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| acrylic | a resin based medium used for paint |
| Caricature | Character studies, which exaggerate features while still resembling the model. |
| casting | making objects in molds |
| Center of interest | the part of a composition which is first to attract attention to |
| Collage | a picture or design made by assembling and arranging different kinds of materials, |
| Content | the ideas behind the artwork |
| Contour | an outling drawing, a line or lines representing a figure or mass |
| Contrast | to show noticeable difference when compared side by side. To place or arrange so as to set off or bring out differences |
| abstract | not realistic |
| landscape | A natural scene or picture as seen from a single point |
| line | the path of a moving point. It defines edges, direction,texture, folds, breaks |
| Armature | framework used to support modeling materials as paper mache, clay |
| Atmospheric perspective | uses value and color, especiall blues and greys, to suggest or enhance the effect of space |
| Bas-relief | sculpture in low relief. Projection from background is slight, no part being entirely detached. |
| Block prints | a print made from a carved piece of wood, linoleum or latex |
| carving | a craft in which aa definite form is portrayed by removing sections of a large piece by chipping, cutting, chiseling, or scraping |
| Distortion | alteration of the natural shape and surfaces of a form |
| Dominance | an element of a composition which is given preference by emphasis as related to center of interest, line, texture, dark and light |
| media, mediums | the materials and tools used by the artist to create the visual elements perceived by the viewer of the art. |
| Genre | a style of painting, showing the common life of people, often the present |
| Gesso | The material that is used to cover a canvas or board to make it suitable for adherence of paint |
| Opaque | Heavy or non-transparent |
| Motify | theme or central dominant feature expressed in a pattern or design by use of lines or shapes |
| Portrait | a likeness of a specific person |
| Repetition | Recurrence of the elements of art |
| Saturation | the greatest possible intensity of a color |
| Subject | The persons or things represented in artwork |
| Narrative art | a form of art which depends on subject matter to tell a story |
| Plasticine | a modeling clay which has been mixed with oil to prevent hardening |
| realism | the representation of things as they are in life |
| Value | the gradation of light to dark in a color: range from black and white |
| wash | a transparent layer or coating of color |
| Surrealism | a style of artistic expression which emphasizes fantasy and whose subjects are usually the esperiences revealed by the subconscious mind |
| Trompel'oeil | a paintin technique that the painted objects may be mistaken for the actual forms depicted. |
| Unity | a combination or ordering of parts such as to constitute a whoe, or promote an undivided total effect |
