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Flat; only viewed from one side.

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Two dimensional space

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A soft light that dissolved edges and made details unclear

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Sfumato

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Objects that can be viewed from all sides.

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Three dimensional

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Lines that describe the edge of a form, emphasized by changes in weight or width.

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Contour lines

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A three dimensional shape that has real weight like a block of marble

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Mass

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The space inside a mass, like a buildings dome

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Volume

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Formed by straight lines or curved ones that progress evenly

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Geometric shapes

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Formed by uneven curves

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Organic shapes

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Representational shapes that have been simplified

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Abstract shapes

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Not meant to refer to anything we can see in the real world

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Nonrepresentational shapes

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Dramatic contrast between highlights and darkness

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Chiaroscuro

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Name of a color on the color wheel

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Hue

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White, black, gray. Make tints and shades but do not affect hue

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Neutral colors

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Vividness of a particular hue

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Intensity

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Colors at the highest level of intensity

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Saturated

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Red yellow and blue

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Primary colors

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Orange green and purple

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Secondary colors

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The primary and secondary colors in a circle

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Color wheel

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Directly across from each other on the color wheel. Red and green. Yellow and purple. Blue and orange.

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Complementary colors

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An intuitive balance of visual weights that result in a more dynamic equilibrium than radial or symmetrical balance.

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Asymmetrical balance

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A method of creating a sense of deep space in two dimensional are based on the effect our atmosphere has on things seen at a distance. Distant forms are portrayed vaguer and closer to the color of the sky than near ones.

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Atmospheric perspective

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Visually satisfying stability in a work of art. It is created by adjusting the placement of art elements in a field.

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Balance

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An alternative to linear perspective organization organization of space developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 20th century. Built from a collection of observations, objects are seen from several angles simultaneously.

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Cubism

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The organization of visual elements into a composition that is visually satisfying

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Designs

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The empty space around the element becomes an important shape too and must be consciously dealt with. The element is called the positive form, and the altered space is the negative from or negative space. They are also called

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Figure and the ground

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A design whose positive and negative forms are so balanced that it is unclear which part should be called figure and which should be called ground

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Figure-ground ambiguity

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In two-dimensional art, the apparent diminishing in size or forms as they seem to recede from the viewer

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Foreshortening

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The visual place where art elements (figures) are organized. When elements are added to the ground, it becomes, in itself, a shape (called negative form), and must be consciously dealt with.

The surface of a two dimensional work of art

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Ground

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The same as the viewers eye level, it is where the sky and the earth appear to meet. In linear perspective, it is where parallel lines converge

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Horizon line

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The principal means of creating the illusion of the third dimension or depth in Western two dimensional art since the Renaissance. All parallel lines appear to converge at points in the distance, called vanishing points. Forms that seem close appear larger than those many to be farther from the viewer

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Linear perspective

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Hues adjacent on the color wheel; when placed together, they form pleasant harmonies because they are closely related. An example would be green, blue-green, and blue.

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Analogous colors

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The family of colors based on yellow, orange, and red; colors that are associated with extreme emotions, chaos, fire, and the sun. They tend to advance towards the viewer

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Warm colors

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The family of colors based on blue purple and green; colors that are associated with clan order the sky and the ocean. They tend to recede away from the viewer

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Cool colors

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The general color of anything we see, without considering the effect of lighting or adjacent colors

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Local color

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The effect of two colors meeting. Differences between them are accentuated; their similarities are not apparent

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Simultaneous contrast

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As opposed to naturalist or realistic colors, colors that are invention of the artist

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Arbitrary colors

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A flat two dimensional surface within which art elements are organized

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Picture plane

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The shape of an art element

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Positive form

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The relative sizes of the parts of an object to each other

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Proportion

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All elements revolve around a central point

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Radial balance

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Repetition of similar shapes, as in patterns

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Rhythm

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The relative size between an object and a constant, usually the size of the average person

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Scale

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Sometimes known as bilateral symmetry, a balance where there is general equivalence of shape and position on opposite sides of a central axis; if folded in half, the forms would match.

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Symmetrical balance

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A sense of coherence or wholeness in a work of art. Unity alone is unlikely to sustain the interest of a viewer. It must be balanced with variety.

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Unity

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In linear perspective, a point where parallel lines appear to converge on the horizon, like railroad tracks meeting at a point in the distance.

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Vanishing point

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The relative importance of an element in a picture plane. Visual weight is dependent on the position, color, size, shape or texture of the element

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Visual weight

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The shape of a space or ground around art elements

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Negative form

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A system of linear perspective invented by the Renaissance artist Filippo Brunelleschi. All parallel lines appear to converge at one point in the distance, the vanishing pout, which is exactly on the horizon line. As in all linear perspective, the sizes of objects shrink as they increase in distance from the viewer.

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One-point perspective

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A glue like substance that holds pigment together, the type of which determines the nature of the medium; for example, oil is the binder in oil paint. Used in all the colored media.

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Binder

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A versatile drawing crayon developed in the late 1700s. It comes in a variety of degrees of hardness and can be used to create both subtle tones and dense blacks

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Conté crayon

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A colored drawing medium with a waxy or oily binder that adheres to paper; does not require fixative

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Crayon

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A drawing technique used to make forms appear three dimensional. A series of parallel lines cross in a net-like fashion, describing the contours of a surface

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Cross-hatching

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A spray of shellac or plastic polymer used in charcoal and pastel drawings to ensure a permanent bond to the paper

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Fixative

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Artists materials, such as oil paint or clay

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Media, medium

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Drawings with pure, precise lines made by a thin metal wire in a holder; the wire is usually silver, but other metals including lead have been used

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Metalpoint

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Colored chalks in sticks that are a combination of loose dry pigment and a binder of paste or methylcellulose

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Pastels

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Reeds grass and bamboo were used to create the first what

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Pens

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Pens made from bird feathers, most commonly goose. Variation in the pressure applied to the pen will smoothly change a lines width. Popular since medieval period

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Quills

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A water soluble paint that dries quickly and can be applied to most surfaces. Originally made for industrial use in the 1950s, it’s medium is plastic polymer made from resins.

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Acrylic

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A spraying device that uses an air compressor to propel paint most through a nozzle

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Airbrush

60
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The combination of cut and pasted paper, photographs, and other materials on a two dimensional surface.

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Collage

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A painting medium in which pigments are mixed with egg yolks

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Egg tempera

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Mixing colored pigment with hot beeswax and then painting the mixture before it dries

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Encaustic

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A permanent wall painting technique. Pigment and water brushed directly into fresh, wet plaster. As the plaster dries the pigment is bound to it and literally becomes part of the wall itself.

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Fresco

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Paint diluted and made transparent. Often built up in layers on top of under painting to create the illusion of three dimensional forms.

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Glazes

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An opaque watercolor made by adding chalk to pigment and gum Arabic. Unlike watercolor, it can be applied more thickly, covers well, and permits changes

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Gouache

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Thick paint that reveals the action of brushstrokes

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Impasto

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Painting done as a foundation for subsequent transparent glazes. Usually establishes basic composition and tonal relationships

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Underpainting

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Transparent paint that is a quick drying combination of pigment and gum arabic. Diluted with water, usually applied to paper

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Watercolor

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A 20th century method that mixes materials (manufactured, natural “found objects,” as ell as conventional art media), often using them in unusual ways, without respect for the traditional borders between two and three dimensional media

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Mixed media

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The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these

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Iconography

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