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| point at which the receding parallel lines in a painting appear to meet |
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| the art of fancy doodling, using line and pattern |
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| a path of a point that travels through space |
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| rapidly executed or casual portrayal of a subject |
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| a drawing technique which employs many small dots or flecks to construct the image, or shading. |
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| a drawing or other artwork an artist does of themself |
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| red, blue, and yellow; the colors that can be mixed to produce other colors |
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Sixties movement led by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein
Involved representing thing that were popular to society at the time
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| A form of ceramic art, in which wet clay is shaped, dried, glazed and fired in a kiln |
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A term which refers to the "depth" of a picture - that is, the illusion of three-dimensional space |
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| Chalklike crayon made from pigment mixed with gum and water and pressed into a stick-shaped form. Because pastel tends to be light and chalky in tone, the word is also used to describe pale, light colours. |
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| slab of wood, metal or glass used by the artist for mixing paint |
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process of applying paint. |
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three-dimensional representation of objects.
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| drawing technique that uses closely spaced parallel lines to indicate toned areas. When crossed by other lines in the opposite direction it is known as cross-hatching |
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Refers to the area of the picture space closest to the viewer, immediately behind the picture plane. The next distant area is the middleground; the most distant is the background |
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| An upright support (typically a tripod) employed for holding an artist's canvas while it is being painted |
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A diagrammatic chart showing the placement of colors in relationship to each other |
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These colors lie directly opposite
each other in the color wheel: like
blue and orange, red and green,
violet and yellow |
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Any set of three or five colors that
are closely related in hue and
usually found next to each other
on the color wheel - such as blue,
blue-green, and green. |
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These result from the mixing of a
primary and a secondary color
(like red and green) or two
secondary colors (like green and
orange).
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Tints are paler variants of a particular
color, obtained by adding white.
For example, pink is a tint of red. |
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A shade is a dark value of a color
(eg. dark blue), as opposed to a tint,
which is a lighter hue (eg. light blue).
Shades of a particular color are
obtained by adding black. |
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| refers only to the type of mark made on the canvas (the dot). On might just as easily call it "dottism". The actual theory of mixing paint-pigments optically, |
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86,
by whom
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| [image] Who painted this? |
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