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WGU Visual Arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tempra | painting |
| Aquatint | Print Making |
| Monotype | Printmaking |
| High-relief | sculpture |
| Silk Screen | Printmaking |
| Acrylic | Painting |
| Theatrical Comedy | There are tpe characters, satirical criticism of antisocial behavior, exaggeration and a happy ending |
| Art as therapy | a means to speak to society, act out problems |
| Composition | Arrangment of details and opbjects in the total structure of the artwork |
| Movement | The way an object controls the direction and space of viewers vision |
| Chiaroscuro | Use of light and shadow |
| Balance | Equilibrium of visual forces |
| Perspective | giving depth from 2 dementional art to 3 dementional art |
| Dry media | pastel, charcoal, graphite |
| Pen and Ink | wet media applied with a brush or pen |
| Gouache | opaque water color |
| High-relief | art that sticks out from the background |
| Proportion | size relationship between objectsq |
| Full-round | art that stands alone and can be walked around |
| Mass | weight of an object or perceived weight |
| Shape | color, texture, or line to create boundries |
| Ephemeral | Non-permanent or temporary artwork |
| Low-relief | art that slightly sticks up from the background |
| Sculpture in the round | Walk all the way around the work |
| Sunken - relief | etching into artwork |
| one-point perspective | one focal point |
| two- point perspective | two focal points |
| Vanishing point | gives the illusion of distance |
| Red | Primary |
| Orange | Secondary |
| Yellow | Primary |
| Green | Secondary |
| Blue Green | Tertiary |
| Split Compliment for yellow | Blue Violet and Red Violet |
| Split Compliment for Red | Yellow green and Blue Green |
| Split Compliment for Blue | yellow orange and orange red |
| Split Compliment for Yellow Green | Violet and Red |
| Split Compliment for Yellow Orange | Blue and Violet |
| Split Compliment for Orange Red | Green and Blue |
| Split Compliment for Red Violet | Red and Violet |
| Split Compliment for Blue Violet | Yellow and Orange |
| Split Compliment for Blue Green | Orange and Red |
| Split Compliment for Yellow Green | Red and Violet |
| Complimentry Color to red | Green |
| Complimentry Color to Violet | Yellow |
| Complimentry Color to Blue | Orange |
| Analagist Colors | 3 or 5 adjasent colors on wheel |
| Beat | Basic time unit of music |
| Lyrics | Verse or poem sung with music |
| Legato | even playing of notes without break |
| Dynamics | Varying Degrees of loud and softness |
| Coda | Closing section appended to a movement |
| Theme | Reoccuring melody throught music |
| Motive | recurring melody, theme, idea, or element |
| Motif | recurring melody, theme, idea, or element |
| Symphony | music for orchestra including 4 distinct and contrasting movements |
| Ballade | A short lyrical piece for piano |
| Sonata form | exposition, development, and recapitulation |
| Concerto | One or more solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra |
| Overture | orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio |
| Cantata | Choral or solo vocal form developed in the Baroque period based on secular or religious text, generally with several movements and instrumental ensemble accompaniment. |
| Plot | Structure of the story |
| Stylized movements in ballet | Arabisque, En pointe, Releve |
| Dada | Antieverything |
| Botticelli | Renaissance |
| Durer | Renaissance |
| da Vinci | Renaissance |
| Michelangelo | Renaissance |
| Raphael | Renaissance |
| Donattello | Renaissance |
| Giovanni | Renaissance |
| Shakespear | Renaissance |
| Rembrandt | Broque |
| Vermeer | Broque |
| Rubens | Broque |
| Brinini | Broque |
| Bivaldi | Broque |
| Bach | Brque |
| Pannini | Rococo |
| Jacqes-Louis-David | Rococo |
| Jacqes-Louis-David | Neoclassicism |
| BeaUmarchais | Rococo |
| Mozart | Rococo |
| Goya | Romantic |
| Delacroix | Romantic |
| Delaroche | Romantic |
| Courbet | Romantic |
| Garnier | Romantic |
| Dickenson | Romantic |
| Keats | Romantic |
| Beethoven | Romantic |
| Schubert | Romantic |
| Schopin | Romantic |
| Schuman | Romantic |
| Tchaikovsky | Romantic |
| Monet | Impressionism |
| Manet | Impressionism |
| Renoir | Impressionism |
| Rodin | Impressionism |
| Van Gogh | Impressionism |
| Seurat | Impressionism |
| Eakins | Impressionism |
| Homer | Post Impressionism |
| Cezanne | Post Impressionism |
| Matisse | Post Impressionism |
| Picasso | Post Impressionism |
| Rousseau | Post Impressionism |
| Modigliani | Post Impressionism |
| Rodin | Post Impressionism |
| Stravinsky | Post Impressionism |
| Jazz | Post Impressionism |
| Steighitz | Post Impressionism |
| Steichen | Post Impressionism |
| Abstract Impressionism | Rejects true visual representation |
| Abstract Impressionism | Emphadsis on color, line, shape, texture,a nd value |
| Abstract Impressionism | Puts expression above all else |
| Asthetics | philisophical study |
| Allegory | represents something with symbols and symbolic meaning |
| Cubism | Attemts to capture three dementional objects on a two dementional surface |
| asseblige | 3-D Collage |
| Demensions | Measurment |
| Elements of Art | color,value,line,shape,form,texture,space |
| Color | relected light |
| value | meaning of worth |
| line | mark created with start and stop points |
| shape | represented in 2-dementional |
| form | 3-dementional |
| texture | physical feeling by touch or preseved feeling |
| space | emptyness around objects |
| Emotionism | viewer feels |
| Expressionism | Artist feels |
| Foreshortning | Illussion - distorts and object |
| Fresco | type of painting that color absorbs into plaster |
| Higher anchle perportion | Most important |
| Impressionism | everyday scenes and light of objects |
| Minimalism | minimum of elements |
| monochromatic | diffrent shades of a single color |
| mood | feeling infered by artist but its felt by the viewer |
| How is movement created in a painting | repitition, adding lines, and carefull placement of objects |
| parody | Poke Fun |
| performance art | Live theatrical performance |
| perspective | 3-D on a flat surface |
| postitive space | area filled with meaningful intentions |
| negative space | meaningless objects |
| radial balance | circular format |
| realism | paint as they are |
| rythm | visual movement breated by repetition of a certain element |
| semitry | mirror image |
| Trompel ' oeil | to trick the eye |
| weight | phsychological or visual importants |
| Vase | reptition, symetry, Line |
| Forshadowing | Action logical |
| Discovery | Information you have to have or the drama is not effective |
| reversal | any turn of fortune |
| protaganist | centeral person |
| misc-en-scene | visual elements |