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| 1. The selection, simplification, and/or rearrangement of the representation of natural appearance. 2. Nonrepresentational work arranged simply to satisfy artists' needs for organization or expression. In varying degrees, abstraction is present in all works of art. |
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| Traditionally a branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of the "beautiful", aesthetics is now a compound of the philosophy, psychology, and sociology of art. As such, aesthetics is no longer solely confined to determining what is beautiful in art, but attempts to discover the origins of the art experience and the relationship between art and other aspects of culture. In this book, the term aesthetics refers to the concern with artistic qualities of form, as opposed to descriptive form or the mere recording of facts. |
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| Creative vision derived from the imagination. |
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| The essential meaning and significance of a work of art. Content referes to the sensory, subjective, psychological, or emotional properties a work of art contains, as opposed to its descriptive aspects alone. |
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| Aptitude, skill, or quality workmanship in the use of tools and materials. |
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| Ornamenting or enriching but, more importantly in art, emphasizing the two-dimensional nature of an artwork or any of its elements. Decorative art emphasizes the essential flatness of a surface. |
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| A type of art that is based on adherence to actual appearances. |
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| The underlying plan on which an artwork is based. In a broader sense, design may be considered synonymous with the term form. |
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| Line, shape, value, texture, and color-the basic ingredients the artist uses to produce imagery. The use of these elements produces the visual language of art. |
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| 1. The manifestation of thought, emotion, or quality of meaning in artistic form. 2. In art, expression is synonymous with the term content. |
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| 1. The organization and arrangement of visual elements that develop unity in an art-work. 2. The total appearance or organization of an artwork. |
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| 1. Two-dimensional art forms, such as drawing, painting, and printmaking. 2. The two-dimensional use of the elements of art. 3.May also refer to the techniques of commercial art as used in the layout and production of newspapers, books, magazines, and Web pages. |
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| 1. In graphic art, a shape that appears to stand out three-dimensionally from the space surrounding it or appears to create the illusion of a solid body of material. 2. In the plastic arts, the physical bulk of a solid body of material. |
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| The materials and means used to bring an artwork into existence. |
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| The approach to art that attempts a description of thing as they appear in nature. Pure naturalism would contain no personal interpretation introduced by the artist. |
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| The unoccupied or empty space in an artwork defined by the positive elements created by the artist. |
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| nonobjective, nonrepresentational art |
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| A type of art that is entirely imaginative and not derived from anything visually perceived by the artist, and consequently not associated by the observer with any previously experienced natural object. |
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| Art that is based on physical actuality, optical perception, and the appearance of things as they are. Such art tends to appear natural or real. |
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| Things as seen through the eye. |
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| A condition in which the components of an artwork-that is, subject, form and content-form an interdependent whole. |
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| The outermost boundary of the picture plane. |
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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 tranparent plane of reference to establish the illusion of forms existing in a three-dimensional space. |
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| 1. An area that is essentially two-dimensional, having height and width. 2. A flat or level surface. 3. A two-dimensional surface having a positive extension and spatial direction or position. |
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| 1. The use of the elements of art to create the illusion of the thrid dimension on a two-dimensional surface. 2. Three-dimensional art forms, such as architecture, sculpture, and ceramics. |
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| The portion of an artwork in which the art elements (shape,line,etc), or their combination, produce the subject-nonrepresentational or recognizable images. |
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| realism, Realism (art movement) |
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| The style of art that creates an impression of visual actuality without going to extremes of detail, while attempting to relate and interpret universal meanings that lie beneath surface appearances. As a movement, it relates to painters like Honore Daumier in nineteenth-century France and Winslow Homer in the United States in the 1850s. |
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| A type of art in which the subject is presented through the visual art elements so that the observer is reminded of actual objects. |
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| The interval, or measurable distance, between points or images. |
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| A specific artistic character or dominant trend of form noted during a period of history or during an art movement. Style also refers to the expressive use of media that gives an artwork individual character. |
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| The persons, things, signs, or ideas represented in an artwork that express the artist's inspiration or intention. |
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| subjective (art, shape, color, etc.) |
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| That which is derived from a personal viewpoint, bias, or emotion. |
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| The manner with which an artist uses tools and materials to achieve an expressive effect. |
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| Possessing a dimension of depth, in addition to having the dimensions of height and width. |
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| Possessing the dimensions of height and width. |
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| The result of bringing the elements of art into the appropriate ratio between harmony and variety to achieve a sense of oneness. |
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| A measurable area of defined or occupied space. |
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