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VOCABULARY
TERM
Art CriticismCritique

Principals of Art

Aesthetics

Definition
Art criticism is the
discussion or
evaluation of visual
art. Art critics usually
criticise art in the
context of aesthetics
or the theory of
beauty. A goal of art
criticism is the
pursuit of a rational
basis for art
appreciationbut it is
questionable
whether such
criticism can
transcend prevailing
socio-political
circumstances.
The rules that govern
how artists organize
the elements of art

A set of principles
concerned with the
nature and
appreciation of
beauty, especially in
art.

Example (:

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AESTHETICS
EXPERIENCE

Literal Qualities

Formal qualities

Literal rather than

digital art. Poetic
practice informed by
the materiality of
language has greater
power to articulate
cultural production
than ill-defined
digital practice.
Formal Qualities
generally means the
most important and
unique aspects about
something.

The expressive
qualities

Imitationalism

Imitationalism is an
aesthetic theory
which holds that a
good work of art is
one which accurately
depicts the real
world. This theory
holds that merit in
the arts is related to
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in particular to its
depicting external
reality

Formalism

Culture

Cultural
Anthropology

Genealogy

In art history,
formalism is the
study of art by
analyzing and
comparing form and
stylethe way
objects are made
and their purely
visual aspects
the arts and other
manifestations of
human intellectual
achievement
regarded collectively
anthropology that
deals with human
culture especially
with respect to social
structure, language,
law, politics, religion,
magic, art, and
technology
also known as family
history, is the study
of families and the
tracing of their
lineages and history.

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Diarama

3 dimensionsal
object of model or
event.

Ancestry

: the people who

were in your family
in past times

Ofrenda

is a collection of
objects placed on a
ritual altar during the
annual and
traditionally Mexican
Dia de los Muertos
celebration.
A cultural artifact is
an item that, when
found, reveals
valuable information
about the society
that made or used it.

Cultural Artifacts

Ethnocentricity

Ethnocentricity is the
belief that your own
cultural or ethnic
group is superior to
that of another

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Dia De Los Muertos

Huichols

Anti-Aliasing

It is a holiday
celebrated in Mexico
and some countries
in Central America
and in many
communities in the
United States , where
there is a large
Mexican and Central
American population.
The Unesco has
declared the festival
as intangible cultural
heritage . There is in
Brazil a similar
celebration known as
Dia dos Finados ,
although this festival
does not have the
same pre-Hispanic
roots that the Day of
the Dead.
are Native Mexicans,
living in the Sierra
Madre Occidental
range in the Mexican
states of Nayarit,
Jalisco, Zacatecas,
and Durango.
Smoothing the
jagged appearance
of diagonal lines in a
bitmapped image.
The pixels that

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Alfa channel

Composite_(.psd)

Cai-quo-giang

surround the edges

of the line are
changed to varying
shades of gray or
color in order to
blend the sharp edge
into the background.
The alpha channel is
really a mask-- it
specifies how the
pixel's colors should
be merged with
another pixel when
the two are overlaid,
one on top of the
other.
made up of various
parts or elements.
relating to or
denoting a classical
order of architecture
consisting of
elements of the Ionic
and Corinthian
orders.
He was trained in
stage design at the
Shanghai Theater
Academy, and his
work has since
crossed multiple
mediums within art,
including drawing,
installation, video
and performance art

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Ai Wei Wei

Media-Medium

Still-Life

Ai Weiwei is a
Chinese
Contemporary artist
and activist. Ai
collaborated with
Swiss architects
Herzog & de Meuron
as the artistic
consultant on the
Beijing National
Stadium for the 2008
Olympics
Media, like data, is
the plural form of a
word borrowed
directly from Latin.
The singular,
medium, early
developed the
meaning an
intervening agency,
means, or
instrument and was
first applied to
newspapers two
centuries ago
a painting or drawing
of an arrangement of
objects, typically
including fruit and
flowers and objects
contrasting with
these in texture,
such as bowls and

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glassware

Line Drawing

Shading

a drawing done using

only narrow lines, the
variation of which, in
width and density,
produce such effects
as tone and shading.
the darkening or
coloring of an
illustration or
diagram with parallel
lines or a block of
color.

Printing/Reproductio
n

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem
Renaissance was the
name given to the
cultural, social, and
artistic explosion
that took place in
Harlem between the
end of World War I
and the middle of the
1930s. During this
period Harlem was a
cultural center,

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Jacob Lawrence

Sargeant Johnson

Winslow Homer

drawing black
writers, artists,
musicians,
photographers,
poets, and scholars.
Jacob Lawrence was
an African-American
painter known for his
portrayal of AfricanAmerican life.
Lawrence referred to
his style as "dynamic
cubism,"
committed from
early on to using
modern aesthetics to
create positive
representations of
African Americans
Winslow Homer was
an American
landscape painter
and printmaker, best
known for his marine
subjects. He is
considered one of
the foremost
painters in 19thcentury America and
a preeminent figure
in American art

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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is an
American painter
and printmaker.

Di Rosa Gallery

Located on 217
scenic acres in the
Carneros region of
the Napa Valley, di
Rosa offers visitors
refuge to view the
art of Northern
California in a
singularly unique
setting. The property
includes three
separate galleries, a
sculpture park, a 35acre lake, and
wildlife preserve.
Protected in
perpetuity under the
Napa County Land
Trust, di Rosa is rich
in flora and fauna,
with open space that
is home to a
fascinating array of
wildlife, native plant
species.

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Virtual Gallery

Gallery CrawlKQEDs Virtual

Gallery Show

Virtual Gallery Tours

has been established
by Virtual Tour Group
Inc. to focus on the
Art & Museum
Industry.
Exhibiting important
paintings, sculptures,
ceramics,
architecture and
decorative arts,
continues to redefine
the integrity and
scope of the art
industry. We
specialize in
presenting
exhibitions in the
most realistic and
comprehensive
manner available
today on the
internet.
Gallery Crawl visited
Bedford Gallery in
Walnut Creek,
California to see The
Art of
Diorama, an
exhibition of artwork
by mostly California
artists that falls
under the category
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diorama. This guide

provides resources
for educators to
support the
utilization of this
online virtua
Spark-Art Production this series is about
Showcase Program Bay Area artists and
arts organizations. It
is a weekly television
show, an educational
outreach program
and a website. More
than a showcase for
art objects and the
artists who make
them, SPARK* takes
the audience inside
the creative process
to witness the
challenges,
opportunities and
rewards of making
art.
Galleries
a room or building
for the display or
sale of works of art.
a balcony, especially
a platform or upper
floor, projecting from
the back or sidewall
inside a church or
hall, providing space
for an audience or

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musicians.

Shape

Geometric Shapes

The enclosed lines

are then transformed
into another element
of art called shape.
Shapes are areas of
enclosed space that
are two-dimensional.
Shapes are flat, and
can only have height
and width. The two
different categories
of shapes are
geometric and
organic
Many twodimensional
geometric shapes
can be defined by a
set of points or
vertices and lines
connecting the
points in a closed
chain, as well as the
resulting interior
points. Such shapes
are called polygons
and include
triangles, squares,
and pentagons.

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Free-form Shapes

Forms

Space
(dimemtional)

a shape having an
irregular contour,
chiefly used in
nonrepresentational
art and industrial
design. 2. Linguistics.
a linguistic form that
can occur by itself,
as fire, book, or run.
the visible shape or
configuration of
something

In mathematics, the
dimension of a
vector space V is the
cardinality of a basis
of V over its base
field. For every
vector space there
exists a basis, and all
bases of a vector
space have equal
cardinality; as a
result, the dimension
of a vector space is
uniquely defined.

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holograms

a three-dimensional
image formed by the
interference of light
beams from a laser
or other coherent
light source.

Point of view

points of view
possible in a picture
are: from below,
from inside, from
outside, from above,
and so on. A manner
of viewing things; an
attitude. The attitude
or outlook of a
narrator or character
in a piece of
literature, a movie,
or another art form.
in art is the use of
strong contrasts
between light and
dark, usually bold
contrasts affecting a
whole composition.

chiaroscuro

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highlights

perspective

the lightest spot or

area: any of several
spots in a modeled
drawing or painting
that receives the
greatest amount of
illumination. 2. :
something that is of
major significance or
special interest.
perspective
definition. In drawing
or painting, a way of
portraying three
dimensions on a flat,
two-dimensional
surface by
suggesting depth or
distance.

TSHIRT
DESIGN
WEARABLE ART

SILKSCREEN
PRINTING

refers to individually
designed pieces of
(usually) handmade
clothing or jewellery
created as fine or
expressive art.
printmaking
technique in which a
mesh cloth is
stretched over a
heavy wooden frame
and the design,
painted on the

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ALBRECHT DUER

SUBLIMATION
PRINTING

ETCHING PRINTING

screen by tusche or
affixed by stencil, is
printed by having a
squeegee force color
through the pores of
the material in areas
not blocked out by a
glue sizing.
Albrecht Drer was a
painter, printmaker
and theorist of the
German
Renaissance. Born in
Nuremberg, Drer
established his
reputation and
influence across
Europe when he was
still in his twenties,
due to his highquality woodcut
prints.
is a computer printer
which employs a
printing process that
uses heat to transfer
dye onto materials
such as a plastic,
card, paper, or
fabric.
An artistic print
made from a plate on
which the artist has
etched a design with
acid.

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MONOCHROME
PRINITING

CHROMABLAST
PRINTING
WOODBLOCK
PRINTING

REFORMATION ART

is something that is
all one color or done
in black and white.
When you don't want
to use your color ink
so you print on your
computer using
grayscale and the
picture comes out in
shades of black,
white and gray, this
is an example of
printing in a
monochrome style.

is a technique for
printing text, images
or patterns used
widely throughout
East Asia and
originating in China
in antiquity as a
method of printing
on textiles and later
paper.
A religious
movement in the
sixteenth century
that began as an
attempted reform of
the Roman Catholic
Church but resulted
in the founding of
Protestant churches

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RENAISSANCE ART

LEANARDO DE VINCI

LITHOGRAPHY
PRINTING

SERIAGRAPH
PRINTING

separate from it.

and the Italian word
rinascit, both
meaning 'rebirth',
the Renaissance was
a period when
scholars and artists
began to investigate
what they believed
to be a revival of
classical learning,
literature and art.
Leonardo di ser Piero
da Vinci, more
commonly Leonardo
da Vinci, was an
Italian polymath
whose areas of
interest included
invention, painting,
sculpting,
architecture, science,
music, mathematics
is a method of
printing originally
based on the
immiscibility of oil
and water. The
printing is from a
stone (lithographic
limestone) or a metal
plate with a smooth
surface.
also known as
serigraphy, is a

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method of creating
an image on paper,
fabric or some other
object by pressing
ink through a screen
with areas blocked
off by a stencil.