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Calligraphy: the art of fine handwriting or letter forming, which in China and Japan is as highly regarded as painting. Camera obscure: Italian for 'dark room' - see section on Light; a box-like device that uses a lens to reflect an object onto a flat surface, and was thus of great use to draughts people seeking accuracy, and topographical artists. A sophisticated 19thC development of it using an adjustable prism to alter size was called a camera Lucida. Canvas: Coarse cloth (of heavy fabric such as linen, hemp or cotton) on which an artist, especially an oil painter, makes a painting. Also used to describe the resulting work. Returned to favor in the 15thC. The fabric must first be stretched then primed before use (today, artists can buy 'pre-stretched') the weave texture and flexibility can vary a great deal. Cartoon: See section on Composition; Italian for 'big piece of paper'. A full size exact final stage drawing for a painting, ready for transferring to canvas or wall or tapestry - by squaring up or chalking on the back or pouncing. Today, the work has come to mean a comic drawing perhaps with a caption. Catalogue: List of works of art, often accompanying an exhibition, which provides data on the works themselves, the artists the materials, and the owners the catalogue raisonne is a complete detailed, scholarly catalogue of an artist' s work. Cave art: See The Artist at Work section. Painting on the walls of caves dating from the Stone Age the best-known are in Alta Mira, Spain (discovered I 879) and Lascaux, southern France (discovered 1940). It has been speculated that they served a magical or ritual function. Chalk: Soft limestone sometimes used as a drawing material or mixed to make pastels and other crayons. Charcoal: Soft, dark carbon substance (produced by charring willow or vine wood) used for drawing, especially preliminary drawings where easy erasing is useful. Chiaroscuro: See section on Light; Italian word for 'light-shade' the use and balance of light and shade in a paint, and in particular the use of strong contrasts. Chromo-lumrismina: Name given by Georges Seurat to his depiction of light through small dots of colour, since known as Pointillism. Classic: Originally meant that artworks were based on Greek and Roman examples; today seems to refer to anything worthy of note or study or thought to be excellent. Classicism: Art based on the analysis and understanding of classical examples. Claude Glass: See section on Light; tinted convex glass used by followers of Claude Lorraine to reflect the landscape in miniature and reduce colours to tones. Abstract page break: American 3D artist famous contemporary print graphic artists collection, Surrealism art painting pictures modern digital surreal life web master, Various modern creative commercial and free digital design images, watercolor artistas landscape well-known painting artistic, prominent stand-still portrait artiste figurative genre naturmorte moden desin, US Canada Europe country Collage: French for 'sticking' or gluing' used to describe an artwork made up, in whole or m part, of materials (such as paper or cloth) stuck onto paper or canvas. Pablo Picasso is said to have produced the first significant collage with Still Life with Chair (1912). Colour: See section on Colour has three basic attributes - hue, intensity and value. Since the Impressionists and especially Claude Monet turned colour into subject-matter (rather than language), it has become more central to the history of art. Colour circle or colour wheel: See section on Colour circular guide to colour first developed in the early 19thC. in which the individual colours of the spectrum are arranged in segments or wedges according to hue and saturation, with the complementary colours opposite each other. Colour field painting: the application of colour across the entire canvas which when viewed close-to, gives the impression of being engulfed in a 'field' of colour. Some New York artists from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s were its most famous practitioners. Colourist, colorist: Artist who uses colour effectively, as a central feature of his/her work. Complementary colour: See section on Colour. Composition: See section on Composition. Computer art: Art made by programming a computer to produce images or artworks, or by using the computer as a short-cut for visual calculation. Conceptual art: Art where the idea rather than the art object, is the most significant feature especially in the 1960s art which was critical of the art establishment (notably in America and Britain); the art becomes as much a documentary record of the thinking of the artist as an 'artwork' in the traditional sense. Marcel Duchamp, with his 'ready-mades' is claimed as the founding father. Conservation: the preservation of works of art from the past and the ensuring that their physical or chemical state does not decline any more than it has to. Not the same as restoration, which involves intervening in such processes more than the conservator. Much conservation is preventive storage environment light levels, etc. Constructivism: Mainly based in the Soviet Union, this post-revolutionary art movement constructed sculpture out of metal, glass plastic, which stressed space rather than solidity, as well as monuments stage designs and relief constructions based on the same principles. The key artists were Vladimir Tatlin Antoine Pevsner and his brother Naum Gabo In 1921, the movement collapsed in the Soviet Union for political reasons, but some practitioners moved to western Europe. The influence of the Constructivists on abstract sculpture on the use of industrial methods (such as welding) in making scuIpture and on architecture has been profound. In fact the word is used today erroneously - to mean almost any kind of abstract sculpture based on geometry and construction rather than the figure. Content: The meaning of any artwork as distinct from its subject-matter (which is usually a part of the meaning) and as supported by, or integrated with, form. Often confused with subject-matter and contrasted with font - both erroneously. Copy: Deliberate remaking of a work of art as distinct from a fake (which pretends to be the original) or a pastiche (which is in the style of the original). Before the age of mechanical reproduction artists (or their assistants) would often produce copies for different clients or collectors. The academies made copying old masters a central part of the art curriculum. Crayon: Today refers to any wax-based drawing tool in stick form; but in the past the colored drawing tool was made of dry pigment and chalk. Cross-hatching: Using parallel lines close together, crossed at an angle with other paraIIel lines to create shading effects on drawings or prints. Hatching means simply shading by use of parallel lines. Cubism: See section on Form; originally a reaction against Impressionism - with its emphasis on surface appearance - Cubism began with the experiments of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso from 1906 to 1909 (first exhibition with Cubist work. Paris. (1907) which, emphasized not the surface appearance but the structure position and the Idea of the subject In effect this came to mean presenting several views of the same subject within the same pictorial space The term 'Cubism' was first used by an art critic to describe Braque' s Houses at L'Estaque (1908) but Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon (1907) had already used the multi-view approach for one of its figures (as well as displaying an enthusiasm for non-European, in this case African, art). Often confused with 'abstract art' in general, or taken as a synonym for 'modern art' Cubism was centrally concerned with subject matter, and how to present it in intellectually as well as visually challenging ways. See also under Analytical and Synthetic Cubism. 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