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Elements Of Art Flashcards

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Composition

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A creative work, or how elements and objects are conposed in an artwork

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Complementary colours

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Colours that complement each other and are on opposite sides of the colour wheel. (Eg, purple and yellow)

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Primary colours

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Colours that are mixed to make secondary colours. (Red, yellow and blue)

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Cool colours

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Colours that have a cold feeling or represent cool. (Eg, blue, green)

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Symbolic colour

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Colour that is used to represent something. (Eg, green = envy, red = heat, anger, stop etc)

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Texture

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The surface characteristics of an artwork

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Collage

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A single artwork made up of multiple materials or images

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Two-dimensional

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Having or appearing to have length and breadth but no depth.

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Three-dimensional

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Having or appearing to have lengty, breadth and depth.

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Assemblage

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An artwork made of found objects or things put together or composed as one.

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Aerial perspective

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Viewing from up above. Aka birds eye view

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Foreground

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The area at the front of an artwork, or the area closest to the viewer

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Middleground

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The area at the centre of the artwork

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Background

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The area at the back of the artwork (eg, the sky in a landscape)

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Structural frame

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Looking at art by examining its oarts. What elements have been used eg) line

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Cultural frame

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The social meanings in an artwork and what they represent. (Eg, gender, race, war…)

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Postmodern frame

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Involves ideas that challenge the mainstream and are out of the norm.

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Subjective frame

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Art which is based on the artists personal and psychological experiences.

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Still life

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A still image to paint or draw using objects or items from life.

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Organic

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Natural forms or shapes

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Shape

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2D area within an outline.
Geometric shape - precise and regular
Organic shape - irregular, rounded and relaxed

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Direction

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Vertical, horizontal, diaganol or oblique. Can lead the viewers eye to a focal point. Indicates movement or mood

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Whimsical

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Playful, quaint. Objects arranged in an interesting or appealing way.

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Humour

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Amusing or comical artwork

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Landscape

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A type of format for an artwork. Also a natural view in an artwork. Eg) seascape

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Linear perspective

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Represents depth theough lines that converge on a vanishing point

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Secondary colours

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Two primary colours mixed together (yellow + red = orange)

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Elements of art

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The main components or building blocks of art

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Representational art

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Art that seeks to depict the physical existence of reality

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Self portrait

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A representation of ones self either drawn, painted or sculpted

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Space

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Deacribes the distance between people and objects

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Size

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Size is relative. Contrast is created between large and small shapes

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Skewed perspective

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Unnatural angles in an artwork (eg a vertical horizon line)

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Self portrait

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A representation of ones self, either drawn, painted or sculpted.

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Sculpture

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The art of making 2 or 3 dimensional forms by carving wood, bending metal/wires or building on clay

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simplified images/stylised

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An image or object that has been brought back to the basic and original shape

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Flat colour

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Not glossy or vibrant, dull

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Irreverent

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Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously

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Imaginative

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Having or showing creativity or inventiveness

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Outline

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The outer egde or line of an object or painting

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Gestural line

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Is linked with movement and is quick

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Form

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The shape of an art piece

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Armature

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The framework, basic shape, skeleton or begining frame for a sculpture

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Contour line

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The line which defines an object or figure in a drawing

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Harmonious/analogous colours

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Colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel that form a pleasing and consistent look

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Tints

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Hue + white = tint

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Tone

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Hue + Grey = tone

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Shade

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Hue + black = shade

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Relief printing

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The process of adding or taking away layers of a lino print in such a way that all that remains of the original surface is the design to be printed

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Reduction printing

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A print in which seperate stages of a lino block are printed together. After the first print, the lino is reduced and printed again.

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Gouges

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A lino tool/chisel used to engrave the lino block

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V Type Gouge

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Creates thin deep lines used for precise and neat detail

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U Type Gouge

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Creates large, even carves, used to clear away areas in the lino block

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C Type Gouge

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A tool used in relief printmaking that is used to clear away

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Chine Collé

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A process in printmaking in which the artist places thin collage paper on the ink plate and then pressed creating a new effect on the print

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Registration in Printmaking

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The registration plate ensures that the 2nd layer print stays alligned with the first layer print in a reduction print. Thr allignment of soecific marks

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Surrealism

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Aimed at expressing imaginitive dreams free from concious rational control

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German expressionism

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A modernist movement originally in germany aimed at presenting the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas in the viewers

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Modernism

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A loose term given to the succesion of styles and movements in art from the 19th century up until the 1960s. Includes cubisms

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Post impressionism

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CEZANNE. A reaction againts impressionists concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. An extension of impressionism while also rejecting its limitations on art

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Fauvism

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Works emphasised painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by impressionsm

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Cubism

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PICASSO. Where perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned amd ise was made of simple gemotric shapes, interlocking planes and collage

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Pop art

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Based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment. Can use magazines or popular movies

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Abstract expressionism

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POLLOCK. A development of abstract art which originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the spontaneous creative act (e.g. action painting)

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Abstraction

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Art that is non representational ie subject matter is not recognisably based on figure/landscape etc. Uses shape, line, colour, in a simplified manner. Objects often distorted or simplified

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Appropriation

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Borrowing ideas, motifs, or imagery

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Avant garde

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Ahead of its time

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Curvilinear

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Curved lines are emphasised in the shape, form, or composition of an artwork

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Delineation

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To outline the shape or form of an object

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Explain

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Relate cause and effect, make the relationships between things evident, provide why and/or how

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Examine

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Inquire into

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Evaluate

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Make a judgement based on criteria, determine the value of

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Discuss

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Identify issues and provide points for and or against

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Painting drawing conventions

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Include research, drawing notes, sketches, compositional plans, monochromatic and colour studies, collage, digital processes, painting, evaluative notes

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Painting technical conventions

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Include wet and dry media, pencil, crayon, charcoal, conte, pen, ink, dye, paint, shallac, collage, shading, blending, scumbling, imoasto, glazing, layering, drips, dry brush, scratching, graffiti, spray praint, wiping, stencil, transfer, multimedia, installation, in situ, digital processes

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Painting pictorial and conceptual conventions

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Include abstract, figuritve, cubist, minimal, decorative, narrative, post modern, still life, vanitas, landscape, metaphorial, symbolic, portrait, expressive, gestural, hard edge, op, pop, political, historical, culutural, pattern making, surrealist, dada, grunge, street, bombing, graffiti, animation, perspective, grid, montage, morphing, juxtaposition, monochrome

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Conventions

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Refer to the characteristics and constraints applicable, relevant, and fitting to established practice within the fields

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Asymetry

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A balance of parts on opposite sides of a percieved midline, giving the appearance of equal visual weight

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Equilibrium

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“A feeling of equilibrium” A state in which oposing forces are balanced

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Focal point

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The place in a work of art at which attention becomes focussed because of an element emphasized in some way

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Expressive content

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Content expressive of ideas and moods in a work of art

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Dominance

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An emphasis of one aspect, characteristic or quality in an image in relation to all others

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Distortion

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The condition of being twistered or altered from a usual or regular shape. Often used as an expressive technique

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Hue

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The gradation or attribute of a colour that defines its general classification

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Installation art

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The combining of elements into a singular artwork that is specifically located in one place. Unable to be relocated

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Mass

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The outside size and bulk of an object, such as a building or a sculpture. The visual weight of an object

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Macquette

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A preliminary model

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Mood

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The state of mind or emotion communicated in an artwork

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Negetive space

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Shapes or spaces that are or represent areas unoccupied by objects

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Rhythm

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Repetitive visual elements that achieve a specific effect

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Scale

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Relative size, proportion

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Value

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Lightness or darkness of a hue or neutral colour

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Visual metaphor

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Images in which characteristics of objects are likened to one another and presented as that other. Closely related to concepts of symbolism

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Recontextualise

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To place an artwork in a different context to change the meaning

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Ways to describe line

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Broken, curved, controlled, simplistic, directional, descriptive, bold, sensuous

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Ways to describe tone

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Subtle, dramatic, contrasting, flat, bold, muted

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Chiaroscuro

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The treatment of light and shade in drawings and painting

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Ways to describe texture

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Coarse, sensitive, rustic, descriptive, minimal, tactile, slippery, soft, bold

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Ways to describe shape

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Irregular, regular, organic, realistic, abstract, dynamic

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Tactile

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Perceptible by touch

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Ways to describe colour

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Vivid, dynamic, sensitive, neutral, psychodelic, rich, dull, tonal

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Psychodelic

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Suggestive or evocative of an altered or hallucinatory state of perception

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Lacklustre

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Not shining, lacking in vitality

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