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Ch. 1-3 Flashcards

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A society’s images, its ideas and attitudes, customs, skills, and arts

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Culture

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The native physical world that surrounds us; biochemical world within our physical selves

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Nature

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The “what” of a work of art

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Subject

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Art that is abstract and nonrepresentational

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Nonobjective Art

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The category of subjects with which an artist works

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Genre

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The “how” of a work of art (general structure and overall organization)

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Form

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All that which is contained within a work of art (visual elements, subject matter, underlying meaning and themes)

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Content

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Study of the themes and symbols in visual arts (figures and images that lend works their underlying meanings)

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Iconography

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The components of art that include line, shape, value, color, texture, space, and time and motion

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Visual Elements

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The imaginary surface of a painting that separates the viewer from the image

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Picture Plane

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The visual strategies used by artists, along with the elements of art, for expressive purposes

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Principles of Design

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The materials used in creating art

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Medium

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The signature look of an artist’s work; the distinctive characteristics of an artist’s work and those of a culture and era

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Style

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A style of art characterized by a predominant emphasis on line, including outline and pronounced contour line

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Linear Style

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A style characterized by a loose and gestural handling of paint, including broad brushstrokes, irregular and uneven, applied rapidly to the canvas surface

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Painterly Style

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A style of art in which the world is represented as it is

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Realistic Style

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A style of art characterized by simplified or distorted rendering of an object that has the essential form or nature of that object

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Abstract Style

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The path made by a moving point

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Line

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A picture that represents a word or an idea

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Pictogram

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A point that has a measurable size

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Dot

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The length and width of a line

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Measure of a line

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A line that runs up and down

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Vertical Line

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A line that runs left and right

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Horizontal Line

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A line that runs cross-wise

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Diagonal Line

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The measure of a line, along with its other characteristics

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Quality of line

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The art of fine handwriting

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Calligraphy

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The drawing or engraving of fine parallel lines or crossed lines to represent shading

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Hatching

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A late nineteenth-century French school of painting that rejected the objective naturalism of impressionism and used form and color in personally expressive ways

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Post-Impressionist

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In a two-dimensional work of art, illusionary space that seems to recede from the picture plane into the distance; provides a sense of depth

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Pictorial Space

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A line that is physically present in a work of art

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Actual Line

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A line created by a viewer’s perceptual tendency to connect a series of points

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Implied Line

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A suggestion of linear direction formed by a viewer’s knowledge of relationships in a work of art; such as the relationship between the glance of a person toward an object

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Psychological Line

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A style of painting and sculpture of the 1940s and 1950s, in which artists expressionistically distorted abstract images with loose, gestural brushwork

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Abstract Expressionism

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A twentieth-century art style whose imagery is believed to stem from unconscious, irrational sources and therefore takes on fantastical forms

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Surrealism

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A line that marks the outer boundaries or contours of a figure or an object

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Outline

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A perceived line that marks the edge of a figure as it curves back into space

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Contour Line

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An artistic technique in which subtle gradations of value created the illusion of rounded three-dimensional forms in space

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Chiaroscuro

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The mass or bulk of a three-dimensional work; the amount of space it contains

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Volume

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The lightness or darkness of color

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Value

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The creation of shading in a drawing or etching through the use of intersecting sets of parallel lines

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Cross-hatching

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The surface character of materials as experienced by the sense of touch

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Texture

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The psychological tendency to perceive a broken figure as being complete or whole

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Closure

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The psychological tendency to perceive a series of points or a broken line as having unity

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Continuity

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An area within a composition that has boundaries that separate it from what surrounds it, making it distinct

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Shape

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An approach to art criticism that focuses mainly on the elements and design of works of art and de-emphasizes the artist and the period

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Formalist Criticism

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The true mass of an art object, as defined in terms of volume and weight

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Actual Mass

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The apparent or suggested mass of objects represented in a work of art

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Implied Mass

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Shapes found in geometry

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Geometric Shapes

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Geometric shapes formed by the intersection of straight lines

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Rectilinear Shapes

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Geometric shapes formed by the intersection of curving lines, or by the lines circling back to join themselves and compose closed geometric figures

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Curvilinear Shapes

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A twentieth-century style, developed by Picasso and Braque, which emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas and its characterized by multiple views of an object and the reduction of an image to its essential lines and shapes

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Cubism

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Shapes derived from those of living things found in nature

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Organic Shapes

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Without shape; without boundaries

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Amorphous

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The shapes in a composition

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Positive Shapes

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That which remains in the composition around or beyond the positive shapes

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Negative Shapes

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The relationship between the shapes or figures and the other parts of the composition

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Figure and ground relationship

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The shifting of viewer perceptions such that what, at one moment, appears to be the figure in a composition becomes the ground, and vice versa

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Figure-ground reversal

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