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Palette - thin board of wood, plastic, metal, paper or other material with a hole for the thumb to hold while painting where the artist holds and mixes the paints he or she is using while painting.
 
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Paint Palette

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Photomontage - an art composition created by arranging multiple photographs into one; often, uses photographs that hold elements or represent a single theme that the artist is trying to express.
 
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Colours of India

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Polyptych - a painting done in more than three sections or panels that may be hinged together.
 
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Fairies and Flowers I

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Harry Potter

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Post-impressionist painting - as a reaction to the Impressionists, this style focused on the emotional content, structure and form of their subjects and eliminated the strong focus on lighting in their works. Examples of artists of this movement include Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gaugin.S
 
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The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, c.1888

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Village in Tahiti

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Prehistoric art - art created during the first known period of human culture about two million years ago. The period is broken into three major periods: Old, Middle and New Stone Ages. The old is dominated by the use of stone tools, carvings and paintings while the Middle is characterized by pottery and the New by pottery, spinning and weaving. The three periods illustrate the evolution of a previously nomadic group to urban civilizations who domesticated animals and plants.
 
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The Venus of Willendorf, Fertility Symbol, Pre-Historic Sculpture, 30000-25000 BC

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Primary color - the three colors of red, blue and yellow from which all colors can be derived with the addition of black and white.
 
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Bi-Plane

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Flowers, 1970

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Prototype - the original form which serves as a model on which successors are based.
 
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Prototype Telephone Design

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