Art Appreciation

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Shape

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Object (limited by height and width, limited by two-dimension?)

Expanse within the outline of a two-dimensional area or within boundaries of three-dimensional object.

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Geometric shapes

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Circles, triangles, squares.

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Organic shapes

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Irregular, curving, rounded

Shapes found in nature.

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During the modern period, (1800-1970) art began to be considered as primarily an expression of what?

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Expression of the artist

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Prehistory-1800 art is an reflection of what?

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Art is reflection of culture

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1970-current (Post-Modern) art is a reflection of what?

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Reflection of the artist

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Moder art is

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Is the objectification of feeling

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Hue

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Particular wavelengths, colors of the spectrum: yellow, green, blue all hues

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Value

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Relative lightness or darkness. Or gradation (Adding black to a hue produces a shade).

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Saturation

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Purity of a hue or color

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Primary colors

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Red, blue, green. (cannot be produced by mixing colors.

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Secondary colors

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Mixture of primary colors

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Intermediate/tertiary hues

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Created when mixing primary and secondary colors. (ex: yellow-orange, blue-green).

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Complementary colors

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Colors directly across from each other on color wheel

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Monochromatic color scheme

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Variations in value and intensity of singular hue

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Analogous color schemes

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Colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel

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Unity

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Appearance or condition of oneness

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Variety

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Diversity, counters unity to avoid sameness

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Pattern

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Repetitive ordering of design elements

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Balance

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Symmetrical (formal) asymmetrical (informal). Interplay between opposing forces of unity and variety.

A way of combining elements to add a feeling of equilibrium or stability to a work of art

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Actual lines

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A practical line in a piece of art

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Implied line

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Something like a leading line. Made up by structures around implied line

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What do diagonal lines imply?

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Motion

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What do horizontal and vertical lines provide?

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Stability or stillness

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Scale

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Size relation of one thing to another

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Proportion

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Size relationship of parts to a whole

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Representational art

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Depicts appearance of things: when the depiction is human form it's figurative art

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Trumpet l'oeil

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"fool the eye" illusionistic art

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Abstract art

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The essence of an object or idea.

Has no reference to objects, or represents objects in a simplified, distorted, or exaggerated way

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Nonrepresentational/Nonobjective art

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Not meant to be representational at all.

Purely visual

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Form

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What we see (components, materials) an element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume, includes height, width, AND depth (like a cube, sphere, or pyramid)

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Content

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Is the meaning of a form

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Iconography

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Symbolic meaning of signs, subject and images

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Iconology

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Cultural context

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Hatching

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Rows of parallel lines to suggest shadow or volume

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Cross-hatching

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Gives value and shading

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Contour hatching

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Sculptal mass, volumes, perceived 3 dimensional boundaries

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Chiaroscuro

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Value gradations from light to dark

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Tooth

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Roughness (of paper) gives texture

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Line

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A path traced by a moving point

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Figure

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A shape (positive shape) we detach and focus on

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Ground

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(negative shape) Surrounding visual elements the figure stands out from

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Implied shape

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Retractive shapes that provide a new shape when looked at as a whole

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Stippling

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Areas of dots average out through optical mixing into values

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Triadic color scheme

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Harmonies are composed of three colors equidistance from each other on the color wheel

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Pointillism

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Thousands of tiny dots of pure color next to each other to form an image

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Space

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An element of art where positive and negative space are defined and depth is achieved.

Combining the dynamic visual element that interacts with the lines and shapes and colors and textures of a work of art to give them definition

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Vanishing point

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Forms seem to diminish in size as they recede from us, parallel lines receding into the distance seem to conversion till they meet at a point on the horizon line where they disappear