The Art of Graphic Design
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smithdianna on September 16, 2011
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Mrs. Puryear's Class, MCC Art, Graphic Design
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Composition | The design or arrangement of the parts on any two-dimensional surface. |
| Elements of Art | Line, shape, form, color, value, space, and texture. |
| Principles of Design | Unity, variety, emphasis, rhythm, movement, balance, pattern, and proportion. |
| Foreground | The area of a picture or design that appears to be closest to the viewer. |
| Background | Parts of an artwork that appear farthest away from the viewer. |
| Spectrum | Bands of colored light created when white light is passed through a prism. |
| Hue | The name of a color in its pure form; also a color's position in the spectrum. |
| Additive Primaries | The primary colors of light - red, green, and blue - which create white light when mixed together. |
| Intensity | The degree of purity, saturation, or strength of a color. |
| Afterimage | The appearance of a primary color's complement when you close your eyes or move them to a white background. |
| Simultaneous Contrast | The perception that colors change when placed beside the colors. |
| Gestalt | The overall impression of an image as a whole, rather than just the sum of its specific parts. |
| Visual Path | A visual journey along a page created by the careful placement of lines, shapes or forms, and colors. |
| Motif | A basic element repeated to create a pattern. |
| Golden Section | An ancient Greek ideal ration that can be expressed in numbers as 0.618034:1. |
| Expression | The emotion, cultural, or social content of a design. |
| Closure | The tendency to complete partial forms or shapes by seeing lines that do not exist. |
| Illusion | A false belief about something you see. |
| Optical Illusion | A false visual perception; seeing something other than what is really there. |
| Abstract | Artwork based on an identifiable subject, but with few or no details, and whose visual elements are simplified or rearranged. |
| Symbol | Images that stand for ideas. |
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