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