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Artistic Lexicon
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100

The intentional placement of elements that guides the viewer through the artwork.

What is movement?

100

This function is found by tapping on individual layers including add layer, hide layer and delete layer, to name just a few.

Layer Actions

100

This painting technique, perfected by Leonardo da Vinci, softly blends colors and tones together without harsh lines, creating a "smoky look" that allows shapes and colors to merge with one another seamlessly.

What is sfumato?

100

In art, this element is used by artists to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface, often achieved by overlapping objects or using perspective techniques.

What is space?
100

This art movement emphasizes simplicity and focuses on the idea that less is more by stripping down to the essentials of form and color.

What is minimalism?

200

This can be symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial.

Balance

200

The resolution that is used when art is not printed.

72 ppi

200

This drawing method shows how things appear to get smaller as they get further away, converging towards a single “vanishing point” on the horizon line.

One Perspective

200

This color is often used to represent happiness and warmth.

What is yellow?

200

This art style aims to depict subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation.

What is realism?

300

This principle can be created using color, proximity, or repetition.

Unity

300

Tapping the screen with two fingers does this.

Undo

300

In perspective drawings, these are imaginary lines that recede toward the vanishing point on the horizon line.

Orthogonal Lines

300

This element of art is used by artists to guide the viewer's eye around the composition or to communicate movement and direction.

What is line?

300

This Impressionist characteristic involves the use of this to capture fleeting effects of light.

What is bright or vivid colors?

400

A large head on a small body is an example of this art principle.

Proportion

400

Commonly known as animation, Adobe has a different name for their tool to create movement. 

Motion Tool

400

The placement of two things side by side for comparison, typically to highlight the contrast between them.

Juxtaposition

400

This art element describes the surface quality of an object, either real or implied, can be rough, or smooth.

What is texture?

400

Cubism, known for breaking down objects into geometric shapes, presents them from this vantage point.

What is multiple perspectives?

500

One subject stands away from the rest of the group is an example of this principle.

Emphasis

500

This will make the difference between the paint bucket staying in the defined area or coloring the entire canvas.

Closed Lines

500

This artistic technique, called Trompe-l'œil, simply means this.  It is often used to create the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality on a flat surface.

What is "to deceive the eye".

500
A three-dimensional object or shape that has height, width, and depth.

What is form?

500

Early in his career, Chuck Close, known for his high-resolution drawing portraits, was a big contributor for this style of art.

What is photorealism?

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