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VOCABULARY
TERM
Art Criticism-Critique

Definition

Principals of Art

The rules that govern

how artists organize
the elements of art

Aesthetics

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

AESTHETICS
EXPERIENCE

Literal 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.

Example (:

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Formal qualities

Formal Qualities
generally means
the most
important and
unique aspects
about something.

The expressive
qualities

Imitationalism

Formalism

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
the truth of a work,
in particular to its
depicting external
reality
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

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Culture

Cultural
Anthropology

Genealogy

Diarama

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.
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.

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Cultural Artifacts

Ethnocentricity

A cultural artifact is an
item that, when found,
reveals valuable
information about the
society that made or
used it.
Ethnocentricity is the
belief that your own
cultural or ethnic group
is superior to that of
another

Dia De Los Muertos

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.

Huichols

are Native Mexicans,

living in the Sierra
Madre Occidental
range in the Mexican
states of Nayarit,
Jalisco, Zacatecas,
and Durango.

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Anti-Aliasing

Alfa channel

Composite_(.psd)

Smoothing the
jagged appearance
of diagonal lines in a
bitmapped image.
The pixels that
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.

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Cai-quo-giang

Ai Wei Wei

Media-Medium

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
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

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Still-Life

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 glassware

Line Drawing

a drawing done using

only narrow lines, the
variation of which, in
width and density,
produce such effects
as tone and shading.

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, drawing black
writers, artists,
musicians,

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photographers, poets,
and scholars.

Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence was an

African-American painter
known for his portrayal
of African-American life.
Lawrence referred to his
style as "dynamic
cubism,"

Sargeant Johnson

Winslow Homer

Jasper Johns

Di Rosa Gallery

Winslow Homer was an

American landscape
painter and printmaker,
best known for his marine
subjects. He is considered
one of the foremost
painters in 19th-century
America and a preeminent
figure in American art
Jasper Johns is an
American painter and
printmaker.

Located on 217 scenic

acres in the Carneros
region of the Napa
Valley, di Rosa offers
visitors refuge to view
the art of Northern

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California in a singularly
unique setting. The
property includes three
separate galleries, a
sculpture park, a 35-acre
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.

Virtual Gallery

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

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today on the
internet.

Gallery CrawlKQEDs Virtual

Gallery Show

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
of
diorama. This guide
provides resources for
educators to support the
utilization of this online
virtua

Spark-Art Production
Showcase Program

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
musicians.

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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.

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