Gateways to Art - 1.1

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Style

a characteristic way in which an artist or group of artists uses visual language to give a work an identifiable form of visual expression

Contrast

a drastic difference between such elements as color or value

Plane

a flat surface

Implied Line

a line not actually drawn but suggested by elements in the work

Line

a mark, or implied mark, between two endpoints

Etching

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

Positive shape

a shape defined by its surrounding empty space

Conceptual Art

a work in which the ideas are often important as how it is made

Collage

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

Highlight

an area of lightest value in a work

Pattern

an arrangement of predictably repeated elements

Negative space

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

Facade

any side of a building usually the front or entrance

Abstract

art imagery that departs from recognizable images from the natural world

Two-dimensional

having height and width

Concentric

identical shapes stacked inside each other sharing the same center, for example the circles on a target

Automatic

suppressing conscious control to access subconscious sources of creativity and truth

Principles

the "grammar" applied to the elements of art - contrast, balance, unity, variety, rhythm, emphasis, pattern, scale, proportion and focal point

Elements

the basic vocabulary of art - line, form, shape, volume, mass, color, texture, space, time and motion, value

Space

the distance between identifiable points or planes

Color

the optical effect caused when reflected white lights of the spectrum is divided into a separate wavelength

Outline

the outermost line of an object or figure, by which it is defined or bounded

Background

the part of a work depicted furthest from the viewer's space, often behind the main subject matter

Rhythm

the regular or ordered repetition of elements in the work

Figure-ground reversal

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

Volume

the space filled or enclosed by a three-dimensional figure or object

Shape

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

Actual Line

A continuous, uninterrupted line


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