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- 3. life A genre of visual art that focuses on depicting inanimate objects, typically arranged in a composed arrangement or setting, such as fruit, flowers, household items, or everyday objects. Still life artworks explore composition, lighting, and texture.
- 6. A genre of visual art depicting natural scenery, outdoor views, or vistas of the countryside, forests, mountains, rivers, or seascapes. Landscape artworks often emphasize the beauty, atmosphere, and mood of the natural environment.
- 8. A flat, smooth surface, typically made of wood, plastic, or glass, used by artists to hold and mix colors of paint while working on a painting. Palettes can have multiple wells or compartments for organizing different hues and shades of paint.
- 10. A representation or likeness of a person, typically focusing on the face, features, and expression, created through painting, drawing, sculpture, or photography. Portraits aim to capture the personality, character, or mood of the subject.
- 11. A technique used in visual art to create the illusion of depth, space, and distance on a two-dimensional surface, such as a canvas or paper. Perspective involves representing objects and scenes from a specific viewpoint or vantage point, using techniques such as foreshortening and vanishing points.
- 14. A style of visual art that does not attempt to represent external reality or depict recognizable objects, people, or scenes, but instead focuses on conveying emotions, concepts, or ideas through shapes, colors, lines, and forms. Abstract artworks often encourage interpretation and subjective meaning.
- 15. The arrangement, organization, or placement of elements such as shapes, lines, colors, and textures within a visual artwork, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures. Composition contributes to the overall balance, harmony, and unity of the artwork.
- 16. A three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or carving materials such as clay, stone, metal, wood, or plastic into solid forms, figures, or structures. Sculptures can be freestanding or relief, representing human figures, animals, objects, or abstract shapes.
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- 1. An artistic style or approach that aims to depict subjects or scenes with a high degree of accuracy, fidelity, and detail, resembling the appearance of real-life objects, people, or environments. Realist artworks often convey a sense of objective truth, authenticity, and everyday life.
- 2. A strong, durable fabric or material used as a surface for painting, typically stretched over a wooden frame or support to provide a stable base for applying paint. Canvases come in various sizes and textures and are commonly used by artists for creating paintings.
- 4. An art movement characterized by capturing the fleeting effects of light, color, and atmosphere in outdoor scenes, often using loose brushwork, visible brushstrokes, and bold colors to convey the artist's subjective impressions and sensory experiences. Impressionist artworks emphasize spontaneity, movement, and immediacy.
- 5. The surface quality or feel of an artwork, determined by the tactile properties of materials such as paint, paper, canvas, or clay used by the artist. Texture can be smooth, rough, bumpy, glossy, matte, or tactile, adding visual interest and sensory appeal to the artwork.
- 7. A visual art form that involves making marks, lines, or shapes on a surface using tools such as pencils, pens, charcoal, or pastels. Drawings can range from simple sketches to detailed illustrations and may depict objects, people, landscapes, or imaginative scenes.
- 9. An art movement that emphasizes the artist's subjective emotional experience, inner feelings, and psychological insights, often using distorted forms, exaggerated colors, and gestural brushwork to convey intense emotions, anxieties, or spiritual states. Expressionist artworks explore themes of alienation, angst, and inner turmoil.
- 12. A quick, rough, or preliminary drawing or outline that captures basic shapes, forms, and proportions of a subject or scene, often used as a starting point for more detailed artwork or as a visual aid for planning compositions. Sketches can be done with various drawing materials and techniques.
- 13. A form of visual art where colors are applied to a surface using various techniques such as brushes, knives, or fingers to create images, scenes, or compositions. Paintings can be done on canvas, paper, wood, or other materials and may depict landscapes, portraits, still lifes, or abstract concepts.