UIL Art Smart 2023-2025 terms

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Allegory

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

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The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

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Art Elements

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Background in a painting

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that part of a painting that seems farther away from the viewer.

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Canvas

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A painting, treated fabric, stretched over a frame, to which paint is applied.

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Complementary colors are...

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pairs of colors that are farthest away from each other on the color wheel, and are most different from each other.

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_________ is how individual elements, like light, color, lines, and shape, work with each other and as a whole to form a complete painting. Light and shade make us see three dimensional images instead of just two dimensions. Color helps set the mood, and suggests relationship between the parts of a painting. Lines and shape organize space and create structure.

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Composition

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A style of painting developed in France early in the Contemporary period of art history. Artists took familiar objects from everyday life, broke them up into geometric figures like cubes and triangles, then put them back together, forcing viewers to see familiar objects in unfamiliar ways.

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Cubism

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A style of painting practiced briefly at the beginning of the Contemporary period of art history, with shockingly bright colors and often strange or twisted forms of human figures and other objects.

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Fauvism

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The part of a painting that seems closest to the viewer.

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Foreground

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The three dimensional shape of an object, shown traditionally in painting through variations of light and dark paints or by gradual shading of color.

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