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- dominance
- principle of visual organization where certain elements are more important than others.
- chiaroscuro
- distribution of light and dark in a picture
- volume
- occupied space
- Abstraction
- nonrepresentational work arranged simply to satisfy artists' need from organization
- futurism
- submovement, based upon unterest in time, motion, and rhythm.
- casting
- sculptural technique pouring liquid into a mold.
- proportion
- comparative relationships between parts as a whole as to size
- Addition
- sculptural term meaning building up.
- equivocal space
- the viewer may see more than one relationship between art elemtents.
- biomorphic shape
- Irregular shape ressembling live organisms
- monochromatic
- only one hue
- Additive color
- adding red, blue, green = white
- environmental art
- form of art, that surrounds the view like an environment
- composition
- arrangement of all art elements, achieving a whole
- radial
- emanating froma central location
- Abstract Art
- One major form of nonrepresentational art of the 20th century.
- line (actual)
- path of a moving point made by a tool
- assemblage (art style)
- technique bringing a 3-D nature object to original position.
- tactile
- quality refering to sense of touch
- amorphous shape
- shape without clarity
- hatching
- repeated strokes of an art tool to create clustered lines.
- closed-value composition
- composition in which values are limited by the edges
- subtraction
- sculptural term for cutting away of materials
- Abstract texture
- texture derived from the apperearance of an actual surface but rearranged.
- descriptive art
- art based upon actual appearances.
- balance
- sense of equilibrium through work achieving unity.
- mobile
- 3-dimensional moving sculpture
- Abstract expressionism
- nonrepresentatinal style that stresses emotional meaning.
- intuitive space
- illusion of space created by manipulating certain speace producing devices
- asymmetry
- without symmetry
- shape
- area that stands out b/c space around
- aesthetics
- theory of the artisitic, "beautiful"
- happenings
- form of participatory art where artis and viewers were engaged.
- color-field painting
- hard edge painting, involving the viewer psychologically.
- repetition
- used of smae visual effects a number of times in a composition
- accent
- to give emphasis to an element of composition bringing more attention.
- gestalt
- an organized whole in experience.
- constructivism
- total abstraction as the new realism in art in the 1920
- shadow,shade,shading
- darker value giving the illusion is turned away by light source
- Actual Shape
- positive areas
- design
- unplying a plan an artist has for a piece of work.
- cast shadow
- dark areas found on a surface
- representational art
- type of art where the subject is presented through visual art elements
- academic
- art stressing standards.
- glyptic
- quality of art material that can be carved or incraved.
- atmospheric (aerial) perspective
- illusion of deep space in graphic works
- post-painterly abstraction
- hard edge and color field painters related to geometric abstraction
- analogous colors
- colors related in hue.
- expression
- manifestation through artistic form of a quality of meaning.
- chroma
- the intensity of hue
- plastic (art, line, shapem color, space, value, etc.)
- 3-dimensional art forms architecture, scultpture, and ceramics.
- Actual texture
- surface experienced through touch.
- installations
- interior or exterior settings of media created by an artist
- color tetrad
- any organization on a clor wheel forming a triangle
- simultaneity
- in art, the separate views representing points in time and space.
- Allover pattern
- repetition of design units over an entire surface.
- fantastic art
- artistic freedom from the emotional side of creativity.
- bauhaus
- german school of architecture
- symmetry
- duplication on both sides of the central axis
- Action/Gestural Painting
- Abstract-expressionist style, carrying a message without reference.
- golden section
- ratio of visual harmony 8:13
- collage
- artist crates the image by adhering real materials to the picture
- naturalism
- a description of things visuallly produced
- Achromatic
- differences of light and dark.
- graphic art
- 2-dimensional art forms; drawing, painting, and making prints
- calligraphy
- elegant, decorative writing.
- op art
- 1950, form of abstract art directed on psychology of sight
- approximate symmetry
- similar imagery on either side of the central axis.
- kinetic art
- art involving an element of mechanical movement
- dada
- antiart, antieverything movement resulting from the effect of world war I.
- mass
- physical bulk of a solid body of material
- art
- formal expression of a conceived image.
- de Stijl
- dutch form of art feature the primary colors in a balanced structure or lines and rectangles.
- closure
- development of groupings
- orthographic drawing
- graphic representation of 2-dimensional views of an object
- contour
- line that defines the outermost limits of an object
- economy
- distallation of the image to the basic essentials for clarity of presentation.
- concept
- generalization
- scale
- association of size relative to a constant standard
- cross-contour
- line that defines the surface of an object
- four-dimensional space
- imaginative treatment to form giving a sense of motion
- conceptual art
- art conveying a message
- space
- measurable distance between points or images
- curvilinear
- stressing the use of curved lines
- local (objective) color
- color seen in the objective world
- content
- essential meaning of a work of art
- modeling
- sculptural technique of shaping pliable material
- color triad
- 12 color wheel is made of the primary triad, secondary triad, and mix of remaining primaries.
- implied line
- missing portion of a line implied to continue.
- atectonic
- considerable amounts of space
- neutralized color
- color that has been grayed
- conceptual preception
- creative vision derived from the imagination.
- isometric projection
- drawing system where 3-dimensional oibject is presented 2-dimensionally.
- cubism
- creating the effect of a third dimension, on a two dimensional surface.
- symbolism
- 1880, stating that he senses are inseoarable from human emotion and people are objects
- classical
- art forms characterized by a clear intellectual approach.
- illustration
- practice that stresses story situations
- craftsmanship
- quality of owrkmanship in tools or materials
- performance art
- type of art dervived from happenings in which the action is performed by a signle artist
- decorative (ast, line, shape, color, space, etc.)
- emphasizing the two-dimensional nature of an artwork.
- harmony
- quality of visual elements
- sculpture
- shaping 3-dimensional materials
- implied shape
- shape suggesting the visual appearance of a shape not existing
- tectonie
- quality of simple massiveness
- golden mean
- perfect proportions that avoid extremes.
- negative area
- empty space left over from positive elements
- highlight
- portion of an object that recieves the greatest amount of light
- pictorialism
- belief in the possibility of personal expression and beauty in art and science in photographic imagery
- inventive texture
- created texture whos only source is the imagination of the artist
- subsitution
- sculpture, replacing a medium with another
- expressionism
- form of art, where the desire to express what is felt rather than percieved
- photogravure
- process of painting a photographic image from an etched plate
- intermediate color
- color made by mixing a primary and secondary color
- picture frame
- boundary of picture plane
- illusionism
- imitationof visual reality on a surface
- neoclassicism
- 1700, became offical art of the french government.
- fractional representation
- device used creating several spatial aspects of the the same subject and image.
- style
- artist expressive use of media for indivduality
- low-key color
- color w/ value level middle gray + darker
- technique
- skill which artist uses tools and materials for an expressive effect.
- impressionism
- form of realistic painting based on human vision.
- subtractive color
- sensation of color produced when wavelengths of light are reflected back and others have been subtracted
- local value
- relative of light and dark of a surface
- realism
- style of art retaining the basic impressiona of visual actuality without extreme details.
- high-key value
- value w/ a level of middle gray
- planar (shape)
- having to do with planes
- genre
- subject matter that concern everyday life.
- modern art
- 1880 to 1960, nonrepresentational organized kinds of modern art
- high-key color
- color w/ value level of middle gray
- subjective (art, shape, color, etc)
- derived from mind reflecting emotion
- hue
- determined by specfic wavelength of the color in a ray of light.
- rhythm
- sense of movement achieved by repetition
- elements of art
- line, shape, value, texture, and color- the basic ingredents.
- post-impressionism
- artist restoring formal organization, lost in contemporary art
- fauves (fauvism)
- 1905, Paris France began, expressionistic art but more decorative
- papier colle
- technique where scraps of paper are placed to enrich areas
- interpenetration
- movement of planes, object or shapes through each other.
- relief sculpture
- utilizing relatively shallow depth to establish images.
- form
- organization of visual elements developing unity
- minimalism
- abstract forms reduced to the barest essentials that reveal little variartion in use of elements
- geometric shape
- shape that appears to be related to geometry.
- nonobjective, nonrepresentational (Art)
- type of art entirly imaginative
- intensity
- saturation of a hue
- pattern
- any artistic design
- infinite space
- concept where the picture frame acts as a window
- romanticism
- visual art where a romantic spirit is the point of view
- kinetic assemblage
- assemblage that moves
- positive areas
- where art elements produce the subject
- linear perspective (geometric)
- system used to develop 3-dimensional images on a 2-dimensional surface.
- untiy
- ratio between harmony and variety
- realist photography
- opposed to pictorials, believing the honest use of materials and technology.
- low-key value
- value w/ level of middle gray + darker
- movement
- eye travel of a work of art
- manipulation
- scultptural technique of shaping pliable materials by hands or tools
- perspective
- graphic system used to create an illusion of 3-dimensional images
- primitive art
- art of people w/ a tribal social order
- principles of organization
- 7 principles, creating unity; harmony, varitey, balance, proportion, dominance, movement, and economy.
- patina
- coor pigments applied to sculptural surface
- pop art
- 1960, form of art using mundane products of mass popular culture.
- rectilinear shape
- shape with boundries consisting of straight lines
- voids
- areas lacking positive substances, consists of negative space
- picture place
- actual flat surface executes a pictorial image
- oblique projection (perspective)
- technical drawing where 3-dimensional object is presented 2-dimensionally.
- post-modernism
- 1970, art reaction to a worsened world.
- pigments
- color substance that give color property
- neutrals
- inclusion of color wavelengths that produce white, absence black.
- trompe l'oeil
- copies nature so exact that may be depicted as natural forms
- neo-abstraction
- hard core artist who remain abstract
- moments of force
- direction and degree of energy implied by art elements
- tertiart color
- color resulting from mixture of 3 primaries.
- value pattern
- organization of values that contol compositional movement
- organic unity
- componets of art are so vital that they maybe liken to a living organism.
- paint quality
- use of oaint to enrich a surface through texture
- 2-dimensional
- pocessing height and weight
- objective (art, shape)
- type of art or shape based on physical actualities.
- split-complements
- color and the 2 colors on either side of the complement.
- primary color
- basic hues in any solor system used to mix all other colors
- motif
- designed units in repetition for a total composition to make dominant
- optical perception
- seeing where mind has no other fuction but the natural one
- transparency
- disant image seen through a nearer one
- neo-expressionism
- 1980, psychic emotionalism of early 20th century expressionsim
- medium, media
- material and tools used to create visual elements
- plane
- area having height and width
- silhouette
- area bounded by contours of an object
- open-value composition
- composition where values cross shape boundries.
- shallow space
- illusion of limited depth
- simultaneous contrast
- 2 different colors come into direct contact, intenifies the difference
- secondary color
- mixture of 2 primaries
- 3-dimensional
- illusion of depth, as well as height width.
- surrealism
- emphazing fantasy, revealed through the subconscious mind
- tension
- forces of art elements puching or pulling effecting balance.
- texture
- surface character of a material through touch
- tenebrism
- technique in painting emphasizing chiaroscuro.
- value
- relative degree of light and dark
- variety
- differences changing the elements on composition adding interest.
- sepectrum
- band individual colors that result when white l;ight breaks through