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Glossary Flashcards

1
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Eclectic

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Use and combine various sources from different works

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Advancing colors

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Strong colors; warm and hot colors

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Chiaroscuro

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Handling of lights and darks for atmospherical effect

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Art brut

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Crude, raw artwork

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5
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Impasto

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Thick application of paint

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Academic painting

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Traditional painting

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Glazing

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Layers of transparent paint applied over dry, opaque paint

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Degraded color

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When a color’s intensity is softened by another color

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Installation art

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Art in which existing art is used to create another piece of artwork usually through rearrangement

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10
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Kitsch

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Cheap, mass produced artwork

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Lino cut

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Substance for which prints are made

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12
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Local color

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Actual colors of an object

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13
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Milieu

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The “spirit” of the era or time that the artwork was created in

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14
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Monochrome

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Medium with only one color and it’s different tones

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15
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Oeuvre

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How much artwork an artist has produced

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Opaque

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Solid application of paint

17
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Perspective

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The illusion of depth

18
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Aerial perspective

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The use of color to suggest depths

19
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Linear perspective

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The use of line to suggest depth

20
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Saturated color

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Strong and bold colors

21
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Scumbling

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Opaque paint applied roughly over a darker color to reveal the underlying color

22
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Sfumato

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Gradiation of tone

23
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Woodcut

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A design cut into wood

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Abstract art

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Non-representational art

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