Art Review

2. A sense of equilibrium achieved through implied weight, attention, or attraction, by manipulating the visual elements within an artwork
3. The line that defines the outermost limits of an object or a drawn or painted shape.
5. A visually misleading or perceptually altered space or object.
7. The comparative size relationship between the parts of a whole. For example, the size of the Statue of Liberty's hand relates to the size of her head. (See scale.)
8. lines Lines that dim, fade, stop, and/or disappear. The missing portion of the line is completed in the viewer’s mind.
14. The principle of visual organization that certain elements are more important than others in a particular composition or design.
16. perspective The illusion of depth produced in graphic works by lightening values, softening details and textures, reducing value contrasts, and neutralizing colors in objects as they recede
17. The manifestation through artistic form of a thought, emotion, or quality of meaning; synonymous with the term content.
18. That which is based, as nearly as possible, on physical actuality or optical perception. Such art tends to look natural or real.
19. Aptitude, skill, or quality workmanship in the use of tools and materials.
20. The pleasing quality achieved by different elements of a composition interacting to form a whole. This is often accomplished through repetition of the same or similar characteristics.

1. A description applied to flat, two dimensional images or primarily graphic media such as fonts, comic books, and cartoons.
4. Art Artwork encompassing non-recognizable imagery, ranging from pure abstraction
6. plane The actual flat surface on which the artist executes a pictorial image. In some cases, this acts merely as a transparent plane of reference to establish the illusion of forms existing in a three dimensional space.
9. The representation in art, by form and content, of an event or story. Whether a literal story, event, or subject matter, or a more abstract relationship between colors, forms and materials.
10. Used to describe something as visually based, beautiful, or pleasing in appearance and to the senses. It is a term developed by philosophers during the 18th and 19th centuries and is also the academic study of beauty and taste in art.
11. A recurrent or dominant theme in a work of visual or literary art.
12. A visual formula that creates the illusion of depth and volume on a two dimensional surface. It also infers a particular vantage point or view.
13. The dark area that occurs on a surface as a result of something being placed between that surface and a light source.
15. of art Line, shape, value, texture, color the basic ingredients the artist uses to produce imagery. Their use produces the visual language of art.