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64 Cards in this Set
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Naturalistic
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Contains recognizable imagery that is depicted very much as seen in nature
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Representational
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Contains entities from the world in recognizable form
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Idealized
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Natural imagery is modified in a way that strives for perfection within the bonds of the values and aesthetics of a particular culture
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Expressive or expressionist
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Those that communicate heightened emotions and often a sense of urgency or spontaneity
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Classical
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Indicates a judgement of excellence, such as a classic work of art with widely recognized outstanding qualities
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Surreal
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Bizarre of fantastic arrangement of images or materials, as if tapping into the workings of the unconscious mind
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Nonobjective
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Contains imagery that is completely generated by the artist. It focuses on interrelation between colors and shapes, and nothing else beyond what a pserson sees while looking at the painting
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Abstracted
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May or may not be recognizable, but it has been derived from reality by distoring, enlarging, and/or dissecting objects or figures from natures
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Egyptian
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Their culture was very unchanging so art was the same. Formal for high power and lower down art was informal. They stronglly believed in afterlife, pyramids
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Ka
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Part of spirit that lived on
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Ancient Greek
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18-21 was the ideal age. Athletic bodies, appreciated a strong healthy body, lots of competitions
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Pointillism
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Seurat- "La Grande Jatte"- Painted with small dots of intense colors laid side by side
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Agitated brush strokes
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Flowers
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Frida Kahlo
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"Self Portrait with Monkey"- expressive
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Impressionism
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Mostly outdoors to capture the subtle qualities of light and reflection
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Fine art
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Western category of refined objects considered to be among the supreme cultural achievements of the human race. It is believed to transcend average human works and may be produced only by the best artists with unique sensibilities
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Popular culture
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In Western nations consists of magazines, comics, television, tourist art, advertising, folk art, tattoos, customed cars, graffiti, video games, posters, websites, calendars, greeting cards. It is more accessible, inexpensive, entertaining, commercial, political, naive, colorful, or touristy than fine art
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Kitsch
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Not the best taste, old 70s ish. They display an emotional appeal that is generalized, superficial, and sentimental. It is the opposite of an original experience, a unizuely felt emotion, or a thoughtful, introspective moment, and is often used in avertising and in political propoganda
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Craft
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Refers to specific media, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, weaving, and woodworking. Usually involves making objects rather than images or image manipulation, although craft may involve surface decoration
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Line
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A moving point, having length and no width. In art, a line usually has both length and width, but length is the mosre important dimension
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Gesture lines
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Not only depict the physical world but also express the artist's inner beigns. They express emotion and some are presice and controlled, delicate or wavering, sweeping, broad, or vigorous. Others are blunt, rough, or heavy, as if the result of a gouging, jabbing action
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Outline
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Can show shape which is a two dimensional entity
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Contour lines
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Mark the outer edges of a three-dimensional object, allowing artists to eliminate internal detail but retain recognition of the object
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Hatching
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parallel lines to produce towns or different areas of gray
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Crosshatching
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Hatching done in layers
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Light
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Electromagnetic energy that, in certain wave lengths, stimulates the eyes and brain; Creates shadows that helps define contours and create the illusion of mass
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Value
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Rangse from white to black with gray tones inbetween; can also be associated with color; lighter or darker values of the color
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Artists
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Manipulate gradations in values to create the appearance of light on objects
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Chiraoscuro
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light-dark gradations that create the illusion of a 3-d on a flat surface
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Hue
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The pure state of color and is that color's name (red, blue, etc.)
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Value
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Lightness and darkness
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Tint
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White added to a color
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Intensity (or chroma or saturation)
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Brightness or dullness of a color. Neutral colors are very low intensity
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Primary colors
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Combine to produce the largest number of new colors. Red, blue, yellow
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Secondary colors
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Result form mixing two primary colors. Orange, green, purple
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Complimentaries of primary colors
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Blue- Orange
Red- Green Yellow- Purple |
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Analogous colors
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Those that are similar in appearance, especially those in which we can see related hues, such as yellow, yellow-orange, and orange. They are next to eachother on the color wheel
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Complimentary colors
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Opposites of each other, and, when mixed, give a dull result. Red and green
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Warm colors
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Colors associated with the sun and fire, such as yellows, reds, and oranges
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Texture
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Refers to the surface characteristscs, and may be tacile or visual
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Tacile Texture (actual)
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Consists of physical surface or variations that can be perceived by the sense of touch
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Visual (implied or simulated)
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Illusionary. Manipulated the paint to create the illusions of lustrious satin, bristly hay, and fluffy clouds, even though the paiting surface is flat
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Pattern
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The regular repetition of a visual form
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Shape
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A two-dimensional visual entity
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Volume
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A three-dimensional eneity, in contrast to a two-dimensional shape. Has mass
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Geometric shapes
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Circle, square, triange, hexagone, and teardrop
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Organic or biomorphic
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Resmeble living beings
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Overlapping
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The illusion of deep sace on the flat surface of two-dimensional art
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Position
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Foreground- shapes are bold and heavily shaded, versus the light, linear handling of the distant landscape
Distant- Landscape is less colorful and less detailed |
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Size
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Smaller seems farther away
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Atmosperhic perspective
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Refers to the light, bleached out, fuzzy handling of distant forms to make them seem far away
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Massacio's The Holy Trinity
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The first known to use scientific linear perspective
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Time
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The period that viewers study and absorb the message and formal qualities of an artwork
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Motion
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rhymetic repetion of abstracted forms in walkin gpattern and the descending arrangement of elements from the upper left to the lower right
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Chance/Improvision/Spontaneity
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Due to uncontrollable factors such as atmospheric conditions at the moment
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Unity
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The quality of overall cohesion within an artwork
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Variety
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The element of difference within an art work. They would seem on the surface to be mutually exclusive qualities, but, in fact, they coexist in all artworks, evoking in viewers a fascination that makes them keep coming back and looking
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Emphasis
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The creation of one or more focal points in an artwork
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Rhythm
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The repetition of carefully placed elements separated by interval. Tese beats move the viewers' eye through the composition in jerky, smooth, fast, or slow motions
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Proportion
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Refers to teh size of one part in relation to another within a work of art, or the size of one part in relation to the whole
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Scale
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Teh size of something in relation to what we assume to be "normal"
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Content
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Involves the meaning or ideas associated with a work of art. It involves the message that is delivered by the artwork
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Aesthetics
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The branch of philosphy that deasl with art, its sources, its forms, and its effects on individuals and cultures
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