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Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure, Olowe of Ise
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Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Roman
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Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
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Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso
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Mother and Child, Mary Cassatt
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Last Judgment, Wassily Kandinsky
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Shoki the Demon Queller, Utagawa Kunisada
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They're Biting, Paul Klee
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Recumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep, Rosso Fiorentino
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough
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Churning of the Ocean Milk, Cambodian
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The Binocular Entrance to the Chiat Building, Claes Oldenburg
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At the Milliner's, Edgar Degas
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Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Stella
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The Printmaker's Workshop, Japanese
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Knight, Death, and the Devil, Albrecht Durer
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Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol
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Glass Bowl with Fruit, Roman
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Crinkly, Alexander Calder
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Running Fence, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum?, Guerrilla Girls
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Untitled (Self-Portrait of Marilyn Monroe), Cindy Sherman
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Visual Form
The composition/design, the materials, and the size of the artwork.
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Content
The meaning of the artwork.
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Naturalistic Style
Artwork that imitates visual reality an illusion of reality.
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Idealized Style
Artwork that is made to depict the subject as being perfect.
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Expressionist Style
Artwork that has heightened emotions, colors are boldly contrasting and spontaneous.
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Classical Style
Any art form thought to be inspired or influenced by ancient Greek or Roman examples. It values perfection of form, with an emphasis on harmony and unity and restraint of emotion.
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Surreal Style
Artwork that has a dream-like quality, that defies logic, and has juxtaposition, contradictions of expectations about reality – or what we think is reality.
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Non-Objective Style
Artwork that has no reference to anything - art for the sake of art.
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Abstracted Style
Artwork in which one can see an image and be able to recognize it for what it is, but the image is distorted in a certain way (cubism).
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Stylized Style
Using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous.
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Line
A moving point, having length and no width; actual ____ physically exist and can be broad, thin, straight, jagged, etc.
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Shape
A flat 2D form with a defined outline.
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Value
The lightness or darkness of a surface – to create 3 dimensions.
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Color
The element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
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Texture
The artist is attempting to create the illusion of _____ in the painting. To create a sensual quality using the paint and to capture the ______ and create a sensation that we think we can touch it and feel =like you could feel it.
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Space
The distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece.
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Chiaroscuro
In Italian it means “light-dark,” an image that creates the illusion of 3D space by depicting light and shadow.
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Shade (color)
Black added to a hue of a color.
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Tint (color)
White added to a hue of a color.
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Analogous Colors
2 or 3 colors sitting next to each other on the color wheel.
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Linear Perspective
Theory that parallel lines appear to converge as they recede and appear to meet on the horizon line.
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Horizon Line
Corresponding to the viewer's eye, depending where the _____ is will give a sense of perspective.
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Balance
The sense of equillibrium between two sides of an image.
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Rhythm
The repetition of elements separated by intervals to suggest movement.
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Visual Weight
____ creates balance in an image and depends on the relationships between the elements of composition/design.
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Symmetrical Balance
Also called formal balance because a form (formula) is used - a mirror image about a vertical axis.
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Asymmetrical Balance
Balance is achieved by arranging elements with drastic differences.
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Support
The two-dimensional surface or material that underlies the work.
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Relief Printmaking
Negative space of the image is cut out of the wood block, and ink is applied to the raised area. The ink will transfer to paper.
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Intaglio
From Italian meaning “to cut into,” artists cut into a flat surface to make the image.
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Pigment
A color in powder form.
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Binder
Substance mixed with pigment to fix the paint to the surface.
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Encaustic
Ancient paint media where pigment mixed with hot wax.
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Buon Fresco
Ancient paint media where pigment is applied to wet or dry plaster.
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Oil Painting
Painting method that allows intense colors with lustrous surfaces.
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Freestanding (sculpture)
Objects meant to be seen from all sides.
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Site-Specific (sculpture)
A sculpture that is specifically designed for a particular place, the space becoming part of the experience of the artwork.
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Lost Wax Casting Method
The ancient process by which a metal (such as silver, gold, brass or bronze) sculpture is cast from an artist's sculpture.
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Ready-Mades
Artworks that use objects from the real world with few changes by the artist.
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Installation
Usually mixed media and are designed for specific interior or exterior spaces. The artist considers the space of the gallery or site as part of their artistic medium.
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Symbol
An image or element that stands for or represents some other entity or concept. They are culturally determined and must be taught.
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Iconography
The pictorial material relating to or illustrating a subjec.
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Visual Metaphor
An image or element that is descriptive of something else.
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Formalism (Criticism)
Criticism that emphasizes the analysis of visual form (design, materials, and size).
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Ideological Criticism
Criticism that is rooted in the writings of Karl Marx, deals with the political and/or economic aspects of art. Even artwork that may seem neutral is still political.
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Psychoanalytic Criticism
Criticism that focuses on art as the product of individuals shaped by their pasts, their unconscious urges, and their social histories. (Sigmund Freud). It is appropriate for work that deals with strong emotional content, intuition, dream imagery, or fantasy.
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Deconstructionist Criticism
Introduced by Jacques Derrida, it is criticism that holds that from the inside, any system looks natural and coherent, but it is in fact filled with unseen contradictions, myths, or stereotypes. Holds belief that art works have multiple meanings rather than one absolute interpretation.
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Feminist Criticism
Criticism that is concerned with the oppression of groups (especially women) in society and advocates equal social, political, and economic rights for all women and men.
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Visual Culture
Attempt to integrate all of the visual components of contemporary culture. People in industrialized nations consume massive numbers of images every day from film, ads, Internet, TV, etc.
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Emphasis
Creating one or more focal points in an image.
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Line Quality
______ expresses a range of emotions, such as fragility, roughness, anger, whimsy, vigor, etc.
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Composition
The arrangement of formal elements in a work of art. Principles are: balance, rhythm, proportion, scale, emphasis, and unity & variety.
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Positive Space
The area of an image is occupied by the subject.
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Negative Space
The area of an image is surrounding the subject.
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Unity and Variety
The use of repetition and difference to create a harmonious and dynamic design.
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