ARTS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Technique, Contrast Effect, Complementary Colors
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Term used when each side of a composition is exactly the same. In art, the rendering of images and objects in a stylized or simplified way, so that though they remain recognizable, their formal or expressive aspects are emphasized. A painting style of the late 1940s and early 1950s, predominantly american, characterized by its rendering of expressive content by abstract or nonobjective means. As opposed to visual texture, the literal tactile quality or feel of a thing. Pertaining to the appreciation of the beautiful, as oppose to the functional or utilitarian, and, by extension, to the appreciation of any form of art, whether overtly beautiful or not. Work in which no single point of the composition demands our attention any more or less than any other and in which the eye can find no place to rest. In color, the tendency of the eye to see the complementary color of an image after the image has been removed.
