Art Terms (C)

Question 1

C-Print

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A C-print, also known as a C-type print or Chromogenic print, is a photographic print made from a colour negative or slide

Question 2

Cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse)

Answer 2

Cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) is a collaborative drawing approach first used by surrealist artists to create bizarre and intuitive drawings

Question 3

Capitalist Realism

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Capitalist realism was a movement formed in Berlin in Germany in 1963 to challenge the dominating influence of American pop art in the Western world

Question 4

Caricature

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A caricature is a painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the subject

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Charcoal

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Charcoal is a black crumbly drawing material made of carbon and often used for sketching and under-drawing for paintings, although can also be used to create more finished drawings

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Chiaroscuro

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Chiaroscuro is an Italian term which translates as light-dark, and refers to the balance and pattern of light and shade in a painting or drawing

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Classicism

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The term classicism is used to describe art that makes reference to ancient Greek or Roman style

Question 8

Collage

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Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface

Question 9

Color Field Painting

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The term colour field painting is applied to the work of abstract painters working in the 1950s and 1960s characterised by large areas of a more or less flat single colour

Question 10

Comic Strip Art

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Comic strip art is art that imitates the style, commercial printing techniques and subject matter of comic strips

Question 11

Complementary Colors

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Complementary colours are pairs of colours that contrast with each other more than any other colour, and when placed side-by-side make each other look brighter

Question 12

Composition

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Composition is the arrangement of elements within a work of art

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Conceptual Art

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Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

Question 14

Conceptual Photography

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Conceptual photography is photography that illustrates an idea

Question 15

Concrete Art

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Concrete art is abstract art that is entirely free of any basis in observed reality and that has no symbolic meaning

Question 16

Constructionism

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Constructionism was an extension of constructivism in Britain from about 1950, with artists using naturally occurring proportional systems and rhythms to underpin their geometrical art

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Constructivism

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Constructivism was a particularly austere branch of abstract art founded by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko in Russia around 1915

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Contemporary Art

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The term contemporary art is loosely used to refer to art of the present day and of the relatively recent past, of an innovatory or avant-garde nature

Question 19

Craft

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Craft is a form of making which generally produces an object that has a function: such as something you can wear, or eat or drink from

Question 20

Creolisation

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Originally a Caribbean concept, creolisation describes the mixing together of different people and cultures to become one

Question 21

Cubism

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Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted