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An Introduction to Painting
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channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination

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art-historical study of the subject matter of a work of art, including the investigation of the symbolism and the meaning of the subject in the culture that produced it

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raised brushstrokes of thick pain usually oil
Example: Titian's Rape of Europa

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characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.

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specific shapes and characteristic details that would represent the whole object or person
Example: Braque's Violin and Palette

6. where the artist would go to paint

7.
a type of still life showing objects that symbolize the impermanence of life, such as skulls, withered flowers, and clocks, and intended as reminders of the futility of amassing knowledge, wealth, and earthly possessions represented by stacks of books, coins, and jewels and fancy garments

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illusionistic painting that emphasizes realistic effects to convince the viewer that the painted scene or object is actually real and not painted
Example: Mantegna's Camera Picta Frescoes

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Two equal-size panels hinged to fold shut or simply hang side by side. Most are painted, some are carved in relief

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suggest that figures, parts of the body, or other forms are shown in sharp recession


Example: Mantegna's Foreshortened Christ

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is a term in art history for the type of midsize painting that would have been painted on an easel, as opposed to a fresco wall painting, or a miniature created sitting at a desk, though perhaps also on an angled support
example: Impression-Sunrise

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developed in fifteenth-century in Europe, a method of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane. Linear perspective has all parallel edges and line converging as orthogonal towards one or more vanishing points on a two-dimensional surface
- use of shadowing
- vanishing points (orthogonal)
- diminution
- foreshadowing, overlapping
- Example: Raphael's Philosophy

13.
By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between 'high' art and 'low' culture.

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Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping.

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the creation of an effect of weight and mass in an object by the manipulation of value to create highlights and shading
creation sense of geometric forms
changes in one color value
anywhere, any time, any place

creating an illusion of a three-dimensional figure into a two-dimensional surface through highlight and shade
Example: Leonardo de Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks
Persistence of Memory

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converging diagonal lines that meet at the vanishing point in the scientific perspective system

Example: Raphael's Philosophy

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creation of sleek, geometric works that purposefully and radically eschew conventional aesthetic appeal.

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forms nearer the horizon are blurred and their color is less intense and higher in value, while the sky gradually shades from blue toward white above the horizon

Example Persistence of Memory"

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The illusory space in a painting or other work of two-dimensional art that seems to recede backward into depth from the picture plane, giving the illusion of distance

Example: Plate 1 Cézanne, Still Life with Apples

20. Value

21.
a representation of everyday life

22.
diaphanous colour by means of thinned-down oils that she allowed to soak into the raw (unprimed) canvas. This technique, known as the stain technique, strongly contrasted with the use of impasto that characterized most Abstract Expressionist painting, and it seriously influenced the colour-field painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
Example: Helen Frankenthaler's Mountains and Sea

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the use of a contrast of values to create an effect of modeling
major contrast between light and dark
Example: Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes

24.
place where the orthogonals would converge if continued
Example: Raphael's Philosophy

25.
smooth, sharply defined painting style used by several American artists in representational canvases executed primarily during the 1920s.