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Includes painting, drawing, graphic arts, and photography. Width, height, and illusion of depth on a flat surface.
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Includes sculpture, architecture, and most of the decorative arts. Width, height, and depth.
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A ____ a moving point on the surface of a canvas, a paper, a slab of clay, or other media. A ____ has a width as well as length. Contour uses a simple single line to describe a form.
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_____ line:
A real line!
______ line:
What appears to be a line, but really isn’t a line! It’s a line in an artwork that is not particularly there but appears to be there.
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_____ lines are stable, steady, and religious. ______ lines are calm, peaceful, lazy. _____ lines are graceful and gentle. ______ lines create feelings of tension and unpredictability. _____ lines are busy, active, angry, and dangerous.
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_____:
Flat, 2D. ______ is a 2D area, geometric or organic, defined by a boundary.
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____/____:
3D, NOT FLAT! _____ are 3-dimensional shapes, geometric or organic, open or closed, having height, width, and depth.
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Volume: _______:
There are obvious shapes in it. (_______ shape= A shape that is regular, easy to measure, and easy to describe, unlike an _______ shape, which is irregular, difficult to measure, and difficult to describe.
Volume: ______:
The shapes aren’t so obvious, it’s more flowing. (_______ shape= A shape characteristic of living things and thus appearing soft, curvilinear and irregular. Contrast with _______ shape).
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The lightness or darkness of a color.
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The segment of the spectrum of electromagnetic energy that stimulates the eyes and produces visual sensations.
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An artistic technique in which subtle gradations of value create the illusion of rounded three-dimensional forms in space; also termed modeling (from Italian for “light-dark”).
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Colors that work well together and are pleasing to the eye.
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_______:
1 color + black and white
________:
Opposites on the color wheel
_______:
3 colors next to each other on the color wheel
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Color; the distinctive characteristics of a color that enable us to label it (as blue or green, for example) and to assign it a place in the visible spectrum.
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The degree of purity of hue measured by its intensity or brightness.
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The degree of darkness of a color determined by the extent of its mixture with black.
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The lightness of a color as determined by the extent of its mixture with white.
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______ ______:
The hue of an object created by the colors its surface reflects under normal lighting conditions (contrast with _____ color.) Color is natural rather than symbolic of the depicted objects.
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______ _____:
The perception of the color of an object, which may vary markedly according to atmospheric conditions.
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The way things feel or appear to feel.
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The actual texture of the paint.
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The illusion of texture! Like a painting of nails isn’t really pointy b/c it’s a painting, duh!
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There it is no illusion, it’s how it really feels. Ex: sculpture!
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Simulated texture in a work of art; the use of line, color, and other visual elements to create the illusion of various textures in flat drawings and paintings. Contrast with abstract texture.
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The size of an object or figure in relation to other objects or figures or the setting.