AP Humanities vocabulary
Terms
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- form
- object's shape and structure, color, texture, etc. in 2d or 3d
- composition
- organization of forms in an artwork
- material
- substance used to create and shape art forms and the tools used
- technique
- processes artist uses and the distinctive personal wasy they handle the materials.
- line
- path of a pt. moving in space; line of sight (visual axis); or placement of a plane.
- hue
- property giving a color its name
- value/tonality
- degree of lightness or darkness
- intensity/saturation
- purity of a color, brightness or dullness
- space
- the bounded or boundless container of objects
- mass
- bulk, density and weight of matter in space
- volume
- the space that mass organizes, divides or encloses
- perspective
- reduction of figure size, convergance of diagonal lines, and blurring of distant forms
- foreshortening
- representing bodies at angles - the body appears to contract as it extends back in space
- proportion
- the relationships (in terms of size) of parts of persons, buildings or objects