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Art Terminologies

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show A product of human effort in which materials are skillfully ordered to communicate a human experience  
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Asymmetrical Balance   show
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show A feeling of equality in weight, attention, or attraction of the various visual elements within the pictorial field as means of accomplishing organic unity.  
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Biomorphic Shapes   show
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Cast Shadow   show
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Chiaroscuro   show
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Composition   show
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show A comprehensive idea or generalization which brings diverse elements into some basic relationship  
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Content   show
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show The comparative relationship between two or more relatively opposed elements or forces.  
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Craftsmanship   show
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Design   show
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Esthetics   show
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Eye Level   show
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Figure-Ground   show
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Fine Art   show
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Formal Balance   show
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show The representation of forms on a two dimensional surface so that the long axis(es) appears to project toward the viewer.  
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show In the broadest sense, the total physical characteristics of an object, event, or situation.  
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Format   show
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Ground   show
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Mass   show
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Medium   show
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show Arranging bits of pliable material into 3D forms. Form of additive sculpture. Effect of light falling on a 3D object so that its forms are defined & dramatized by highlights and shadows--painting areas of varying tonalities to represent such.  
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show A background or ground shape produced by its interaction with foreground or figure shape(s).  
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Non-objective   show
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show an impersonal statement of observed facts. In art, the exact rendering by the artist of surface characteristics without alteration or interpretation of the visual image.  
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show mechanical system of creating illusion of a 3D space on a two dimensional surface. Linear perspective is primarily linear in treatment. Aerial or atmospheric perspective uses value and color modification to suggest or enhance the effect of space/  
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Picture plane   show
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Pictorial space   show
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show Enclosed areas which represent the initial selection of shapes planned by the artist. May suggest recognizable objects or merely be planned nonrepresentational shapes.  
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Proportion   show
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Shape   show
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Space   show
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Unity   show
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Value   show
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show psychological response to a form with regard to its importance in a composition. the weight is a function of the size, shape, texture, and color of the form, its position relative to the other components of the structure, and its metaphoric content.  
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show the space occupied by an object  
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show Technique of painting with pigments dissolved in hot wax  
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Fresco   show
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Tempera Painting   show
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show a painting executed with pigments mixed with oil applied either to a panel prepared with gesso or to stretched canvas primed with a coat of white paint and glued.  
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Watercolor   show
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Acrylic   show
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show Opaque watercolors  
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Collage   show
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Mosaic   show
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show Paint thinner  
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Gesso   show
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Impasto   show
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Glaze   show
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Alla Prima   show
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