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| A unified whole. A configuration or pattern having specific properties that cannot be derived from it's components. |
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| Cognition or understanding. |
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| Distribution of light and dark. Chiaroscuro. |
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| Weight in lines, or appearance of heaviness in a project. |
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| The frame in which an artwork exists. |
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| Clearly defined area, or area around a defined shape. Positive is the areas of form and negative is areas where the form is not. |
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| Figure/Ground Relationship |
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| The positive shape in relation to the negative shape. The figure is the positive and the ground is negative. |
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| Rules or guides. Ex: Unity, Variety, Rhythm. |
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| preliminary plans for a project. |
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| Reference objects from the natural world, objective. |
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| Partly representational, but simplified or distorted. |
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| Nonrepresentational, absolutely no reference to the natural world. |
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| From a fixed viewpoint as parallel lines recede they appear to converge on the imaginary line called a horizon line or eye level at a point called the vanishing point. |
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| Diminished clarity of detail of the elements that recede. |
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| With or without size differences. |
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| Formless, indistinct, ever-changing. |
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| A greydation of value from dark to light. |
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| No color or chroma; Blacks, whites, & greys |
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| Middle grey to black on value scale. |
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| Middle grey to white on value scale. |
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