2D FinalBy Meghan Gallagher

Simulated texture in a work of art

Visual Texture

Texture that departs from the actual texture of an object, often simplifying of exaggerating it, but retaining some recognizable aspect of its texture.

Abstract Texture

Texture that makes no reference to real of actual texture.

Invented Texture

Stems from unconscious, irrational sources and therefore takes on fantastic forms.

Surrealism

Texture that is chosen or created by the artist to foil or undermine our ideas about the objects that it depicts.

Subversive Texture

An overall design that is based on the repetition or grouping of elements such as line, shape, color, or texture.

Pattern

Nearby objects appear more textured than distant objects

Texture Gradient

Art that makes no reference to visible reality.

Nonobjective Art

Color; the visual sensation created by specific parts of the visible spectrum

Hue

A transparent object with triangular ends, usually made of glass

Prism

Deflection of light from a straight path, as by passing it through a medium such as water.

Refraction

That segment of the spectrum of electromagnetic energy that excites the eyes and produces visual sensation, arranged in order of wave-lengths

Visible Spectrum

The traditional wheel for representing colors of pigments, consisting of twelve colors

Color Wheel

Colors that cannot be created by mixing other colors

Primary Colors

Colors created by mixing primary colors

Secondary Colors

Colors created by mixing primary and secondary colors

Tertiary Colors

A school of architecture that taught students to integrate science and technology in the works.

Bauhaus School

Combines 3 additive primary colors in equal intensities produces white light.

Additive Color

Colors created from pigments; the subtractive primary colors are red, yellow, and blue pigments.

Subtractive Colors

Colors on the yellow and red side of the color wheel

Warm Colors

Colors on the blue-green side of the color wheel

Cool Colors

The lightness or darkness of a color.

Value

Brightness of a color.

Intensity

The degree of purity of hue, as measured by its intensity of brightness.

Saturation

Colors mixed with gray and, sometimes, also weakened in intensity.

Neutral Color

Colors that sit across from one another on a color wheel and contrast most extremely.

Complementary Colors

The lingering impression made by a stimulus that has been removed.

Afterimage

A twelve-color color wheel with yellow at the top

Triadic Color System

The group of three primary color identified by the placement of an an equilateral triangle over a 12 color, color wheel

Primary Triad

The group of three secondary colors

Secondary Triad

Creates the illusion of vibrations through afterimages

Op Art

Juxtaposition of areas of bright color, distorted linear perspective, and drawing that is unrelated to the color.

Fauvism

A manner of using color in which one color dominates and is sometimes combined with its various tints and shades

Monochromatic Color Scheme

The combination of two or more colors that lie adjacent to one another on the color wheel, tending to create a feeling of harmony

Analogous Color Scheme

The combination of two or more colors that lie across from one another on the color wheel

Complementary Color Scheme

A manner of using color characterized by combining a color with the two colors adjacent to its complementary color

Split-Complementary Color Scheme

The combinnation of two adjacent color wheel with their direct complementaries

Double-Complementary Color Scheme

The color we typically associate with objects as they would be seen in direct sunlight

Local Color

The Depiction of colors as they are perceived under different lighting comditions

Optical Color

The use of colors that are not normally associated with the subjects being depicted.

Arbitrary Color