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Aesthetic
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Sensitivity to art to beauty. "Aesthetically pleasing" implies intellectual or visual beauty
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Art to beauty
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Craftsmanship
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Aptitude, skill, or quality workmanship in the use of tools and materials
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How clean it looks
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Design
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The underlying plan on which artists base their total work. In a broader sense, design may be considered synonymous with the term form.
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Synonymous with form
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Element of Art
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Line, shape, value texture, and color. The basic ingredients the artist uses seperately or in a combination to produce artistic imagery. There use produces the visual language
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Media, Medium
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The materials and tools used by an artist to create the visual elements perceived by the viewer.
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Negative Area
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The unoccupied or empty space left after the positive images have been created by the artist. Consideration of the negative areas is just as important to the organization of form as the positive area.
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Picture Plane
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The actual flat surface on which the artist executes a pictorial image in some cases, the picture plane acts merely as a transparent plane of reference to est the illusion of forms existing in a three-dimensional space.
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Positive Area
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The subject- whether representational or nonrepresentational- which is produced by the art elements (shape, line, ect) or their combination
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Composition
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The arranging and/or structuring of all the art elements, according to the principles of organization, that achieves a unified whole. Often used interchangeably with the term design.
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Pattern
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A repeating element and/or design that can produce a new set of characteristics or organization
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Achromatic Value
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Relating to difference of lightness or darkness, without regarding for hue or intensity.
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Highlight
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The proportion of an object that, from the observers positions, receives greatest amount of direct light.
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Value
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The relative degree of lightness or darkness.
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Analogous Color
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Colors that are closely related in hue. They are usually adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
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Chroma
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The purity of a hue, or its freedom from white, black, or grey. Intensity of a hue.
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Complimentary Color
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Two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel. A primary color is complimentary with a secondary color.
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Complimentary Color
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Two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel. A primary color is complimentary with a secondary color.
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Hue
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Generic name for a color.
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Complimentary Color
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Two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel. A primary color is complimentary with a secondary color.
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Hue
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Generic name for a color.
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Intermediate Color
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Color created by mixing a primary color and a secondary color.
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Monochromatic
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Having only one hue; may include the complete range of value (of one hue) from white to black.
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Primary Color
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A preliminary hue that cannot be broken down or reduced into component colors. Primary colors are the basic hues of any color system that in theory may be used to mix all other colors.
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Primary Color
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A preliminary hue that cannot be broken down or reduced into component colors. Primary colors are the basic hues of any color system that in theory may be used to mix all other colors.
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Tertiary Colors
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Colors resulting from the mixture of all three primaries, two secondary colors, or complimentary intermediates. Tertiary colors are characterized by the neutralization of intensity and hue.
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Tint
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Adding white to hue.
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Tint
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Adding white to hue.
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Shade
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Adding black to hue.
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Gradation
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A scale or a series of successive changes, stages, or degrees.
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