Art Dictionary for Elementary

a state of maximum impregnation.

artistic shaping of materials such as wood, stone, clay, metal, and more recently, plastic and other synthetics.

a view of the sea.  A picture representing a scene at sea.

a portrait of oneself done by oneself.

the reproduction of the effect of shade in painting or drawing.

a spatial form contour.

the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass.

a limited extension in one, two or three dimensions.

in painting and graphic art, a depiction of inanimate objects.

to design, make or arrange in accord to the prevailing mode.

movement in art, literature, and film that developed out of Dada around 1922. Led by Andre Breton, who produced the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, the Surrealists were inspired by the thoughts and visions of the subconscious mind.

capable of divsion by longitudinal plane into similar halves.

to put together; the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole.