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101 Cards in this Set
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Sublime
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If captured an immentsity so large that it could hardly be comprehneded by the imganiation
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Yin
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nuturing/passive...represented by the earth in general and by the cool moist valleys of the landscapes
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Yang
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generative and active-represented by the sun and moutains
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Yin/yang
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represents unity w/in a diversity, opp. organized in perfect harmony
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Corroboree
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a system of beliefs unlike that of most other religons in the world
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Earth work
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An enviro that is made w/ materials and made editing the visual cortex
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Reception
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external stiumli enter the nervous system through our eyes and see light
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Extraction
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retina takes in info and simplies
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Inferences
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what is processed-extracts info from from visual cortex and retina sends it
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shape
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flat- 2 dimensions-closed area line texture color
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mass
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3 dimensions takes up space can be closed/open
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organic shape
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free formed, found in nature (smithson)
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geometric shape
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squares, circles--easily identifiable measures-reg shapes
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positive space
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figure (smithson-swirl
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negative space
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ground (Smithson--water
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linear perspective
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frontal recession
were part of the composition |
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vanishing point
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point where all lines confirm
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vantage point
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off 2 the side--pushes viewer away
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the world as artist see it
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record the world
give visible/tanget form 2 ideas, philosphoes, or feelings reveal hidden or universal truths help us c the world in a new/innovative way |
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texture
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scuclptures, suface quuality of work
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impasto
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thick, bumpy, paint
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frontagge
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put a sheet of paper of texture and rob across w/ penic
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pattern
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repettive motif or design
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optical painting
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op art
an art style popular in the 60s lines and colors r used to manupule the line and the color 2 believe there is movement |
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kinetic
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art that moves
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implied texture
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(van eyck--w/ light reflection)
line created by movement(fing pointing or a glance |
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aesthetics
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pertaining 2 the appreciation of art of the beautiful
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aesthietic experience
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HOLLISTIC EXPERIENCE PROlonged @ a state of well being connectiongs belonging, inspiration
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asethic inquiry
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process of claring and answering questions about the nature
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genre painting
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in paiinutings such depecitions of everyday life and value of art
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surrealism
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style of art in the 20th century that emphasizies dream imagery chance operations and rapid thoughtless forms of notation
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impressionism
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late 19th century art movement
discontionues strokes of color meant to reproduce the effects of light |
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vanitas
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a kind of still life painting designed 2 remind us of the vanity or frirolous quiualty of the vanity of human existance
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compostion
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organized of the formal elements in a work of art
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contour line
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visible border of an object in space
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autographic line
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line distincts the artist who employs it and is therefor recognised as a kind of signature style
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analytic line
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math, precise and rationally organized
veritcal horizontal grid as oppsed 2 expressive |
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romatic line
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dramatic, emotional and subjective art arising in the eary 19th century in opposition 2 the austre discpline of neoclassism
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expressive line
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kind of line that seems 2 spring directly from the art lists emotional/feelings--llose, gestures and energetic
emptomised by curvlinear forms--oppsed 2 analytic and classic |
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public art
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art in public put so much money towards art
(tilted art) very contro and removed |
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visual literacy
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the ability to recognize and understand ideas conveyed through visible actions or images
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calligraphy.
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artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering b : the art of producing such writing
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form
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the shape and structure of something as distinguished from its material
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illusionist.
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one who produces illusory effects: as
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representation.
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ne that represents : as a : an artistic likeness or image b (1) : a statement or account made to influence opinion or action (2) : an incidental or collateral statement of fact on the faith of which a contract is entered into
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suprematism.
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an early 20th century art movement in Russia producing abstract works featuring flat geometric forms
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style
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a distinctive manner of expression
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ethnocentric.
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haracterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior
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mudra
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one of the symbolic hand gestures used in religious ceremonies and dances of India
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motif
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a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts); especially : a dominant idea or central theme
2 : a single or repeated design or colo |
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subject matter
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literal, visible image in a work of art distinguish by content connotative symbolic suggestive
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trompe l oeil
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represents that depicts the art as if it were there -eye fooling-
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naturalastic
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representational like nature natural world of art
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abstract
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formal/expressive is emphasized, stylized and simplized in but reconginable
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subjective
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full of personal feelings of emitonals AND feelings
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Objective
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free of personal emotions OR feelings-w/o bias
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Content
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the meaning of an image, beyond its overt subject matter
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Composition
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the org. of the formal elements in a work of art
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conventions
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trad. habitual conventianally associated w/ a given subject
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classical
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math, precise, and rationally org. vertical and horizontal grid
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figure ground
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term used to describe a 2 dimensional work in which the relationship b/w form/figure and its background is reversed so u can see both pictures
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PICTURE plane
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an imagenary or theoretical spatial plane corresponding to an acutual surface of painting
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axonometric projection
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a tech. 4 depicting space, -arthitecs-all lines remain parallel rather then recending to a vansihing point
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Monocular
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depth by 1 eye
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binocular
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depth by comparison of both eyes
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foreshortening
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modification of perspective to descreaee distortion resulting from the apparent visual contraction of an object or figure as it extends backwards from the picture plane at an angle approcching perpendicular
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verisimiltude
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truth-make more clear-artist changes
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chairoscuro
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in drawing and painting, the use of light and dark 2 creaste the effects of 3d modeled sufaces
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modeling
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sculpture, the shaping of a form in some plastic material-clay/plaster-hatching/chairosco
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highligh
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the spot or 1 of the spots of highest key or value in a picture
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cast shadow
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in chairoscuro the shadow cast by figure darker than the shadowed suface itself
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tenebrisim
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murky, heightend form of chairoscuro
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hatching
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an area of closey spaced parrallel lines, employed in drawings or engraving, to create shadowing or modeling
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cross hatching
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two or more set sof roughly parallel and overlapping lines, set at an angle to 1 and another in order 2 create a sense of 3d modeled space
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foreshortening
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modification of perspective to descreaee distortion resulting from the apparent visual contraction of an object or figure as it extends backwards from the picture plane at an angle approcching perpendicular
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value
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worth, monetariluy and culutrally of a work
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verisimiltude
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truth-make more clear-artist changes
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vanitas*
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still life painting designed 2 remind us of the anity of human existence
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chairoscuro
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in drawing and painting, the use of light and dark 2 creaste the effects of 3d modeled sufaces
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shade
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color or hue modified by another color=lower hue
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modeling
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sculpture, the shaping of a form in some plastic material-clay/plaster-hatching/chairosco
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tint
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color or hue modified=higher hue
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highligh
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the spot or 1 of the spots of highest key or value in a picture
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hue
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a color, basic 6, red yellow and blue are primary
red orange and violet r seccondary |
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cast shadow
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in chairoscuro the shadow cast by figure darker than the shadowed suface itself
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visual texture
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texture on the surface of a work that appears 2 be acutal but is an illusion
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tenebrisim
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murky, heightend form of chairoscuro
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hatching
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an area of closey spaced parrallel lines, employed in drawings or engraving, to create shadowing or modeling
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cross hatching
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two or more set sof roughly parallel and overlapping lines, set at an angle to 1 and another in order 2 create a sense of 3d modeled space
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value
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worth, monetariluy and culutrally of a work
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vanitas*
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still life painting designed 2 remind us of the anity of human existence
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shade
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color or hue modified by another color=lower hue
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tint
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color or hue modified=higher hue
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hue
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a color, basic 6, red yellow and blue are primary
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visual texture
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texture on the surface of a work that appears 2 be acutal but is an illusion
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Nonobjective
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no represionation 2 the real objective world
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mudra
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state of mind and specific events
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representational
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real world
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form
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pyshcial compistion of the work
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content
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meaning
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abstract
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trys 2 depict the world and reduces essential cualities
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