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