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16 May 2011

Figure Separate shape(s) distinguishable from a background or ground.

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ABC Art Abstract Abstract Art Abstract Expressionism Abstract Surrealism Academic Art Academy Accent Accession Achromatic Acid Acrylic Acrylic Polymer Action Painting Additive Color Mixture Additive Sculpture Aerial Perspective Aesthetic Aesthetics Afterimage Airbrush Analogous Colors Analogous Hues Analytical Cubism Aperture Applied Art Aquatint Arabesque Arcade Arch Architecture Armature Art Collection Art Movement Art Nouveau Assemblage Asymmetrical Atmospheric Perspective Automatism Avant-Garde Axis Balance Baroque Barrel Vault Bas-Relief Bauhaus Beams Binder Braque Burin Buttress Byzantine Art Calligraphy Camera Lens Camera Obscura Cantilever Capital Caricature Cartoon Carving Casein Casting Ceramic Chiaroscuro Chroma Classical Clay Closed Form Cluster Houses Coffer Collage Colonnade Color Color Field Painting Color Wheel Complementary Colors Composition Conceptual Art Content contour Contrapposto Cool Colors Cross-Hatching Cubism curtain wall Curvilinear da Vinci Dada Dadaist De Stijl Decoration Define Depth of Field Design Divisionism Dominance Drypoint Duchamp Dynamism Earth Art Earthenware Earthworks Eclecticism Edition Elevation Encaustic Engraving Entasis Environmental Art Etching Europe Expressionism Eye Level Facade Fauvism Figure Fine Art. Aesthetic Firing Fixative Folk Art Foreshortening Forging Form Formal Design Forms Fresco Frontal Figure Futurism Genre Geometric Shapes Gesso Gesture Glaze Gold Gothic Gouache Ground Hatching. Hoch Hot Hues Idea Identifiable Shape Illustration Ink Intaglio Islamic Italy Large Domes Lens Light Linseed Oil Lintel Man Ray Mathematics Matisse Metal Michelangelo minimalism Miro Mondrian Mosaic Movement Naive Neoclassicism Neutrals Nonrepresentational Objects Ornament Outsider Art Paint Painting Perspective Picasso Pigment Plaster Pointillism Pottery Print Process Proof Raphael Relationship Relative Apparent Size Relative Position Relief Relief Print Relief Sculpture Renaissance Representational Resin Rococo Roman Romanesque Romantic Romanticism Round Arches Sale Screen Print Sculpture Serigraph Shellac Style Stylized Figure Subtractive Color Mixture Subtractive Process Support Surrealism Symmetry Technique Two-Dimensional Two-Dimensional Surface Vault Vitrification Wall Warm Colors Wash Watercolor Weft Woodcut

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