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Actual texture

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Texture that actually exists on an object

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Aerial perspective

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Perspective shows how objects appear from a distance; accounts
for airborne particles, smoke, and fog

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Aesthetics

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Field of study concerned with beauty and expression

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Anthropology

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One of art history’s sister disciplines

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Approximate symmetry

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Visual balance achieved through organizing unlike objects

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Arbitrary color

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Color chosen for emotional emphasis and aesthetic impact

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Art criticism

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Field of study that informs the public on art events via the press

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Atmospheric perspective

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Another term for aerial perspective

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Balance

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Element created with equally distributed weight

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Color Wheel

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Visually organized different hues; developed by Sir Isaac Newton

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Comparative study

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Method of studying multiple art pieces side by side

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Composition

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The organization of the elements of art in a piece

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Contextual analysis

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Analysis that looks outside of the piece of art to gather context of
the work

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Cool colors

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Blues, greens, and violets in Western culture

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Direct examination

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Viewership of a piece of art in person

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Fine art

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Painting, prints, drawing, sculpture, and architecture produced for
a limited audience

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Form

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Three dimensional figures

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Formal analysis

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Study of the visual qualities of a work of art

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Hue

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The name of the color

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Implied line

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lines that are not solid
but consist of a series of interrupted dots or lines that the
eye connects

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Intensity

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Brightness or purity of a color

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Line

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A path a point travels; the most basic art element

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Linear perspective

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Mathematical technique developed during the Renaissance; uses a
vanishing point

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Local color

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Color shown as if seen in normal daylight

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Motif
A single element of a pattern
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Negative space
Area around the figure in a piece
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Neutral
Black and white; creates gray spectrum; are not considered hues
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Optical color
Color shown as seen in special lighting
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Organic
Irregular shapes and forms
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Pattern
A repeated motif
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Perspective
Element of art that creates the illusion of depth
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Positive space
Objects, shapes, and forms composing the “figure” in a piece
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Primary colors
Red, yellow, and blue; all colors come from these
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Proportion
Relative size of objects in an artwork
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Relativity of color
Theory that a color’s shade depends on surrounding colors
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Rhythm
Artistic element created using movements and pattern
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Scale
Size of an element relative to other parts of the work, or the entire work
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Secondary colors
Colors created from two primary colors; orange, green, and violet
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Shape
Two dimensional figures
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Space
The arrangement of shapes and forms
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Symmetrical balance
Elements repeated exactly on both sides of a central axis
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Tertiary colors
Colors formed from a primary and secondary color
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Texture
The feel of an object’s surface
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Value
Value describes a color’s lightness or darkness
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Vanishing point
Common point where lines converge on a horizon
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Visual texture
The appearance of texture on a piece
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Warm colors
Reds, yellows, and oranges in Western culture
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Acrylic Paint
Versatile paints made of synthetic materials
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Binders
A component of paint; holds pigments together
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Buon (true) fresco
Water and powdered pigments are permanently bound to a wet | plaster surface
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Charcoal
A common drawing tool; applying different weight changes the | value of the color
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Encaustic
Wax based paint; used on ancient Egyptian grave markers
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Engraving
Lines carved into the surface of a plate
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Etching
One form of intaglio printmaking; involves the incision of lines on wax or varnish before inking etched areas and transferring the ink to paper
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Fresco
Paintings on walls and ceilings
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Fresco secco
Paint applied to dry plaster, allowing the artist to make changes
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Glazes
Semi-transparent or transparent layers created by thinned oil paints
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Gouache
Opaque and water-based; dries slowly and produces vibrant colors
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Hatching
A shading technique; lines are placed closely together
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Impasto
Painting via heavy oil paint application or thick lumps
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Intaglio printmaking
Type of printmaking consists of etching and engraving
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Lithography
Printmaking via outlining an image on a plate using a waxy pencil or crayon before applying ink and pressing an image onto paper
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Matrix
The printing press on which an image is originally created
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Oil paint
A paint that dries slowly and is easy to blend
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Pastels
A tool that is easily blended and used to create colored media
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Pigments
One of the components of paint; finely ground material
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Printmaking
Art process that creates multiple originals through machines
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Relief printmaking
Printmaking via cutting away negative space and inking the positive space that stands in relief
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Screen-printing
Another term for silk-screening; used by t-shirt designers
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Shading
Creation of variants in values
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Silk-screening
Transfer of an inked image to synthetic fabrics stretched on a frame
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Solvents
A component of paint; changes the paint’s consistency
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Stippling
Patterns of dots are used to create shade
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Tempera
Quick-drying, water-based paint bound by egg; preceded oil paints
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Triptych
Three-panelled artwork; examples include Beckmann’s Blind Man’s Buff
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Watercolor
Quick drying and transparent paint
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Assemblages
All found objects combined by an artist
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Coil pottery
Pottery created by stacked coils of clay
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Collage
Art form combining objects that adhere to a shared surface
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Craft art
Art with a traditionally utilitarian purpose; has a range of forms
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Fiber arts
Art form created with woven and nonwoven materials
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Slab pottery
Pottery created by cut pieces of rolled out clay with slip
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slip
liquid clay
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Thrown
A term used to describe pots created with a potter’s wheel
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Vault
A tunnel of arches
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Three-dimensional art
Art that has depth and takes up space
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Square-colonnaded
Style of wings appearing in the Zeppelinfeld podium
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Sculpture
A three dimensional art process; many forms
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Ribbed vaults
A thin ribbed framework under vaulted areas
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Relief
Sculptures that are connected to a background surface; may be either high relief or low (bas) relief
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Post-and-Lintel
A horizontal lintel tops two vertical posts
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Mold
Means of creating copies of an original form for sculptures
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Modeling
A sculptural method in which the artist adds material
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In the round
Also known as freestanding; a form of sculpture where the piece stands by itself
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Freestanding
Sculptures that stand by themselves; also known as fully in the round
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Flying buttresses
External arches used to balance the weight of ceilings
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Environmental art
Also known as Earthworks; Involves temporary, large-scale, on-site construction; considered sculpture
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Dome
extension of arch
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Concrete
A mixture developed by the Romans for architectural projects
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Casts
The copies of an original form
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Cast form
A sculptural method in which plaster encases an original form to create a mold that is later used to make copies
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Carving
A sculptural method in which the artist removes material
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Arch
Curved structure allowing high, open spaces in buildings

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