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It is an art movement that originated in France in 1860s.

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Impressionism

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It centered on a group of artists who were labelled as Impressionists.

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Impressionism

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The name of the Impressionist movement was coined by critics from a painting by Claude Monet entitled:

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Soleil Levant

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Short, brisk, strokes of bright colours.

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Impasto

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An Italian word used to describe the thickness and texture that can be achieved with acrylic/oil paint.

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Impasto

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He was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perception before nature, especially
as applied to plein air landscape painting.

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Claude Monet

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He was a French artist, and was a leading painter of the Impressionist style.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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He was an artist best known for his pleasant paintings and love of the female figure.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Main subject of Renoir’s paintings.

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Female figures

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He was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century.

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Juan Luna

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One of the first recognised Philippine artist.

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Juan Luna

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Juan Luna is known for this famous painting which won gold medal in Madrid, 1878.

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Spoliarium

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It is an art movement that has in its root in France and Germany around 1910.

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Expressionism

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It was first used as a term to describe a group of painters in Der Blaque Reiter in Germany.

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Expressionism

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It is an artistic style in which an artist
attempts to portray not the
objective reality but more on the
subjective emotions and responses
that objects, events, or situations
arouse in him/her.
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Expressionism

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The artists rejected realism and instead distorted the images radically for emotional effect in order to evoke a mood or an idea.

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Expressionism

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They sought to arouse an emotional
response to their subjects, such as
alienated individuals in an urban
environment.

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Expressionism

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The best artwork that captures the Expressionist Style.

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The Scream by Edward Munch

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He was a Norwegian painter whose works reflected a morbid obsession with sickness and isolation.

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Edward Munch

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It depicts a man in a private
moment of anguished despair and anxiety,
while other people in the painting seem
blissfully unaware of his situation.

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The Scream

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He was a Russian artist pioneered abstract art in the 19th and early and 20th centuries.

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Wassily Kandinsky

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He was a Filipino painter who led the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns.

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Victorio Edades

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It is a group of artists who engaged their classical compatriots in a heated debate over the nature and function of art.

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Thirteen Moderns

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The Father of Philippine Modern Art.

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Victorio Edades

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He was a leading proponent of Expressionism in the Philippines.

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Victorio Edades

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It is an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionize European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music, literature, and architecture.

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Cubism

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This art movement was further developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the first 20th century.

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Cubism

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It is a form of abstraction where objects are reduced to cubes and flattened into two-dimensional shapes.

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Cubism

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The first cubist work made by Picasso was named:

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Les Demoiselle de Avignon

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He was a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer
and is considered one of the greatest and most
influential artists of the 20th century.

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Pablo Picasso

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He is universally renowned as one

of the most influential and celebrated artists of the twentieth century.

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Pablo Picasso

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He is a French painter, collagist and
sculptor. He is, along with Pablo Picasso,
renowned as the co-founder of Cubism,
which revolutionized 20th-century
painting.
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Georges Braque

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He was a Filipino artist known for his

Cubist paintings and prints.

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Vicente Manansala

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He was the developer of transparent cubism.

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Vicente Manansala

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It is a revolt by painters and writers in France, Germany, Switzerland during the 20th century against the prevailing
standards in art.

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Dadaism

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The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by which artist around
1913 when he created his first
readymade, Dada?

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Marcel Duchamp

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37
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This art movement reacted to the
illogical patriotism that resulted from
WWI.

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Dadaism

38
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He was a pioneer of Dada, a
movement that questioned long-held
assumptions about what art should be, and how it should be made.

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Marcel Duchamp

39
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He developed artworks called “Readymades” through the use of commercially available objects.

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Marcel Duchamp

40
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He was a prominent German avant-

garde artist who helped found both Dadaism and Surrealism.

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Max Ernst

41
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He was a Filipino graphic artist, print-
maker, avant-garde poet, social activist,
sculptor, satirist, and art professor.

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Manolito Tolentino Mayo

42
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He was also credited by his peers and

art writers as the “Original Punk” of Philippine Arts.

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Manolito Tolentino Mayo

43
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His subjects and compositions usually
embodied magical themes, amulets, animal
people, and subconscious wanderings.

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Manolito Tolentino Mayo

44
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It aims to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams.

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Surrealism

45
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It is a style of art that
evolved from Dadaism and
developed in the 20th century.

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Surrealism

46
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He was an Italian artist and writer

born in Greece.

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Giorgo de Chirico

47
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In the years before World
War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art
movement, which profoundly influenced
the surrealists.

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Giorgo de Chirico

48
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He was acclaimed by the
surrealists as a forerunner of their
movement, founded the school of
metaphysical painting.

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Giorgo de Chirico

49
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He was a Spanish leading

proponent of Surrealism.

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Salvador Dali

50
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He was a Spanish leading proponent of Surrealism and he was called the “Epitome of Surrealism”.

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Salvador Dali

51
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He is a Filipino surrealist painter,
poet, philosopher, essayist, musician,
performance artist, and literary, art &
cultural critic from Mindanao.

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Danny Sillada

52
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He is known as “Contemporary Filipino

Renaissance man”.

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Danny Sillada

53
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It was an art movement that merged two
contradictory elements – abstract
and reality.

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Abstract Realism

54
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He was a Dutch American artist
known as one of the most renowned
abstract expressionists in the history of art.

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Willem de Kooning

55
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He is a modern American artist who

has achieved international recognition for his large-scale portraits.

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Chuck Close

56
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He was instrumental in
reviving the art of portraiture as a credible
subject matter at a time when figurative art
looked dead in the water.

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Chuck Close

57
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He was a Filipino painter best known for
his Abstract Expressionist works which utilized a variety of techniques, including controlled drips, impasto strokes, and transparent layering.

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Jose Joya

58
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He is a National Artist of the Philippines
awardee and founding father of abstract
expressionism in the Philippines.

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Jose Joya

59
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it is the highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts.

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National Artist Award

60
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It began in Britain in the mid-1950’s but became associated with America in the
late 1950s.

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Pop Art

61
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The term was derived from the “popular” because it was inspired by modern popular culture and mass media.

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Pop Art

62
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It was born out of Dadaism and Abstract

expressionism.

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Pop Art

63
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It is art movement that reacted against the dominance of abstract art.

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Pop Art

64
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Artists of this movement focused their interest on familiar images of popular
culture such as commercial art,
comic strips, posters, billboards,
among others.

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Pop Art

65
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He was an American painter and

designer, was best known as a pioneer of pop art.

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Andy Warhol

66
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Andy Warhol was an American painter and was the pioneer of pop art. His notable public figure work was:

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Elvis Presley

Marilyn Monroe

67
Q

He was an American painter, graphic

artist, and sculptor, was also known as one of the proponents of pop art.

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Roy Lichtenstein

68
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He is a multi-awarded and
critically acclaimed Filipino visual artist
known for the stunning craftsmanship and
meticulous design of his artworks that
meditate on critiques of modernism and
contemporary life.
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Anton Del Castillo

69
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It is an art movement that creates

an optical illusion.

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Op art

70
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Shorter name for optical art

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Op art

71
Q

He was a Hungarian-French artist,
who was widely accepted as a
“grandfather” and leader of the Op art
movement.

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Victor Vasarely

72
Q

She is a well-known British artist
celebrated since the mid-1960s for her
distinctive, optically vibrant paintings,
called “Op Art.”

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Bridget Riley

73
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He is a Filipino Asian Modern &
Contemporary painter who was born in
1947.

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Jaime Roque

74
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It breaks the conventional idea about what art is. This is an innovation in art that may
include theater, dance, music,
cinema, and, in some cases, the use of technology such as video,
computer, and robots.

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Performance art

75
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It is a term usually reserved to refer to a
conceptual art which conveys a
content-based meaning in a more
drama-related sense, rather than
being a simple performance for its
own sake for entertainment
purposes.
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Performance art

76
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It largely refers to a performance presented to an audience, but which does not seek to present a conventional theatrical play or a formal linear narrative, or which alternately does not seek to
depict a set of fictitious characters in
formal scripted interactions.

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Performance art

77
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It refers to a participating art in
which spectators, as well as artists were
engaged. It is also regarded as
“assemblage on the move,” bringing in
the basic concepts of motion, time, and
space.
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Happenings

78
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It is an organized assembly of a
group of people who meet in public
place for the purpose of doing unusual or
entertaining activity for a temporary
period of time then disperse.
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Flash Mob

79
Q

The first flash mobs were created in Manhattan in 2003 by:

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Bill Wasik

80
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It was an attempt to restore the artist’s connection to physical environment which was somehow lost or ignored during the period of Dadaism.

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Abstract Realism

81
Q

Op art typically employs abstract patterns composed with a stark contrast of foreground and background - often in ________ and ________ colors.

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Black and White

82
Q

The other term for color is

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Hue

83
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It refers to the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.

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Proportion

84
Q

The main hero of the Impressionist painters was:

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Light

85
Q

It is an element of art that is enclosed space where the boundaries are defined by other elements of art.

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Shapes

86
Q

The word Dadaism came from the Latin word meaning :

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Nothing

87
Q

It is the appearance of smoothness or roughness in visual arts or the actual surface feel of a work of art or craft.

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Texture

88
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It refers to the idea of maintaining consistency of art elements in various areas in an artwork.

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Balance

89
Q

It is an important principle of design that gives the artwork a sense of cohesion or coherence.

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Unity

90
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It refers to the use of visual elements to draw attention to a certain area, usually a focal point, in an artwork.

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Emphasis

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