Vocabulary

Question 1

Element of Art: Used with any mark-making tool, able to define a focal point, or take the viewers attention

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Line

Question 2

Element of Art: Describes an object’s two-dimensional area

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Shape

Question 3

Element of Art: Describes an object’s three-dimensional area

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Form

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Element of Art: Related to the organization of objects and areas

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Space

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Element of Art: Central element based off of different pigments

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Color

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Element of Art: How it would feel if touched

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Texture

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Composition: Associated with movement or pattern

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Rhythm

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Single instance of a repetitious pattern

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Motif

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Distribution of visual weight

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Balance

Question 10

Elements are repeated exactly on both sides of the center

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Symmetrical balance

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Organization of unlike objects which creates balance without two identical halves

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Asymmetrical Balance

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The size relationships among the parts of a composition

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Proportion

Question 13

Size of the entire work compared to sizes in real life

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Scale

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Creates different light values by making patterns with dots

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Stippling

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Cuts away parts from the canvas, the remaining parts become outlined

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Relief Printmaking

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Opposite of Relief Printmaking

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Intaglio Printmaking

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Printmaking where Image is drawn directly onto canvas

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Lithography

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Natural or synthetic finely-ground materials

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Pigment

Question 19

Holds pigment together, allows paint to stick to a surface

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Binder

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Changes consistence of work or alters drying time

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Solvent

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Mixing pigments with water

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Fresco

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Water-based oil paintings

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Tempera

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Glazes

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Thin transparent layers to change the composition slightly

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Gouache

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Water-based opaque paint

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Sculpture with all sides showing

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Freestanding

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Sculpture that sticks out from a surface or background

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Relief

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Sculpture where some of the original material is removed

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Carving

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When materials are added to form a sculpture

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Modeling

Question 29

Encased in plaster, and removed to use as a mold

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Cast Form

Question 30

Where the artist engages in visual production, sometimes involving audience

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Performance

Question 31

Chordophone

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Instrument with one or more strings

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Aerophones

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Vibrating column of air

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Membranophones

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Skin or other membrane stretched across

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Idiophones

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Vibrates when struck

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Electrophones

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Mechanical device creating sound waves

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Strings

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Stringed instruments, bowed or plucked

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Brass

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Metal aerophone

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Woodwind

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Aerophone where column is moved by breath

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Percussion

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Struck to make noise

Question 40

Highness or Lowness of a sound

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Pitch

Question 41

Distance from one pitch to the next higher or lower similar pitch

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Octave

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Distance between each individual note on a piano

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Half step

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Distance between two half steps

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Whole step

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Cancels a sharp or flat notation

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Natural

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Raised by a half step

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Sharp

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Lowered by a half step

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Flat

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Type of ladder to indicate pitches

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Staff

Question 48

Derived from french word for Key

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Clef

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A series of pitches to form a whole piece of music

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Melody

Question 50

The way audible music is organized in time

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Rhythm

Question 51

Pulse that underlies most music

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Beat

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Speed of beat

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Tempo

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Absence of tempo

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Unmetered

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Emphasized notes fall on off-beats

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Syncopation

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Polyrhythm

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Two separate rhythms are played together

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Three or more pitches sounding simultaneously

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Chord

Question 57

Set of sharps or flats indicating the key of the music

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Key signature

Question 58

Series of chords moves from dissonance to consonance

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Harmonic Progression

Question 59

Simultaneous melodies are in different registers

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Counterpoint