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Art Nomenclature
English AP Blake Vocab
| definition | Term |
|---|---|
| A term which encompasses qualities of line, shape, color, light, texture, space, mass, volume, and composition | Form |
| A visual aspect which exhibits hue, value, and saturation | Color |
| An attribute of form whose length is perceived over its width; it can be visual or implied | Line |
| A line which connects to itself, making a 2D closed form of contour, height, and width, but without depth. Includes categories such as geometric, rectilinear, curvilinear, organic, mechanical, man-made, symbolic, overlapping, intersecting, and invented. | Shape |
| Differing wavelengths of electromagnetic energy; red through violet | Hue |
| Red, yellow, and blue | Primary colors |
| Orange, green, and violet | Secondary colors |
| Mixture of primary and secondary colors | Tertiaries |
| Tactile quality of a surface | Texture |
| Representational or actual container of forms | Space |
| Solid matter that takes up space | Mass |
| Enclosed or defined space | Volume |
| Foreground, middle ground, background | Foreground, middle ground (..?) |
| A perspective wherein partially covered elements seem to be located behind those covering them | Overlapping |
| A perspective wherein the scale of objects becomes successively smaller and elements appear as being farther away from the larger ones | Diminution |
| A perspective wherein elements are stacked with the higher elements being perceived as deeper in space | Vertical perspective |
| A perspective wherein objects in the far distance have less clarity and, often, bluish-gray hues, with a sky that becomes paler as it approaches the horizon | Atmospheric perspective |
| A perspective wherein all elements are shaped by, or arranged along, orthogonals that converge in one or more vanishing points on a horizon line | Linear perspective |
| subject matter (if present) deriving from social, political, religious, or economic contexts wherein there is artist intention and viewer reception. Subject matter is interpretive and includes icons and symbols | Content |
| Straight, curved, zigzag, meandering, squiggled, angular, massed, and spiraling | Directions |
| the manner in which a composition holds together, the way the parts visually cohere. Compositional components must harmonize in order to integrate, which is achieved visually and thematically. It is achieved through repetition, variety, similarity...+ | Unity |
| both an element and a principle which is also known as proportion. It is the relative size of objects in relation to other objects and space in the picture plane. | Scale |
| The arrangement of forms | Composition |
| denoting the way in which our eye moves through a composition. It can be legato—a smooth unbroken path through a composition or staccato—a broken "on and off" configuration of disconnected repetitious parts, a visual beat. | Visual rhythm |
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