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Art
Chapter 4 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| style | characteristic manner or mode of art expression or design |
| realism | style characterized by accurate and truthful portrayal of subject matter |
| representational art | art that presents natural objects in a recognizable form |
| expressionistic art | typically associated with vivid colors, vigorous brushwork, distortion |
| nonobjective | art that doesn't portray a figure or object, no real model or subject matter |
| cubism | developed by Picasso and Braque that emphasized the 2 dimensionality of the canvas |
| psychic automatism | generates imagery through ideas received from unconscious mind and unrestrained matter |
| form | totality of what the viewer sees in the work, product of composition of visual elements |
| content | all that is contained in a work of art: elements, subject matter, and underlying meanings or themes |
| iconography | set of conventional meanings attached to the images, study of visual symbols and their meanings |
| allegory | narrative in which people and events have been given consistent symbolistic meanings. |