Art 101

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Hue

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Color

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Tint

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Add white to a color

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Shade

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Add black to a color

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Tone

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Add black and white to a color

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Analogous

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Three colors that are next to each other

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Complementary

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Two colors that are opposite to each other

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Primary Colors

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Red, yellow, blue

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Secondary Colors

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Orange, green, purple

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Tertiary colos

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Red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-purple, red-purple

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Impasto

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Thick paint that provides texture

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Chiaroscuro

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Strong contrasts between light and dark

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Implied lines

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Lines created by colors, textures, or shapes that guide the eye

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Anamorphic

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Distorted projection or perspective

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Line of Sight

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An imaginary line that extends straight forward, perpendicular to the viewer's eyes

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Contour

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Lines which travel along contours or objects, creating the illusion of dimension

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Vanishing Point

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Area on the horizon where parallel lines converge

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Aesthetics

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Philosophical study of beauty and taste

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Atmospheric Perspective

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The influence of earth’s atmosphere on objects in the distance

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Scale

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Size of an object in relationship to another object

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Linear Perspective

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A principle in two-dimensional art used to create the illusion of three dimensions

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Tactile Texture

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Actual feel of a surface

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Proportion

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Size of part of an object in relationship to the whole object

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Visual Texture vs Actual Texture

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Texture created by illusion vs Actual feel of a surface

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Biomorphic

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Models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes

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Ergonomics

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Study of how humans work

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Bauhaus

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German school of design

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Hierarchical Proportion

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Artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork

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Pointillism

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Technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.

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Symmetrical

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Made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis

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Asymmetrical

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Not symmetrical

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Secco Fresco

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Painting applied to dry plaster

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Fresco

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Painting on plaster

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Encaustic

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Wax painting

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Tempera

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Egg painting

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True Fresco

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Painting on fresh plaster

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Intaglio

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Engraving

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Silk-Screen

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Ink painting using a mesh

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Lithography

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Stone printing

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Relief

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Relief printing is a process where protruding surface faces of the printing plate or block are inked.

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Camera Obscure

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Dark Room

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Silver Nitrate

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Chemical that darkens in light

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Gargoyl

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Water spout statue

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The New York School

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Abstract expressionist painting

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Grotesque

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Stature that is not park of a down spout

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Post and Lintel

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Lintel as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns

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Crica

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Approximately

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Salon des Refuses

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An exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official ParisSalon in 1863

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Pediment

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Triangular top of a roman building

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Frieze

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Small sculptural decoration

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Column

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Pillar

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Capital

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Top of a column

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Corinthian

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Fancy capital

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Doric

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Basic capital

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Ionic

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Curly capital

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Kore

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Female

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Kouros

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male

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Contrapposto

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A human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs.

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Renaissance

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Art which occurred between the years c. 1150 and c. 160

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Sfumato

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Allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another

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Obelisk

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Tall stone spike

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Megalith

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Huge rock

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Mastaba

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Shorter early pyrimid

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Giornata

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One days work on a fresco

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Maquette

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A small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture

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Fin de Siecle

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End of a cycle

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Trompe L'oeil

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Trick the eye

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Readymades

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Ordinary objects that the artist selected and modified

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Armory Show

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1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art

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Fauves

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Early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color

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Combines

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Artwork that incorporates various objects into a painted canvas surface

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Avant Garde

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Advance Guard, ahead of its time

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Salon

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Official art exhibition

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Kitsch

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Tacky

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Federal Arts Project

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Visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration