Art's Definitions Flashcards

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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.

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Arts

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A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty,especially in art.

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Aesthetics

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An object made by a human being,typically an item of cultural or historical interest

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Artifact

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B.B.

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Style

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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.

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Color

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a long, narrow mark or band.

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Line

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the nature of something’s ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

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Composition

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the external form or appearance characteristic of someone or something; the outline of an area or figure.

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Shape

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the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.

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Texture

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a means by which something is communicated or expressed.

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Medium

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the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.

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Photography

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the visible shape or configuration of something.

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Form

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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.

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Light and shadows

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A color or shade.

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Hue

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The material or monetary worth of something

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Value

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the quality of being intense.

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a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape.

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the relative extent of something; a thing’s overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is.

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a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

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the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect.

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a change or difference in condition, amount, or level, typically with certain limits.

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an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.

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a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.

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Proportion

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the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.

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lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
Asymmetry
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the state of being united or joined as a whole.
Unity
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an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
Chairoscuro
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estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between.
Compare
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the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.
Contrast
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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Juxtaposition
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the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.
Sculpture