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1
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French word rooted in the 13th century, which means skills as a result of learning or practice

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art

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Latin word meaning ability or practice skills.

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ars

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Art is the human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir us; it is creativity.

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ability

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4
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Art encompasses acts

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process

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5
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Art is the completed work

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product

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6
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“Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world.”

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Plato

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“Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind—one that demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping of matter to new and more significant form.”

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John Dewey

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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known”

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Oscar Wilde

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“Art is not a thing –it is a way.”

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Elbert Hubbard

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Art has no limit, and it rises above cultures, races, and civilization.

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Art is Universal

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Art is artificial because it is just an imitation of reality and nature.

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Art is not nature

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12
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We can only appreciate art if we spend time to look at it, listen to it, touch it, and feel its presence.

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Art involves experience

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13
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the act of a person through imaginary, makes something new such as a product, a solution or a work of art that has some kind of value

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creativity

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14
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it is one able to craft something bold, something new and something better in the hopes of creating something that will stimulate change

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imagination

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15
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The role of art as a creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom.

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Jean-Paul Sarte

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16
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Albert Einstein

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17
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the process of making known one’s thoughts or feelings

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expression

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18
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what an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it.

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Robin George Collingwood

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it refers to the quality of being a human; civilized

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humanity

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20
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telos in Greek

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purpose

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21
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For a thing to reach its purpose, it also has to fulfill its___

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function

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22
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life of fulfillment and happiness

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eudamonia

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sensibility and ability to make decisions based on intelligent thinking

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rationality

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The telos and the function of a thing are both related to that thing’s____

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identity

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25
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It is being used to provide comfort, happiness, and convenience to human beings.

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personal

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26
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Art is considered to have social function if and when it addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a personal interest.

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social

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27
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Art helps preserve, share, and transmit culture of people from one generation to another.

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cultural

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28
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Art becomes influential for man to be aware of the beauty of nature.

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aesthetic

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29
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An artist may create a work of art to reinforce the religious or spiritual support of a culture.

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spiritual

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30
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art is an imitation of the real that as an imitation of the ideal

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Plato

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31
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the things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the World of Forms

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art as mimesis

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32
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the aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance

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Aristotle

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33
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Aristotle considered art as an aid to philosophy in revealing the truth.

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art as representation

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34
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considered the judgment of beauty, the cornerstone of art, as something that can be universal despite its subjectivity

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Immanuel Kant

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35
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Making an aesthetic judgment requires us to be disinterested.

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art as a disinterested judgment

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36
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art plays a huge role in communication to its audience’s emotions that the artist previously experienced

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Leo Tolstoy

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37
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Art is central to man’s existence

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art as a communication of emotion

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38
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are the “tools” that artists use to make art

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elements of art

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39
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is a path that a point takes through space; can be thick, thin, dotted or solid, they can make straight movements, zig-zags, waves or curls

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lines

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40
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are generally restful, like the horizon, where the sky meets land

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horizontal lines

41
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seem to be reaching, so they may seem inspirational like tall majestic trees or church steeples

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vertical lines

42
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tend to be disturbing. They suggest decay or chaos like lightening or falling trees

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diagonal lines

43
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tend to be found in nature and are very organic

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expressive lines

44
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Other lines that are very measured, geometric, directional and angular

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constructive lines

45
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is created when a line becomes connected and encloses space

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shape

46
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have smooth even edges and are measurable

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geometric shapes

47
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have more complicated edges and are usually found in nature

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organic shapes

48
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is a shape that has become 3- Dimensional (3-D)

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form

49
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shows the thickness of the object

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depth

50
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is the lightness or darkness of a color

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value

51
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is when you use irregular lengths of parallel lines that cross over each other diagonally

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cross-hatching

52
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is the use of dots to create shade

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stippling

53
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can add interest and reality to artwork

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color

54
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Color is divided into groups based on the way they are placed on the color wheel

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color schemes

55
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a complimentary color and the two colors on either side of its compliment

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split-complimentary color scheme

56
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uses 3 colors that are equally spaced apart on the color wheel

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triadic color scheme

57
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When you use only one color plus its tints and shades

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monochromatic color scheme

58
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is a color plus white

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tint

59
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is a color plus black

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shade

60
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are those that have Reds, Yellows and Oranges

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warm colors

61
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are those that have Blues, Greens and Violets

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cool colors

62
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is the way the surface of an object actually feels

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tactile texture/texture

63
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is the way the surface of an object looks like it feels

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implied texture

64
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is used when the artist has objects very close to the viewer

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shallow space

65
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may show objects up close but objects are shown far away
too

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deep space

66
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is the actual object(s) within the artwork

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positive space

67
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is the area in and around the objects

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negative space

68
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is when the artist uses a vanishing point on the horizon and then creates a sense of deep space by showing objects getting progressively smaller as they get closer to the vanishing point

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perspective

69
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the matter be described or to be portayed by the artist

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subject of art

70
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often called as figurative art, because as the name suggests, the figures depicted are easy to make out and decipher

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representational art

71
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it is abstract in the sense that it does not represent real objects the real world

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non-representational

72
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Next to animals and people and their activites, nature as landscapes has been the common subject of the arts.

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nature

73
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All is conditioned by the historical period in which it is created.

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history

74
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During the Renaissance Period, poets, painters, and sculptures drew largely from Greek and Roman sources for subjects.

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Greek and Roman Methodology

75
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Artists expresses their distinct relationship with a higher controlling power.

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religion

76
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Sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.

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sacred oriental texts

77
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the meaning, message, and/or feeling imparted by a work a art

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content in art

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this pertains to the most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork and understanding how these elements relate to one another

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factual

79
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It pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, symbols and other cyphers as bases of its meanings.

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conventional

80
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It refers to the individual meaning deliberately and instinctively expressed by the artist using a personal symbolism that stems from his own alliance with past experiences.

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subjective

81
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It generally deals with the way the elements of art are composed within the work of art.

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principles of art

82
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this principle refers to the distribution of the visual elements in the view of their placement in relation to each other

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balance

83
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also known as formal balance; as two equal parts of the pictorial place of an artwork placed like mirror images of each other

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symmetrical

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also known as informal balance; where elements on either side of a composition do not reflect one another or when several smaller items on one side are balanced by a large item on the other side

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assymetrical

85
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balance where all elements radiate out from a center point to all four quadrants of the shape’s constraining plane

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radial symmetry

86
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pertains to the size in relation to what is normal for the figure or object in question

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scale

87
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size of the components, or of objects in relation to one another when taken as a composition or a unit

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proportion

88
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related to the realistic size of the visual elements in the artwork, especially for figurative artworks

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natural proportion

89
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refers to the unusual size relations of visual elements, deliberately exaggerating the immensity and minuteness of an object

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exaggerated

90
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most common to those that follow the canons of perfection, the size realtions of elements and objects, which achieve the most ideal size- relations

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idealized

91
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allows the attention of the viewer to a focal point(s), accentuating the drawing attention to these elements or objects

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emphasis

92
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is the disparity between the elements that figure into the composition

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contrast

93
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works through juxtaposition and contrast

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variety

94
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principle of art that creates cohesiveness by stressing the similarities of separate but related parts

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harmony

95
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is the principle of art that gives an artwork a feeling of “oneness”

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unity

96
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refers to purposely reducing the amount of potential variety

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simplicity

97
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refers to the closeness of different components in a work of art

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proximity

98
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this refers to the direction of the viewing eye as it goes through the art work, often guided by areas or elements that are emphasized

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movement

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