The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the United States. Half of those valentines are given to family members other than husband or wife, usually to children. When the valentine-exchange cards made in school activities are included, the figure goes up…
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The term conceptual art came into use about 1965, to describe art in which the artist’s propositional concept is of primary importance but the manner and matter of execution are deemphasized. The term was defined (1967) by Sol Lewitt, a pioneer and theorist in conceptual art. Cube Structure Based on…
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01:56:11 “Juxtaposition is the act of positioning close together–as in a side-by-side composition.” 01:57:35 “Random juxtaposition causes the stimulation of creativity in art, design or other lesser creative pursuits by contrasting two unrelated concepts or objects. Usually the goal or problem to be solved is on the one hand and…
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Infrared is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore invisible. Slightly more than half of the total energy from the Sun was eventually found to arrive on Earth in the form of infrared. By way of artistic interpretation, some of this became visible light…
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Cropping, or Crop Suey, refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change the aspect ratio of the image. Depending on the application, Crop Suey may be performed on a physical photograph, artwork or film footage, or achieved digitally using…
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The human eye is not a selective instrument; it cannot distinguish two superimposed colors as such. Taking advantage of this fact, in 1801, Thomas Young, and later Hermann von Helmholtz, found that it was possible to match any given colored light using a combination of three primary light sources. Occasionally…
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Style can be defined as a characteristic manner of presentation in any art form. The word can refer to to the elements of flexibility that shapes each type of art work to its function. You are able to distinguish between the styles of writers who write novels and the styles…
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White light can be dispersed by a prism, which resolves a beam of white light into its colored components, the spectrum. Visible light is electromagnetic radiation within a wavelength range of about 410 nm (nanometers) to about 770 nm. The various spectral colors may be characterized by their wavelengths within…
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Apologists for the International Style claimed that modern architecture represented a democratic style expressing the taste of the general public, its works often have been seen as aloof and oversophisticated by their residents. Finally, modern architecture’s efficacy in solving the problems of redesigning cities into finely tuned social organisms has…
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Dirque du Soleil 
The Artist