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  • Attempts to portray the subject as it is
  • Describes accurately and honestly as possible by senses.
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Realism

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  • Used when the artist becomes interested in a situation
  • Doesn’t show the subject as an objective reality; only the idea or feelings about it
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Abstraction

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  • Manifested when the subject is misshapen, or the regular shape is twisted
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Abstraction - Distortion

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  • Achieved lengthening, protracting, by or extending an aspect or feature of a subject
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Abstraction – Elongation

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-is rarely used by artists today. Here, the subject is either cut, or mutilated.

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Abstraction – Mangling

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  • Subjects represent an idea or concept devoid in the image but rather expressed through the various elements in the piece
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Symbolism

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  • Originated from les Fauves (French: the wild beasts)
  • Subjects are typically of comfort, joy, and pleasure
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Fauvism

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  • Rejects logic, reason, and aesthetics of capitalist societies
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Dadaism

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  • Originated in Italy in the early 20th century
  • Emphasizes on speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects as cars, airplanes, and industrial cities
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Futurism

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  • Founded in Paris in 1924 by French poet Andre Breton
  • Known for its visual artworks which sought to express the imaginings of the unconscious mind
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Surrealism

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  • Pigments mixed with water and applied to fin white paper
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Watercolor

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  • An opaque watercolor
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Gouache

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  • Painting done on a moist plaster surface with colors ground in water or limewater mixture
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Fresco

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  • Mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk and ore
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Tempera

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  • Stick of dried paste made of pigment ground with chalk and compounded with gum and water
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Pastel

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  • Oil paintings appear glossy and last long
    Most costly material to use for painters.
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Oil

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  • Small pieces of inlaid colored stones or glass called tesserae to create and image
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Mosaic

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-Small pieces of colored glass held together by bands of lead

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Stained glass

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  • Fabric produced by hand-weaving colored threads upon a wrap; hung on walls
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Tapestry

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  • Brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood and often used in pen and wash drawing
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Bistre

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  • A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function - The look of the art piece itself
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DESIGN

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  • Two-dimensional area that is defined in some way perhaps with an outline or solid area of color
  • May also be implied
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SHAPE

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  • Objects that have 3 dimensions: length, width, and depth
  • the overall, geometric shapes
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FORM

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  • The area where the shapes and forms exist
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SPACE

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within a design that void materials.

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Negative space

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  • The way things feel or how they look and feel if a person touches it
    -The surface quality of a material, as perceived by the sense
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TEXTURE

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  • Appeals directly to the audience’s emotions and stands for ideas and feelings
  • based on degrees: primary, secondary, and tertiary
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COLOR

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  • Help figure out the visual appeal and aesthetics employed by the artist
  • Fundamental guidelines to aesthetic design
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Balance
- elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work; also called as symmetry
- Visual balance causes an audience to feel that the elements have been arranged appropriately

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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Balance

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  • The way in which the artist combines the art elements to stress the differences between those elements
  • Makes one part of a work dominant over other parts
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Emphasis

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  • Combining art elements by using a series of gradual changes in those elements
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Gradation

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  • Accenting the similarities of art elements and binding the design parts into a whole
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Harmony

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  • Combining art elements to produce the look of action or to cause the viewer’s eyes to sweep over the work of art in a certain manner
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Rhythm and Movement

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  • The relationship of art elements to the whole and to each other
  • Highlights the comparative relationship in size, quantity, and degree of emphasis of the piece.
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Proportion

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  • Combining art elements in involves ways to achieve intricate and complex relationships
  • use of diversity in increasing the visual interest
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Variety

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  • The quality of wholeness or oneness of the art piece
  • balancing of harmony and variety
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN Unity

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ART AND THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL ORDERS
- Thrived between ____ Means to enforce religious and political order

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5000BC and 300AD

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  • those created from 30,000BCE to 400AD
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Ancient art

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  • periods such as Paleolithic, Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Iron
  • No uniformity emerged from any sources nor any art movement; most were used as social archives.
  • show as stiff, explicit, and direct representation of life
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EMERGENCE OF ART

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  • Depict gods, goddesses, ad Pharaohs
  • Characterized by the idea of order
  • Used symmetry to create sense of order and balance (static lines)
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EGYPT

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  • Pharaoh Khafre of the fourth dynasty of ancient Egypt (2570BC)
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Khafre Enthroned

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  • Contains three versions of a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt
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Rosetta Stone

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  • Include much pottery, sculpture (contrapposto), and architecture
  • Periods: Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
  • Also include coin design and gem engraving
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GREECE

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is an Italian term that means “counterpoise”. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with rost of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off- axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane.

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Contrapposto

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  • Gods of Trade and Travel & Harvest
  • represented in the act of carrying the child Dionysus to the nymphs who he charged with his rearing. The uplifted right arm is missing but may have held out to the child a bunch of grapes to symbolize his future as the god of wine
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Hermes and Infant Dionysus

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  • Housed in the Parthenon
  • fully-armed woman wearing a goatskin shield known as an aegis and a six-foot tall statue of the Greek goddess
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Athena Parthenos

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  • Indus Valley civilization some 5,000 years ago
  • Produced intricate bronzes as well as temple carvings, and shrines
  • Reflect Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
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INDIA

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  • Issued gold coin during the Gupta Period use for trading
  • characterize by wealth and prosperity,
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King Chandragupta I

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-Strongly influenced by Greek and Etruscan art
-Commemorate and glorify past emperors
- Express ideas of beauty and nobility

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ROME

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  • Used for gladiator shows
  • It is also called the Flavian Amphitheatre. It is an elliptical structure made of stone, concrete, and tuff, and it stands four stories tall at its highest point.
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Colosseum in Rome

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  • Correspond to locations of government
  • Strongly influenced by religion
  • Flourished during the Jomon and Yayoitimme periods
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JAPAN

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  • Used to prevent fire
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Nagoya Castle

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  • Produced multiple classes of bronzeware vessels for practical purposes as well as for religious and geomancy
  • Date back to the Warring States Period (silk)
  • Show more continuity between ancient and modern periods
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CHINA

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  • Common Chinese painting subject
  • a symbol of China and they are really significant to the Chinese culture.
  • symbolizing also strength and friendship
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Giant Panda

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  • box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
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sarcophagus

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-This is the most primitive, the most universal and the simplest of all the elements of art/painting

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Line

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  • quietness, and repose
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Horizontal line

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  • stability, dignity enmity by happiness, strength, majesty
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Vertical lines

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  • gives a feeling of motion, lose of control and instability
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Slanting/diagonal line

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  • suggests disorderliness and violent action
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Straight jagged line/broken line

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  • express continuity, life energy action and pleasure
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Curved lines/scrolled line

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  • often cited favorite colors.
  • It represents nature, environment, health, good luck, renewal, youth, vigor, spring, generosity, fertility, jealous inexperience, envy, misfortune.
  • In China, hats mean a man’s wife is cheating on him; it is not a good color for packaging.
  • In France studies have indicated green is not a good color choice for packaging either.
  • In India is the color of Islam.
  • In Ireland has religious significance (Catholic).
  • In some tropical countries green is associated with danger.
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Green

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  • pay the most attention to. It is the warmest and most energetic color in the spectrum.
  • associate with love, valentines, desire, speed, strength, violence, anger, signs, stop signs and blood.
  • would not be the color of choice for psychiatric wards, prisons or a hospital.
    -China symbolizes celebration and luck, used in many cultural ceremonies that range from funerals to weddings.
  • In India is the color of purity (used in wedding outfits).
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Red

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  • represents joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, sunshine, summ dishonesty, jealousy, co gination, hope, gold, philosophy, wardice, betrayal, Lousness, deceit, illness, hazard partuality and inspiration.
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Yellow

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  • is a combination of yellow and red. Orange is considered a warm color like red, but to a lesser extent
  • It symbolizes balance, warmth, enthusiasm, vibrance, flamboyancy, and is demanding of attention.
  • In Ireland orange has religious significance (Protestant).
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Orange

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  • we see when all colors come together in perfect balance.
  • It represents reverence, purity simplicity, cleanliness, peace, hu precision, innocence, youth winter, snow, good, sterilizer and marriage.
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White

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-is often considered to be the safest global color.
- In China, is associated with immortality.
- In Colombia, is associated with soap.
- For Hindus is the color of Krishna.
- For the Jews, symbolizes holiness in the Middle East blue is a protective color.
- represents peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and depression.

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Blue

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  • the absence of light and therefore, of color.
  • It represents power, se sophistication, formality, elegance wealth, mystery, fear, evil, anonymity, unhappiness, depth, style, evil, sadness, remorse, anger, underground, good technical color, mourning and death.
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Black

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  • usually a straight vertical or horizontal direction
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Static line

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  • curving, slanted, zigzag contorted or meandering directions.
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DYNAMIC line

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