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Canon - ✔✔Important facts that everyone should know in art, the essential
parts of the field you are talking about chronologically. Rules or standards..
or guiding principles.
Contrapposto - ✔✔italian for counterpose.
Futurism - ✔✔Anti-museum, favor war and believe that war is the only
way of clearning humankind's flaw
Mannerism - ✔✔The artist has taken great liberties with propotion to creat
what was believed to be an elegant and engaging composition
Memento mori/vanitas - ✔✔remembering that all of us die. Symbolic work
of art especially associated with still life painting in Flnaders and the
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, Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other
places and periods.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) - ✔✔An independent federal
agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our
communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunies for art
participation.
Cartoon - ✔✔In a painting, a full-size preliminary drawing from which a
painting is made. Da Vinci's virgin and child with saint anne and the infant
saint john is a famous example.
Collage - ✔✔A piece of art made by sticking various different materials
such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing.
Expressionism - ✔✔Uses emphasis and distortion to communicate
emotion. Bold, shocking, unrealistic color. Depressing tone usually.
Fluxus - ✔✔an international network of artists, composers and designers
noted for blending idfferent artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. A
strong current of anti commercial and anti art sensibility. Influenced by
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Canon - ✔✔Important facts that everyone should know in art, the essential
parts of the field you are talking about chronologically. Rules or standards..
or guiding principles.
Contrapposto - ✔✔italian for counterpose.
Futurism - ✔✔Anti-museum, favor war and believe that war is the only
way of clearning humankind's flaw
Mannerism - ✔✔The artist has taken great liberties with propotion to creat
what was believed to be an elegant and engaging composition
Memento mori/vanitas - ✔✔remembering that all of us die. Symbolic work
of art especially associated with still life painting in Flnaders and the
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, Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other
places and periods.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) - ✔✔An independent federal
agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our
communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunies for art
participation.
Cartoon - ✔✔In a painting, a full-size preliminary drawing from which a
painting is made. Da Vinci's virgin and child with saint anne and the infant
saint john is a famous example.
Collage - ✔✔A piece of art made by sticking various different materials
such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing.
Expressionism - ✔✔Uses emphasis and distortion to communicate
emotion. Bold, shocking, unrealistic color. Depressing tone usually.
Fluxus - ✔✔an international network of artists, composers and designers
noted for blending idfferent artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. A
strong current of anti commercial and anti art sensibility. Influenced by
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