Art Appreciation Test 1

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aesthetics

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branch of philosophy that deals with art, its sources, its forms, and its effects on individuals and cultures

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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- displayed in art museums

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craft

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refers to specific media including ceramics, glass, jewelry, weaving, and woodworking

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kitsch

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art of a pretentious but shallow kind, calculated to have popular appeal

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tactile texture

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consists of physical surface variations that can be perceived by the sense of touch.

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visual texture

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illusionary

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shape

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2 dimensional visual entity

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Atmospheric 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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Linear perspective

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parallel lines appear to converge as they recede

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Balance

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results from placing the elements so that their visual weights seem event distributed

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Proportion

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refers to the 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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photography

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the art of creating still or moving pictures by recording light on a sensitive medium, such as a film, or an electronic sensor.

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oil paint

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allows intense colors with lustrous surfaces

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fresco

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pigment applied to wet or dry plaster

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readymades

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Mass-produced utilitarian objects transformed into a work of art by the artist’s declaration that it is so.

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site specific installations

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are usually mixed media and are designed for specific interior or exterior spaces for a definite period of time

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performance art

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a live action event that is staged as an artwork, developed as an artistic concept in the 1960s

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Workshop

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A group of assistants and/or apprentices who worked under the name of a master artist

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guild

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Workshops were organized through guilds. Groups of specialized artists and skilled craftsmen dating to medieval times. An early artist’s union!

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Academy

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An institution which replaced guilds/workshops in Europe in the 15th century. Developed in various cultures to set strict standards and guidelines for artists. Some began in France and Japan in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in order to support state-sponsored art.

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dealer

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a person whose business is to buy artwork directly from the artist and then sell it, or take artwork on consignment

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gallery

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a large room in which items of art are displayed in businesses or museums

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patron

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a person who supports the artists and the arts

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collaboration

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An arrangement in which two or more artists work together on one artwork

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volume

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3 dimensional entity, in contrast to 2 dimensional shape

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formal elements

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line, shape/volume, color, size, light/value, texture, pattern, space, time/motion, chance/spontaneity

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Chiaroscuro

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the use of various tones to create the illusion of volume