Op Art & Color Vocab

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Optical Illusion

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an image that deceives a person, leading to a misinterpretation of its meaning. Optical illusions can be found in nature as well as in art. Their strengths rely upon various assumptions in which humans perceive optical phenomena.

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Op Art

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A twentieth century art movement and style in which artists sought to create an impression of movement on the picture surface by means of optical illusion

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Movement

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a principle of design associated with rhythm, referring to the arrangement of parts in an artwork to create a sense of motion to the viewer’s eye through the work

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Define optical movement

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an illusion of movement or implied movement caused by the response of the eye to lines, shapes, and colors arranged in artworks.

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Rhythm

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principle of design that shows the regular repetition of any of the elements of desgn, with or without periodic alternation

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Pattern

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a choice of lines, colors, and/or shapes repeated over and over in a planned way

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Tesselation

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a collection of shapes that fit together to cover a surface without overlapping or leaving gaps

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Trompe Loeil

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a french term literally meaning “trick the eye”. Sometimes called illusionism, it’s a style of painting which gives the appearance of three-dimensional, or photogrphic realism. It flourished from the Renaissance onward.

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Afterimage

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an optical phenomenon in which the eye’s nerves continue to convey an image after an initial image has departed.

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Alternating figures

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ambiguous images which serve in the psychology of perception to demonstrate the way the mind habitually tries to achieve a coherent gestalt.

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Anomorphosis

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an image that appears distorted, because it is constructed on an elongated grid, rendering it unintellible until it is viewed from a specific, extremely oblique point of view or reflected in a curved mirror, or with some other optical device

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Color

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an art element with three properties: hue, value, and intensity

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Color wheel

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a radial diagram of colors in which primary and secondary, and sometimes intermediate colors, are displayed to aid in color identification, choosing, and mixing

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Primary Colors

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the colors red, yelow, and blue from which it is possible to mix all the other colors of the specrum

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secondary colors

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the colors attached by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors

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Intermediate colors

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the colors obtained by mixing unequal amounts of two primary colors

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Tint

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a soft and light color–one to which white has been added

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Shade

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variations of the dark and light of color made by adding black to the color

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spectrum

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bands of colored light created when white light is passed through a prism

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color harmonies

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groupings of colors

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neutrals

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colors such as black, white, and gray, not assoiated with any hue and neither warm or cool

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cool colors

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colors around blue on the color wheel: green, blue, and violet

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warm colors

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colors around orange on the color wheel: red, orange, and yellow

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hue

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the name of any color as found in its pure state in the spectrum or rainbow, or that aspect of any color

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monochromatic

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consisting of only a single color or hue, may include its tints and shades

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Triad

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Three colors equally spaced on the color wheel

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Complementary

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colors that are directly opposite eachother on the color wheel

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Analogous

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any two or more colors that are next to eachother on the color wheel and are closely related

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split-complementary

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one color plus the two colors that are on either side of its complement on the color wheel

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Saturation

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A color’s purity of hue; it’s intensity

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Tone

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a quality of a color, arising from its saturation, intensity, lumonosity and temperature; or to create such a quality in a color

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Opaque

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quality of a material that does not let any light pass through, opposite of transparent

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Intensity

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The brightness or dullness of a color

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Paint

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pigment mixed with oil and water

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pigment

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any coloring matter mixed with a liquid or binder to make paint, crayons, ink, etc

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pallete

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Tray used by painters for mixing colors of paint

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portrait

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an artwork that shows a specific person or animal, often only shows the face

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translucent

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quality of a material that allows light to pass through it, but one cannot see through it

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transparent

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quality of a material that allows light to pass through it