| - a 1960's art movement and style that attempts to use a minimal number of textures, colors, shapes and lines to create simple three-dimensional structures. Also known as minimalism. |
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| - any art in which real objects in nature are represented in a way that wholly or partially neglects their true appearance and expresses it in a form of sometimes unrecognizable patterns of lines, colors and shapes. |
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| - a style and movement of non-representational painting where artists apply paint quickly and forcefully to express feeling and emotion. Developed in the 1940's and 1950's, the often-large works appear to be accidental but are very intentional. Jackson Pollock is one of the movement's most important figures. |
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| - art that conforms to traditional standards or the standards of a particular academy or school. |
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| - synthetic paintings colors made by distributing pigments in a vehicle made of a polymethyl methacrylate solution in mineral spirits. Often called plastic paints to distinguish them from polymer colors that also contain acrylic. First used in the 1940's, they are valued for their versatility. |
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| - white, gray and black colors as opposed to the chromatic colors. |
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| - a form of abstract expressionism, intended to show the force of the artist's feelings in addition to the dynamic nature of painting itself. |
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| - the apparent tendency of the warm colors such as oranges and reds to appear to advance toward the viewer and the cool colors of blue and violet to recede. This is derived from the observable phenomenon that an object seen from afar will seem more blue or gray than it truly is. Advancing and retreating colors are used to portray landscapes. |
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| - the attempt to portray the atmospheric haze that shows depth in nature. Aerial perspective is used to add the illusion of depth in painting. The use of retreating colors and less focus helps to achieve this effect. |
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the idea that the pursuit of beauty is the primary goal of art and that art need not reflect any moral, social or religious concerns. Also known as "art for art's sake". |
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the method of oil painting in which the desired effects of the final painting are achieved in the first application of paint as opposed the technique of covering the canvas in layers with the final painting being achieved at the end. |
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| a method of painting in which the entire canvas is covered in a fairly uniform manner rather than the traditional method of painting the canvas in a way that delineates the top, bottom and middle of the painting. First devised by the American artist Jackson Pollock. |
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| - a style of representational, naturalistic painting in the U.S. from the 1920's and into the 1940's that depicted scenes of typical American life in an attempt to move a way from modernism. |
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| - particluarly popular in the 18th century, an image that is painted in a way that makes it appear distorted unless viewed from a specific viewpoint or an optical device. |
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art that dates back to the time of the great cultures before the 5th century, including China, Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), Greece, Rome, India, Mexico and Iran as well as others. |
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| - art using groupings of humans, animal or flowers in a grotesque way. |
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| - an old collectible item that represents a time that has passed. Antiques are desirable due to their age, unusualness, rarity or state. Antiques typically show some level of special craftsmanship or attention. |
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| - art used in the design or decoration of useful objects. Applied art is secondary to the function of the object itself as opposed to fine art where the primary function is aesthetic - of ancient times or of a bygone era. |
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| - a technique or work derived from the technique of using transparent watercolors in painting. |
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| - Intricate decorative ornamentation of interlacing lines, fruits, floral and animal symbols loosely based on Arabic styles. |
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popular in the U.S. and Europe in the 1920's and 1930's, a style of design and decoration with designs are geometric and highly intense colors, to reflect the rise of commerce, industry and mass production. |
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| - French for "new art". During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an art movement and style of decorative painting, sculpture and architecture which is characterized by the use of flowers and leaves in flowing, interlacing lines. Henri Toulouse-Latrec and Gustav Klimt were among those greatly influenced by the movement. |
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| - the depiction in a work of art of two sides as being not identical without impairing the general harmony of the work. Asymmetry is used to prevent a work from appearing static and superficial, as no two sides of a life form are identical. |
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| - an artist's studio or workshop |
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| - any object or article used to symbolize the profession of the person being represented, such as a caduceus for a doctor. |
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