FINAL Flashcards

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The total appearance, organization, or inventive arrangement of all the visual elements according to the principles of organization:

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Form

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What are the Principles of Organization?

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Harmony and Variety
Proportion
Balance
Dominance
Movement
Economy
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When a work of art successfully utilizes the principles of organization, the result is

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Space and Visual Unity

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Name 4 of the methods for creating harmony in a work of art:

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Repetition, rhythm, pattern, Closure, and Visual Unity

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What are the three components of a work of art?

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Subject, Form, and Concept

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An approach to art where no personal interpretation is introduced by the artist:

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Naturalism

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What are the Elements of Art?

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Line, Color, Texture, Shape, and Value

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A work of art that is completely imaginative:

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Nonobjective

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The actual flat surface on which the artist executes a pictorial image:

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Picture plane

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The knowledge of materials and the skillful handling of them:

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Craftsmanship

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The line that defines the outermost limits of an object or a drawn or painted shape:

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Contour

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A line that dims, fades, stops, and/or disappears, but is visually completed by the viewer:

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Implied

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__________ lines are lines that are drawn freely, quickly, and seemingly without inhibition in order to capture the intrinsic spirit and animation seen in the subject.

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Gestural

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A line that moves across a shape or object to define the surface undulations between the outermost edges:

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Cross-contour

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Repeated stories of an art tool, producing clustered (usually parallel) lines that create values:

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Hatching

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A line that indicates space that is flat:

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decorative

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_________ refers to the length and width of a line.

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Measure

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A shape that does not physically exist but is suggested through the psychological connection of dots, line areas ore their edges:

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Implied

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A 3D shape possesses the illusion of having

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Height, width, and depth

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A shape whose boundaries consist of straight lines:

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rectilinear

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An irregular shape that resembles the freely developed curves found in living organisms:

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Biomorphic

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A 2D shape possesses the dimensions of

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Height and Width

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the opposite of a shape whose boundaries consist of straight lines

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Curvilinear

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A shape that is derived from the mind, instead of physical reality:

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subjective

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What is High Key?
mostly light grays
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differences of lightness or darkness without regard to hue or intensity:
achromatic
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the relative degree of lightness or darkness:
value
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What is Low Key?
mostly dark grays
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the relative degree flightless or darkness demonstrated by given color:
chromatic
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the relative degree flightless or darkness demonstrated by given color:
chromatic
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A technique devised by Leonardo da Vinci of softly blending areas from light to dark, creating subtle transitions:
Sfumato
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A technique of painting that exaggerates or emphasizes the effects of chiaroscuro
Tenebrism
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the arrangement or organization of values that control compositional movement and create unifying effect throughout a work of art:
Value Pattern
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The relative lightness or darkness of a surface, seen in the objective world, that is independent of any effect created by the degree of light falling on it:
Local value
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The saturation, strength, or purity of a hue
Chroma
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Two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel:
Complimentary
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Having only one hue; may include the complete range of value
Monochromatic
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A color produced by mixing white with a hue:
tint
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A color substance that gives its color property to another by being mixed wit it or covering it:
pigment
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a color and the two colors on either side of its complement:
Split-complement
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a color produced by a mixture of a primary and a secondary color:
intermediate
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The illusion of depth produced in graphic works by lightening values, softening details and textures, reducing contrasts, and neutralizing colors in objects as the recede:
Atmospheric Perspective
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The relative degree of lightness or darkness:
Value
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A copying of nature with such exactitude as to be mistaken for the real thing:
Trompe O'leil
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A convincing copy or translation of an object's texture:
Simulated Texture
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A surface that can be experienced through the sense of touch:
Actual Texture
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A created texture whose only source is the artist's imagination:
Invented texture