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| A process or visual effect characterized by the simplification and/or rearrangement of the image |
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| The expression, essential meaning, significance, or aesthetic value of a work of art. Content refers to the sensory, subjective, psychological, or emotional properties we feel in a work of art, as opposed to our perception of its descriptive aspects alone |
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| Aptitude, skill, or quality workmanship in use of tools and materials. |
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| The two-dimensional nature of an artwork or any of its elements, which emphasizes the essential flatness of a surface; also has generically referred to the ornamentation or enrichment of a surface. |
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| The underlying plans on which artist base their total work. In a broader sense, design may be considered synonymous with the term form or composition. |
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| Line, shape, value, texture, and color-the basic ingredients the artist imagery. Their use produces the visual language of art. |
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| The manifestation through artistic form of thought, emotion, or quality of meaning. |
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| The total appearance, organization or inventive arrangement of all the visual elements according to the principles that will develop unity in the artwork. |
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| In graphic art, a shape that appears to stand out three-dimensionally from the space surrounding it, or that it appears to create the illusion of a solid body of material |
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| The material(s) and tool(s) used by the artist to create the visual elements perceived by the viewer |
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| The unoccupied or empty space left after the positive elements have been created by the artist. |
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| Nonobjective, nonrepresentational (art) |
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| A type of art that is entirely imaginative in which the elements, their organization, and their treatment are entirely personalized and the image is not derived from anything visually perceived by the artist |
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| That which is based on the physical reality of the object and reflects no personal interpretation, bias, or emotion; the opposite of subjective |
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| The actual flat surface on which the artist executes a pictorial image. In some cases, the picture plane acts merely as a transparent plane of reference to establish the illusion of forms existing in a three-dimensional space |
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| The use of the elements to create the illusion of the third dimension on a two-dimensional surface |
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| The subject- whether representational or nonrepresentational-which is produces by the art elements (shape, line, etc)or their combination |
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| The interval, or measureable distance, between points or images |
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| That which is derived from the mind, instead of physical reality, and reflects a personal viewpoint, bias, emotion, or innovative interpretation: the opposite of objective |
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| The manner and skill with which artists employ their tools and materials to achieve and expressive effect |
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| Possesses the dimensions of (or illusion of) height, width, and depth. In the graphic arts, the feeling of depth is an illusion, while in the plastic arts, the work has actual depth. |
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| Possesses the dimensions of height and width, especially when considering the flat surface or picture plane |
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| The result of bringing the elements of art into the appropriate ration between harmony and variety to give a sense of oneness |
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| A measurable area of defined or occupied space |
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