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Gilbert's Living with Art, 6/e
Mark Getlein

The Vocabulary of Art
The Visual Elements

Key Terms

  • actual line
  • additive process
  • analogous color harmony
  • atmospheric perspective
  • chiaroscuro
  • color
  • color wheel
  • complementary colors
  • contour line
  • cross-hatching
  • figure-ground relationship
  • form
  • foreshortening
  • Futurism
  • geometric shape
  • hatching
  • hue
  • illusion of depth
  • illusion of motion
  • impasto
  • implied line
  • intensity (also chroma or saturation)
  • isometric perspective
  • kinetic art
  • light
  • line
  • linear perspective
  • mass
  • modeling
  • monochromatic
  • motion
  • optical color mixture
  • organic shape
  • pattern
  • perspective
  • picture plane
  • pigment
  • pointillism
  • primary color
  • refraction
  • secondary color
  • shade
  • shape
  • simultaneous contrast
  • space
  • spatial organization
  • stippling
  • subtractive process
  • tertiary color
  • texture
  • three-dimensional space
  • time
  • tint
  • tone
  • triad color harmony
  • two-dimensional space
  • value
  • vanishing point
  • visual texture
  • volume