UIL Art Elements

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A general style of painting that developed during the Twentieth Century period of art history, characterized by subjects that were not realistic. They feature shapes, lines, and colors, like more realistic paintings, but sometimes don't represent objects in the real world at all. Paintings that distort reality, but not so much that we can't still recognize real-world objects.

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Abstract

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A category of paintings whose subjects are individual art elements like color, line, and composition or the painted surface itself rather than representations of things in the real world.

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Abstract

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blue, green, and violet

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cool colors

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A color made by mixing two primary colors: green, purple, orange

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secondary colors

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Sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors; red, yellow, and blue

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primary colors

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colors such as black, white, tan, and beige, which have neither a warm nor a cool effect in painting.

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neutral colors

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A work that uses symbols, often human forms, to stand for ideas or to convey messages.

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Allegory

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The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

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Art Elements

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That part of a painting that seems farthest away from the viewer.

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A period of art history, approximately 1600-1750. Important historical events of the period included scientific discoveries by Galileo and Isaac Newton, the growth of the Protestant religion, and ordinary citizens becoming patrons of the arts, particularly in the Netherlands.

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Baroque