a specific group of people
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Craft
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(Functional) Expert work done by hand
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Contraposto
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(Natural gait) A pose that suggests the potential for movement, places the weight on one foot, producing s-curves.
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relief
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Anything that projects from a background
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Low-relief/Bas-relief
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(Coin) Figures project minimally
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High-relief (haut-relief)
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Figures project substantially from the background, often by half their full depth or more
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Abstract
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Distorts, exaggerates or simplifies the natural world to provide essence or universal concept
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Media
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Materials used
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Composition
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The organization of design elements and principles
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Surrealism
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Familiar things assemebled in unfamiliar ways
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Contour
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Outline
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Color
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Hue, name of the color
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Value
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Relative lightness or darkness
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Intensity
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Relative purity of a color
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Analogous
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Adjacent hues on the color wheel
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Triadic
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3 equidistant colors on the color wheel
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Texture
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Actual or implied
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Symbols
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Convey info or ideas for all languages, universal
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Logos or trademarks
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Symbols that represent the company or its product. Gains meaning through effective advertising
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Additive
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Modeling, assembling or adding to in order to create art
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Subtractive
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Carving or taking away from to create art
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Atmospheric perspective
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The observation that distant objects appear less distinct, paler and bluer than nearby objects due to the waymoisture in the atmosphere scatters light
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Linear perspective
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An observation that parallel lines appear to converge as they recede from the viewer, finally meeting at a vanishing point on the horizon. Relies on a fixed viewpoint
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Isometric perspective
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Uses diagonal lines to convey recession, but parallel lines do not converge. Principally used in East Asian art which is not based in a fixed viewpoint
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Kinetic art
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Has to do with motion. Incorporates real or apparent movement
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"In the round"
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When you can see all sides of a statue, front, back and sides.
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Proportion/scale
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Size relationships between parts of a whole, or between 2 or more items perceived as a unit. Or between an object and its surroundings
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Focal point
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The center of interest of an artwork
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True or False: Themes and purposes may differ within a work of art
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True
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True or False: A work of art may only reflect one theme.
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False, A work of art may reflect more than one theme
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