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Art Forms Flashcards

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refers to any piece of work or creation of art which is primarily visual in nature with artistic merit.

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Visual arts

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from Latin word p__ meaning to paint

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pingere

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a category in visual and fine arts that involve the application of paint, pigment, color, or other medium to a surface or support base in order to present an image of a subject

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Painting

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from Latin word s__ which means to cut or removing pieces from a stone or any materials

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Sculpere

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the art of carving, modelling, casting, assembling, and constructing materials into figures o forms to achieve three dimensional piece

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Sculpture

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art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Architecture

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to mold

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Plasticize

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art form that involves modelling or molding in three dimensions. The most common example of the plastic arts is sculpture and architecture.

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Plastic arts

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art forms in which artists use their body movements to dance or play music instruments or use voice to sing in order to convey artistic expression

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Performing arts

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a form of art that uses sound organized in time

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Music

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an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text or ‘ and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting

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Opera

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art form in which human movement becomes the medium for sensing, understanding, and communicating ideas, feelings, and experiences

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Dance

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a form of narrative performed on a stage in front of an audience

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Drama

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manifest in a wide variety of styles

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Genres

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poetry an art that focuses, at its core, on the words themselves

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Spoken words

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though art cinema is often defined as an artistic or experimental work expressing symbolic meaning through the medium of film. It is ambiguous, aesthetically rich, and complex and is now considered as the highest form of performing arts

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Cinema/Film/Movie

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a form of performing art using the natural ability to create illusion and manipulative tricks for the purpose of entertainment in front of the live audiences

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Magic and Illusionism

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a form of silent art that involves acting or communicating using only movements, gestures, and facial expressions

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Mime

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A person performing mime is also simply called?

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Mime

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a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated

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Puppetry

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The one who manipulates puppets

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Puppeteer

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a group of many different performers, often including clowns, trapeze artists, and animal trainers.

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Circus act

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a form of arts practice that involves a person or persons undertaking an action or actions within a particular time frame in a particular space or location for an audience (most of the time live audience)

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Performance arts

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Literary art comes from two words namely:

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Art & Literature

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means the expression of human feelings that have beauty value; is an absorption word that means guide, guidance or order in the form of text or voice; form of writing or stories that have artistic and cultural value that displays the beauty of speech and language to convey certain meanings

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Literary arts

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features imaginary characters and events. This genre is often broken up into several subgenres namely: fantasy, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, mystery, and science fiction. Each sub genre could feature interesting themes like: graphics, comedy, and romance.

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Fiction

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tells the story of real people and events. Examples include biographies, autobiographies, or memoirs

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Non-fiction

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a popular category of literature, is a story created mostly for a stage performance

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Drama

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a style of writing words arranged in a metrical pattern and often (though not always) in rhymed verse

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Poetry

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referred to as mythology, tells stories of originally oral literature and are meant to pass on particular moral lessons

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Folktales

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Since the 1960s, artistic work or practice that uses digital or computer technology as part of the creative or presentation process has been called ‘‘computer art’’ or ‘‘digital art’’. Later it was defined as ‘‘digital media art’’. Today it is now placed under the larger umbrella term the ‘new media art’’.

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New Media Arts

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32
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Specifically referring to the depiction of human male and females.

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Portraiture

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It represents a piece that features an arrangement of inanimate objects as its subject

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Still-life

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34
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is strictly referring to land and water sceneries and forms. Seascape and cityscape is also an acceptable term in specifying particular sceneries.

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Landscape

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artworks representing animals and any form of flowers and plants.

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Flora and Fauna

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artworks representing animals and any form of flowers and plants.

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Country life

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It represents events, objects and persons related to religious beliefs and practices.

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Religious

38
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it represents supernatural events or fantasy depiction of people, places and objects

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Mythological

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Art that has no real subjects or representation is an abstract, a total departure from reality

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Abstraction

40
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Known also as naturalism, this is an attempt to represent things as it is with accuracy and precision

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Realism

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An invented word came from super naturalism or simply beyond realism

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Surrealism

42
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They attempt to represent subjects which are usually the result of dreams or fantasy

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Surrealists

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The cubist wants to emphasize the advantage of using the basic geometric shapes in presenting any subjects.

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Cubism

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method is a depiction of emotional realism expression of a real life subject based on subjective perspective

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Expressionism

45
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a realism art based on the artist’s impression or perception particularly the effects of lights on the objects or subjects

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Impressionism

46
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symbolism in painting represents absolute reality using visible signs of object in an indirect manner.

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Symbolism

47
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a unique way of rendering a painting applying fine dots in the canvas

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Pointilism

48
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Originated in Italy, this type of painting depicts motion like the speed of a flying object is portrayed dramatically in the canvas.

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Futurism

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a modern art emphasizes the importance of shapes and space to depict minimal usage of flamboyant display of decorative design but rather simplicity.

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Minimalism

50
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this painting uses bright colors and attractive shapes that depicts happiness and positivity

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Fauvism

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Dada as known to artists, this painting is shocking in portrayal of political, social, and cultural issues and subjects.

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Dadaism

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this art is actually a withdrawal from truth and reality. This art is being presented in distortion, elongation, mangling, cubism and abstract expressionism.

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Pure abstraction

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refers to the art materials and tools

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Medium

54
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refers to how the desired materials are used or applied to make an art piece

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Technique

55
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they are unpredictable; hard to change the way it is going to disperse once it is applied on the paper

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Watercolors

56
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chalk pastels are great for creating textures, blending colors, and layering. This medium in art is known as luminous and tender.

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Patels

57
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a convenient and affordable art medium. It comes in the form of a graphic, fountain, drawing, reed, and drafting pens or simply ballpoint pens.

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Ink

58
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has a deep, luminescent effect aside from it is convenient to use and an affordable art medium

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Pencils

59
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the incorporation of two or all media of your choice together in a unique way. This technique is enjoyable because it allows you to experiment and can take numerous forms, and there are no limits for your imagination to explore.

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Mixed media

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one of the most basic ways to exercise your creativity. Whether you’re using a pencil, pen, crayon, or even your fingers, the skills you gain from the activity translate to a bevy of different media.

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Drawing

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the area or areas within a scene that leads to the visual attention of the viewers

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Focal point technique

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The structure of an artwork refers to the composition of finished artwork assembled in harmony by necessary elements based on the artist’s critical taste, planning, and decision making to create thereby a composition of a masterpiece

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Composition elements of art

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can be vertical, diagonal, horizontal, and even curved. It can be any width, size, shape, position, direction, interval, or density.

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Line

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if a line were to curve around and eventually cross itself, the enclosed area is called a?

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Shape

65
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connotes something that is three-dimensional having length, width, and height

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Form

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The light or dark quality of a color. When black is added to a color the value of that color is darkened. When white is added to a color the value is lightened or tinted.

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Value

67
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balance of light and shadow

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Chiaroscuro

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gradual blending of light and shadow

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Sfumato

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heavy shadow against light

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Caravaggio

70
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can be used for its decorative beauty, to create mood and to express or arouse an emotion

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Color

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the color itself

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Hue

72
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dark or light quality of color

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Value

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brightness or saturation of color

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Intensity

74
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yellow, red, and blue

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Primary

75
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mixture of one primary and secondary color Intermediate

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Intermediate

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refers to the distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things

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Space

77
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nearest to the viewer

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Foreground

78
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layer next to foreground

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Middle ground

79
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layer after the middle ground

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Background

80
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it describes the feel of surfaces like smooth, rough, soft, hard, cold, warm

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Texture

81
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is employed in both static and in time-based mediums and can show a direct action or the intended path for the viewer’s eye to follow through a piece.

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Time & Motion

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an artistic arrangement of the desired composition

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Principle of Design

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covers how the visual weight of elements are balanced with each other on both sides of a design to create cohesiveness, completion, and satisfaction

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Balance

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the principle of design that unifies all other principles within a piece of work, allowing each individual element to coexist with one another to form an aesthetically pleasing design

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Unity

85
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a strategy that aims to draw the viewer’s attention to a specific design element

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Emphasis

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refers to the arrangement of opposite elements and effects

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Contrast

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