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Weekly Vocab 02/08/16

PopArt: a movement in modern art that imitates the methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media, such as comic strips,advertising, and science fiction

Dadaism: a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty.

Photomontage: is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining two or more photographs into a new image.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

weekly vocab

Rule of Thirds: guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such as designs, films, paintings, and photographs. 
Perspective Photography: defined as the sense of depth or spatial relationships between objects in the photo, along with their dimensions with respect to the viewpoint (camera lens or the viewer).

Distortion (Optics)
  • In barrel distortion, straight lines bulge outwards at the center, as in a barrel.
  • In pincushion distortion, corners of squares form elongated points, as in a cushion.
  • In mustache distortion, horizontal lines bulge up in the center, then bend the other way as they approach the edge of the frame (if in the top of the frame), as in curly handlebar mustaches

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

weekly vocab 1/26/16

Sepia Toning: specialized treatment to give a black-and-white photographic print a warmer tone

Selenium Toning:  popular archival toning process which converts metallic silver to silver selenide. In a diluted toning solution, selenium toning gives a red-brown tone, while a strong solution gives a purple-brown tone. 

Duotone: Halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting colour halftone (traditionally black) over another color halftone.