Art

Question 1

Readymade

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Every day object presented as a work of art. Marcel Duchamp - Fountain, Bottlerack

Question 2

Medium

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Material on or from which an artist chooses to make a work of art.

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Print

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Picture reproduced on paper, often in multiple copies

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Watercolor

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Transparent paint made from pigment and a binder dissolved in water.

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Medieval

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Relating to the Middle Ages; roughly between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance

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Renaissance

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Period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.

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Calligraphy

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Art of emotive or carefully descriptive hand lettering or handwriting.

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Ceramic

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Fire-hardened clay, often painted, and normally sealed with shiny protective coating.

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Patron

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Organization or individual who sponsorts the creation of works of art.

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Manuscripts

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Handwritten texts

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Guilds

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Medieval associations of artists, craftsmen, or tradesmen

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Academies

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Institutions training artists in both the theory of art and practical techniques.

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Provenance

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Record of all known previous owners and locations of a work or art.

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Mural

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Painting executed directly on to a wall.

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Neutral Tones

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Colors (such as blacks, whites, grays, and dull gray-brown) made by mixing complementary hues.

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Oil Paint

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Paint made of pigment suspended in oil.

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Ivory

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Hard, creamy-colored material from the tusks of such mammals as elephants.

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Elements

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Basic vocabulary of art - line, form, shape, volume, mass, color, texture, space, time and motion, and value (lightness/darkness)

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Principles

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“Grammar” applied to the elements of art - contrast, balance, unity, variety, rhythm, emphasis, pattern, scale, proportion, and focal point.

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Two-dimensional

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Having heights and width.

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Line

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Mark, or implied mark, between two endpoints.

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Shape

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Two-dimensional area the boundaries of which are defined by lines or suggested by changes in color or value.

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Contrast

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Drastic difference between such elements as color or value (lightness/darkness)

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Outline

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Outermost line of which an object or figure, by which it is defined or bounded.

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Plane

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Flat surface

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Facade

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Any side of a building, usually the front or entrance.

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Conceptual Art

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Work in which the ideas are often as important as how it is made.

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Automatic

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Suppressing conscious control to access subconscious sources of creativity and truth.

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Style

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Characteristic way in which an artist or group of artists uses visual language to give a work an identifiable for of visual expression.

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Actual Line

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Continuous uninterrupted line.

Question 31

Implied Line

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Line not actually drawn but suggested by elements in the work.

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Rhythm

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Regular or ordered repetition of elements in the work.

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Etching

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Printmaking process that relies on acid to bite (or etch) the engraved design into the printing surface.

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Background

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Part of a work depicted furthest from the viewer's space, often behind the main subject manner.

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Volume

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Space filled or enclosed by a three-dimensional figure or object.

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Space

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Distance between identifiable points or planes.

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Color

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Optical effect caused when reflected white light of the spectrum is divided into a separate wavelength.

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Collage

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Work of art assembled by gluing materials, often paper, onto a surface. From the French coller, to glue.

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Pattern

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Arrangement of predictably repeated elements.

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Highlight

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Area of lightest value in a work.

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Positive Shape

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Shape defined by its surrounding empty space.

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Negative Space

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Empty space given shape by its surround, for example the right-pointing arrow between the E and X in FedEx.

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Abstract

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Art imagery that departs from recognizable images from the natural world.

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Woodcut

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Print created from an incised piece of wood.

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Figure-Ground Reversal

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Reversal of the relationship between one shape (the figure) and its background (the ground), so that the figure becomes background and the ground becomes the figure.

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Concentric

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Identical shapes stacked inside each other sharing the same center, for example the circles of a target.