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| Produces a world, not as is but as the artist thinks it should be |
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| Tending to or expressing an awareness of things as they really are |
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1) works of art that have no reference at all to the natural objects
2) Works that depict natural objects in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways |
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| precise and balanced/having no balance or symmetry |
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Presents visual forms with no specific references to anything outside themselves
(it can offer ways of seeing) |
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| when artists use unrealistic colors and portraits sometimes has minimal reference to reality |
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| a form of perspective in drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as converging so as to give the illusion of depth and distance. |
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| a means of indicating relative distance in terms of a gradation of clarity, tone and color, especially blue. |
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| emphasize two hues directly opposite each other on the wheel such as red and green |
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| the place where land and sky appear to meet. (or sea or sky) |
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| when paint has been applied to thickly (painting) |
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| when the story moves from one point in time to another sequentially. |
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| the structure of an object/refers to the total effect of the combined visual qualities within a work, including such component as materials, color, shape, line & design. |
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| a tie, beam, or girder, used to support floor joists |
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| a spacial device in which elevation on the page or format indicates recession into depth |
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| a paint consisting of pigment mixed with beeswax and fixed with heat after its application |
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| a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots, which become blended in the viewer's eye. |
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| a three-dimensional area, the physical bulk of a solid body of material/when a mass encloses space. |
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the ratio that defines the size relationships.
used to create the illusion of correct size relationships between objects and figures |
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refers to the relative lightness and darkness of surfaces
ranges from white through various grays to black
can be considered as a property of colors or an element independent of color. |
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| based on variations in the value and intensity of a single hue |
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| refers to the purity of hue or color |
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| a circullar diagram in which primary and usually intermediate colors are arranged sequentially so that related colors are next to each other and complementary colors are opposite. |
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Primary Color
Secondary Color |
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-cannot be created by mixing other colors.
-made by mixing 2 or more primary colors. |
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| the initial coating put on a support before you paint on it. It protects the support from the paint, some of which contain components that could damage it, provides the key(suface) for the paint to stick to, and affects the absorbency of the support. |
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| a painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk |
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| shading from light to dark |
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| dry coloring matter, usually an insoluble powder, to be mixed with water, oil, or another base to produce paint and similar products |
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| refers to a particular wavelength of spectral color to which we give a name |
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