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Art Appreciation

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Basic elements of Art
Line Shape Space Color (including Light and Value) Texture Time Motion
Visual elements (plastic)
Elements such as line, shape, color, and texture, that are used by artists to create imagery. also termed plastic elements
Language of art
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Design
The combination of the visual elements of art according to such priniciples as balance and unity.
Style
A characteristic manner or mode of artistic expression or design.
Chiaroscuro
An artistic technique in which subtle gradations of value create the illusion of rounded three-dimensional forms in space; also termed modeling (from Italian for "light-dark".
Cubism
A twentieth-century style developed by Picasso and Braque that emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas, characterized by multiple views of an object and the reduction of form to cubelike essentials.
Organic Shape
A shape characteristic of living things and thus appearing soft, curvilinear, and irregular. Contrast with geometric shape.
Negative shape
Space that is empty of filled with imagery that is secondary to the main objects or figures depicted in the composition. Contrast with positive shape.
Positive Shape
The spatial form defined by the objects or figures represented in works of art.
Amorphouse
Without clear shape or form
Figure-ground REVERSAL
A shift in a viewer's perception of a composition in whichwhat one moment appears to the figure becomes the ground (or background) and vice versa.
Figure-ground RELATIONSHIP
The relationship between the primary subject (figure) and other parts of the composition (ground or background).
Vantage point
The actual or apparent spot from which a viewer observes an object or picture

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