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| creative work that fulfills a utilitarian function |
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work that is created for its own sake as intellectual or aesthetic expression |
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| removed from incidental reality; involves general concepts; simplified or distilled from real world objects. |
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| appreciation of beauty or other sensual visual qualities. |
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| based on free choice, unconnected with any restrictions; capricious |
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| arranging and combining in order to create one unit. |
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| having to do with a governing idea or philosophy. |
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| art form primarily concerned with marks on paper; also the organization of mark, edge and form as they might occur in painting or other art forms. |
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| a unit of form - a mark, shape, line; a basic aspect of approach, as in narrative element. |
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emphasis; the quality of being organized around a goal or sense of purpose; also a
quality of sharpness of de nition or blur.
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| an element, graphic or with implied physicality, as in “solid form”. |
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| school of aesthetic theory placing highest priority on relationships of basic form. |
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the dimensions of picture plane or overall aspect of an artwork; the means of
presentation or basic medium of an artwork.
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a mark made with energy and direction; a quality of movement or direction in a
whole composition or in a fi gure.
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pertaining to a flat shape, line and two-dimensional composition; also means vivid
or hyperclear.
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| open, unresolved; can be a positive (free, dynamic) or negative (sloppy, unclear). |
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| the speci c materials of an art form, such as graphite, ink, charcoal. |
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| emotionally distanced reaction;reasoned analysis. |
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to stretch out aerate, free up; back away from resolution, move toward implication
rather than de nition; extend outward.
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the flat or two dimensional surface of a drawing; the conceptual
two-dimensional plane.
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