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A technique used in drawing to indicate light and shade, or form, consisting of parallel lines of varying width, darkness and spacing. Cross-hatching is simply two or more overlapping sets of these parallel sets of lines, at a perpendicular or other angle to the first set of lines.

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Hatching

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Referring to the actual color of a form or object, e.g., a red car.

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hue

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Knowledge of the meanings to be attached to pictorial representations; perhaps the visual equivalent of symbols or metaphors in literature.

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iconography

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Art which aims to be the true, eternal reality. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this included some Neoclassical art, which emulated the forms and ideas found in classical art (Greece and Rome).

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ideal art

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An Italian term for oil paint applied very thickly onto the canvas or other support, resulting in evident brushstrokes (visible).

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impasto

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A type of art, usually sculptural, which is often large enough to fill an entire space, such as a gallery, and consists of a number and variety of components. _______ art perhaps began in the 1960’s with Ed Kienholz and George Segal, two American sculptors.

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installation

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Describing a quality related to the use of line in painting or sculpture; can refer to directional movement in composition, or the actual use of the element of line in the image or sculpture, as contrasted with the use of mass or shape forms.

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linear

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The actual color of a form or object, uninfluenced by the effects of light or reflected color. For instance, a vase may be turquoise (the local color), but appear pale blue because of sunlight hitting it in certain places; dark blue because of areas in shadow; and many subtle color shades in certain areas because of reflected light from surrounding surfaces.

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local color

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A quality applied to various art forms (poetry, prose, visual art, dance and music), referring to a certain ethereal, musical, expressive, or poetic quality of artistic expression.

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lyrical

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a style of art in 16th century Italy, characterized by somewhat distorted (usually human) forms and a high emotional key. Practitioners included the artist Pontormo. In modern and contemporary art, the term _____ when applied to a style or work of art is somewhat critical, implying that the style or work of art is done not from the inner convictions and perceptions of the artist, but rather out of the artist’s historical artistic habits or preconceptions. In other words, the work appears contrived or forced, as opposed to arrived at by genuine and self-aware creative impulses.

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mannerism/mannered

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Shapes or forms used in visual art, as contrasted with lines; also ______ often form the large part(s) of the compositional structure, without the additional complexity of detail.

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mass/masses

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Material or technique an artist works in; also, the (usually liquid or semi-liquid) vehicle in which pigments are carried or mixed (e.g., oil, egg yolk, water, refined linseed oil).

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medium

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A type of kinetic sculpture (that which moves), invented and first used by the artist Alexander Calder. Trained as an engineer, Calder built many hanging mobiles with various attached forms, which moved and changed with air currents, etc.

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mobile

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Three-dimensional effect created by the use of changes in color, the use of lights and darks, cross-hatching, etc.

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modeling

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Generally considered to be the period from about 1905-6 to the mid-1950’s, when Pop art ushered in what is referred to as the postmodern period in art. ____ ____ is generally characterized by formal experimentation and exploration, and mostly seriousness of purpose. (Dada and Surrealism may be the exceptions to this rule.)

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modern art

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A French term which refers to: the subject matter or content of a work of art; also refers to a visual element used in a work of art, as in a recurring _____ (i.e., Warhol used the ___ of soup cans in his early works; or Mondrian used rectangles as a visual ___.

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motif

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A style of painting which uses an analysis of tone (value) and color of its subject, resulting in a representation of the appearance of forms or landscapes.

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naturalism

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In a painting or sculpture, the areas where there are no forms (the “empty” areas). In a painting, this means the areas which have no forms or objects (sometimes also called the ‘background’ ). In sculpture, this means the “holes” between forms or within a form (e.g., Henry Moore sculptures).

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negative space

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A color which in color theory is neither warm nor cool. ____ _____ are said to result from the combination of two complementary colors (e.g., red and green, blue and orange, and yellow and purple)

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neutral color

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A term used to describe visual art which is not based on existing, observable forms, but rather on abstract or idealized forms, such as geometric, mathematical, imaginary, etc.

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non-objective

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art which is not based on external appearances; this covers several types of art - abstract, non-objective, and decorative; as contrasted with representational art, which is art based on “real” imagery, whether actually existent or existent only in the artist’s imagination.

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non-representational