Art's Definitions Flashcards
The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination,typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture,producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Arts
A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty,especially in art.
Aesthetics
An object made by a human being,typically an item of cultural or historical interest
Artifact
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Style
the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.
Color
a long, narrow mark or band.
Line
the nature of something’s ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.
Composition
the external form or appearance characteristic of someone or something; the outline of an area or figure.
Shape
the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
Texture
a means by which something is communicated or expressed.
Medium
the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.
Photography
the visible shape or configuration of something.
Form
the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible.
a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
Light and shadows
A color or shade.
Hue
The material or monetary worth of something
Value
the quality of being intense.
Intensity
a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape.
Mass
the relative extent of something; a thing’s overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is.
Size
a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
Rhythm
the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect.
Harmony
a change or difference in condition, amount, or level, typically with certain limits.
Variation
an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.
Balance
a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.
Proportion
the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
Symmetry