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| German for "good figure" or the LAW OF SIMPLICITY. We are innately driven to experience things in as symmetrical, simple, and regular a gestalt as possible. |
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| We tend to enclose a space by completing a contour and ignoring gaps in the figure. |
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| visual field; closed-off area where visual forces react |
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“magnetism” of edge; decision of where to crop
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| reading habit; can play with sequence |
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| graspable visual pattern; can be formal or conceptual |
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| specific evocative quality; set tone |
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| actual and/or visual; helps give visual weight |
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| Gives motion, really important |
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| Texture can be actual and or ________ |
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| simplest visual duality; creates space |
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| any gradual, orderly stepped change in visual quality; creates space |
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| simple depth cue; can imply importance |
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| stresses stage-like space |
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| sense of containment; cue-dependent—intimate or oppressive, etc. |
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| compressed energy; expressive |
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| eloquent by omission; less is more |
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| overlapping areas parallel to picture plane; orderly |
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| Typical realism expectation that foreground is _____ |
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| Vanishing-Point Perspective |
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| system with limitations; effectively places viewer; can distort – not how we see; TENDS TO WEIGHT BOTTOM |
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| linear perspective w/o a vanishing point; PARALLEL LINES IN NATURE REMAIN THAT WAY; flattening effect; interaction of 2D surface and space illusion |
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smaller structures within the whole; substructures
DIFFERENT DEFINITION ON TEST |
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| LARGER, SIMPLER FORMS; downplaying detail; independent of actual size |
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| IMPLIED INFORMALITY, fluidity and impermanence; private |
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| VISIBLE RECORD OF FORCES ON A FLAT SURFACE; inside/outside tension; actual/implied; gestalt |
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| Positive & Negative Shape |
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| always important relationship; LIKE FIGURE/GROUND, interesting when more equally weighted |
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| Another proportional system |
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| Japanese proportional system |
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| SIMPLEST GRAPHIC UNIT; abstraction |
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| pressure-sensitive; GESTURAL; INTIMATE, personal |
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| unvarying; mechanical, INTELLECT-SIGNIFIER |
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| direction established by gestalt (good continuation) |
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| GIVES MOTION; often diagonals |
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| Repeated marks in parallel lines |
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| Weight of value: ______=heavier |
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| Tonal gradient gives sense of _____ |
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| brilliance or dullness (greyness) |
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| hues close to or touching on color wheel |
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| three-color groups evenly space on color wheel |
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| add black, white, grey or color’s complement to make ______ |
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| question i got wrong on quiz |
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