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53 Cards in this Set
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the physical appearance of a work of art - its materials, style, and composition
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form
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What a work of art is about, its subject-matter
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content
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the various connections a work of art has to the world in which it was created and in which it is viewed
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context
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the symbolism in a work of art and how it is used to interpret the work of art.
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iconography
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a space presented as a work of art to be entered, explored, experienced and reflected upon.
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installation
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art that depicts forms as they appear in the natural world
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representational
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representational art that emphasizes objective observation and accurate reproduction of the appearance of forms
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naturalistic
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art, usually paintings, starting in the 60s and 70s which showed detailed precision like a photograph and which was painted from photographs.
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photo realism
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“ fool the eye” representational art that mimics what we see so faithfully that are senses are fooled into believing it is real
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trompe l’oeil
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representational art which depicts the world as it should be ideally versus as it really looks
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idealization
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art in which forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or distorted. •
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abstract
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Art which does not represent or refer to the visible world.
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Nonrepresentational/Nonobjective
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representational art in which methods for depicting forms have been standardized and then repeated without reference to the real world model
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stylized
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non-objective art from the mid-20th century emphasizing an artist’s spontaneous expression as it flowed from the subconscious.
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abstract-expressionism
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very large stones surrounded by a circular ditch
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megalifts
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space presented a work of art to be entered explored, experienced and reflected upon.
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installation
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a shape which our mind puts together by filling in the blanks
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implied shape
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the lightness or darkness of an object
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value
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italian for light-dark. the technique of using values to make a 2 dimensional form look 3 dimensional
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charoscuro
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closely spaced parallel lines used to create dark
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hatching
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parallel lines intersecting like a checkerboard used to create darks
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cross hatching
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dots spaced close or far apart to suggest darker or lighter spaces
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stippling
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made up of the colors as refracted by a prism
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color wheel
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red yellow blue
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primary colors
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orange green and violet
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secondary colors
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a mixture of a primary color with an adjacent secondary
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tertiary colors
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name of color
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hue
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the more colors you "add" together, the closer you get to pure white, This only occurs when you're mising light rays
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addative colors
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the more colors you mix together, the more light you "subtract"
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subtractive colors
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variations of the same hue
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monochromatic harmonies
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using colors directly opposite each other on the color
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complementary
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adjacent hues on the color wheel
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analogous
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3 equidistant colors on the color wheel
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triadic
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dots of pure color that tend to mix in our eyes to produve the illusion of color mixture
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pointillism
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based on the observation that distant objects appear less distinct, paler and bluer than nearby objects due to the way moisture in the intervening atmosphere scatters light.
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atmospheric perspective
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an image that persists after the visual stimulus that first produced it has ceased.
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afterimage
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the percieved edges of a 3 dimensional form such as teh human body. lines to indicate these perceived edges in 2 dimensional art
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contour
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colors ranged along the blue curve of the color wheel
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cool colors
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in 2 dimensional images, the relationship between a shape we perceive as dominant and the background shape we perceive it against.
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figure
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the visual phenomenon whereby an elongated object projecting toward or wawy from a viewer appears shorter than its actualy length, as though compressed.
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foreshortening
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a preparatory coating of paint, usually white but sometimes colored, applied to the support for a painting or drawing
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ground
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uses diagonal lines to convey recession, but parallel lines do not converge.
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isometric perspective
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the relative purity or brightness of a color.
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intensity
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having to do with motion. incorporates real or apparent movement.
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kinetic art
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based on the observation that parallel lines appear to converge as they recede from the viewer, finally meeting at a vanishing point on the horizon
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linear perspective
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3 dimensionl form, often implying bulk, density and weight
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mass
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one in which all colors are permitted
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open palette
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the tendency of the eyes to blend patches of indivisual colors placed near one another so as to perceive a different, combined color
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optical color mixture
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the literal surface of a painting imagined as window, so that objects depicted in depth are spoken of as behind or receding from the picture plane
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picture plane
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a color darker than a hues normal value
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shade
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a 2 dimensional area having identifiable boundaries, created by lines, color or value changes, or some combination of these
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shape
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the perceptual phenomenon whereby complementary colors appear most brilliant when set side by side
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simultaneous contrast
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colors ranged along the orange curve of the color wheel
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warm colors
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