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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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All arts such as dance, music, literature, acting, plays, music, ect.

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The Arts

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Drawings, painting, design, sculpture, architecture, etc.

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The Visual Arts

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Thoughts or ideas generally used for creating solutions or solving problems and used in all parts of our lives.

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Creativity

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Art that contains recognizable subjects or you can tell what objects are represented

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Representational Art

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Objects or figures that look real

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Realism, Naturalism, or Figuartive

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Art that looks as though you can reach in a painting and grab objects (to fool the eye)

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Trompe l’ oeil

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7
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Reproduce the look and feel of photograph

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Photorealism

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Art that makes no reference to the real world (also known as non-objective)

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Non-Representational

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9
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Art where objects have been altered in any way

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Abstract

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Objects are designed in a more simplified and graphic appearance (form of abstract)

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Stylized

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11
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What we see or physical art itself

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Form

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12
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The meaning/message of art (including emotional, intellectual, symbolic, etc)

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Content

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13
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When art has a religious or cultural meaning

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Iconography

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14
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The arrangement of all objects and shapes in a work of art

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Composition

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15
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The material that the artist uses to make art

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Medium

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16
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Plural for medium

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Media

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17
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Objects in art that symbolize or have an additional or hidden meaning

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Symbolism

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18
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Art created by an artist with little or no formal art training

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Folk Art

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19
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The Role of the Artist (6)

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1 Create places for human purpose
2 Create extraordinary versions of everyday objects
3 Record (history) and Commemorate
4 Give tangible (visible) form to unknown
5 Create feelings and ideas
6 Give a new way of seeing the world

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20
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“Housepainter III” sculpture by

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Duane Hanson

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21
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“Housepainter III” represents

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Photorealistic

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22
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“Starry Night” painted by

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Vincent Van Gogh

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23
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“Starry Night” represents

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Stylized

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24
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Logos represent

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Abstraction

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25
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Collages by Romare Bearden represent

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Abstraction

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26
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A reaction to Hitler’s aerial bombing of the city (contains abstract, symbolism, and expression)

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“Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

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27
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“Mona Lisa” painted by

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Leonardo de Vinci

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28
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Where “Mona Lisa” is displayed

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Louvre

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29
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One of the most important museums in the world

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Louvre

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30
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Contains stones and weighs 50 tons

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Stonehenge

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31
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Stonehenge represents

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Visual Art

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32
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Chuck Close self-portraits left and right side represents

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left=Photorealism ; right=Abstract/Optical Mixing

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33
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Created for dead Pharoahs and items for the afterlife, also created for Gods

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Pyramids

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34
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The path of a moving point, mark used to draw, outline a shape, and creates a path for the eye to follow

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Line

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35
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A line that is calm, rest, peace, lazy, death, stagnant, and wide open spaces

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Horizontal Line

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36
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A line that is dignity, religious, upright, strength, power, and pious

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Vertical Line

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37
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A line is excitement, energy, action, drama, spontaneous, anger, aggression, and combative

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Curved / Diagonal Line

38
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Visually suggested Lines (ex. pointing your finger)

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Implied Lines

39
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Outline any edges

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Contour Lines

40
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Lines that vary in thickness

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Calligraphic Lines

41
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A system of correctly showing how objects go back into space using an eye level or horizontal lines and vainsh

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Linear Perspective

42
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Darkness or lightness of an object (ex. The earth shining on it)

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Value/Light

43
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Light to dark

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Chiaroscuro

44
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The area where the light strikes directly so it will reflect the most light, making it the brightest spot

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Highlight

45
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Area around the highlight

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Light area

46
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From the light it becomes dark

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Shadow

47
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The area one the opposite side of the light making it the darkest area

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Shadow Core

48
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Reflects light on the shadow core (ex. Photographers use reflectors to brighten a shadow)

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Reflected Light

49
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Created by blocking light and casting darkness behind the subject (ex. Moonlight is so bright that you can see your shadow)

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Cast Shadow

50
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Surface feel or how the surface would appear to feel

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Texture

51
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Areas with definable boundaries (ex. defined by color, texture, value, or outlined)

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Shape

52
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Formal shapes (ex. circle or square)

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Geometric Shapes

53
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Less formal or precise shapes

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Organic Shapes

54
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Background or unoccupied spaces (also called negative spaces)

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Negative Shapes

55
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Element that affects your life

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Color

56
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Primary colors are __ and are need to __

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Red, Blue, & Yellow ; mix any color

57
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Secondary colors are __

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Orange, Purple, & Green

58
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Yellow+Blue=

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Green

59
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Red+Blue=

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Purple

60
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Red+Yellow=

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Orange

61
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Mixtures of primary & secondary colors

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Intermediate Colors

62
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Colors that feel warm (usually advance toward the viewer)

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Warm Colors

63
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Warm colors are

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Red, orange, & yellow

64
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Cool colors are

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Blue, green, & purple

65
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Colors that feel cool

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Cool colors

66
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Natural color (ex. green=grass

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Local colors

67
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Measures of color’s strength (darkness to brightness

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Intensity

68
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Colors opposite on the color wheel (ex. red=green ; blue=orange)

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Complementary Colors

69
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Seeing a color’s opposite (complementary) after staring at a color

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Simultaneous Contrast

70
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A color scheme using one color (ex. dark red and light red)

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Monochromatic

71
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Colors closely related or near each other on the color wheel

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Analogous Colors

72
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In the distance, colors become lighter and less intense

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Atmospheric Persective

73
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Allows viewer to mix colors with their eyes using dots

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Optical Mixing

74
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The human eye can see over __ colors

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7 million

75
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A lasting impression made in 90 sec. and only __ percent has to do with color

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60

76
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What can sway your thinking, decision, emotions, reactions, headaches, confusion, rejection, success, and failure

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Color

77
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What color has most power to effect your emotions

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Red

78
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The most visible color and irrates your eyes

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Yellow

79
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The color that supresses your appetite and its calm, slows heart rate, and its youthful

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Blue

80
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Most restful color to your eye and sooths pain and represents freshness

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Green

81
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The visual weight of objects placed in compositon

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Balance

82
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Similar to a mirrored image

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Symmetrical balance

83
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Different on both sides

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Asymmetical balance

84
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Arranging objects that directs your eye

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Movement

85
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Prevents boredom and creates interest

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Variety

86
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One color, shape, value should be dominate

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Dominance

87
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Not over dong it

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Economy

88
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K.I.S.S represents

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Keep It Simple Stupid

89
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The size relationships between the individual and parts of the whole

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Proportion

90
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Shapes and patterns repeated helps the eye flow

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Pattern, Rhythm, and Repetition

91
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Goal is for the art to unify into one harmonizing piece (includes the frame, signature, sculpture stand, and everything must go to toward unity

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Unity

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