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An original print or print-run created by an artist, in collaboration with printers, as opposed to simply a print or copy of a pre-existing artwork.
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| Focal point |
| An object, artwork or design element that is the main point of focus in a given space.
The portion of an artwork's composition on which interest or attention centers. The focal point may be most interesting for any of several reasons: to give emphasis.
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| Form/Formal concern |
| The characteristics of an artwork's visual elements, not subject matter or content. |
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| Functional |
| That which is in the forefront of an artwork, as opposed to the background. |
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| Harmony |
| A principle of design where different elements share similar shapes, colours or other values and therefore work well together. |
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| Hollow casting |
| Casting in a mold by lining the walls of the mold with layers of sculpture material rather than filling up the mold. The technique varies with the medium being used. Cast metal sculptures are made hollow chiefly to ensure that no part is much thicker than any other; such differences in thickness would create tensions in the metal as it shrinks in cooling. |
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| Icon(ic) |
| A specific image that is widely known and famous. |
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| Impressionist/Impressionism |
| A style of painting that originated in France around 1870. Paintings of casual subjects were executed outdoors using divided brush strokes to capture light and mood of a particular moment and the transitory effects of natural light and colour. |
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| Intaglio |
| A printmaking technique that involves cutting or scratching a design onto a plate. |
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| Landscape |
| A form of visual art that aims to represent a place, usually, but not always, in the countryside. |
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| Limited editions |
| Print-runs of a limited number, which ensures the value of the artwork. Usually one of the printing plates is then destroyed so that reprints will be impossible. |
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| Limners |
| Old fashioned term for painter or portraitist. |
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| Lithography |
| A printmaking technique based on the principle that oil and water do not mix. |
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| Lost-wax casting |
| A casting process for which a sculptor first produces his sculpture in wax. He creates a mold around this made of refractory (Resistant to high temperatures) materials. When the mold is heated, the wax melts away, so that molten metal can replace it, reproducing exactly the original wax sculpture. |
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| Mimetic Representation |
| The imitation of life or nature in the techniques and subject matter of art. |
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| Mixed-media |
| Artwork created with more than one type of art material. |
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| Mobile |
| A moving, kinetic sculpture that hangs in the air, often consists of different rods and objects that balance each other out. Invented in the 1930’s and given a name by the artist, Marcel Duchamp. |
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| Modeled |
| Something that is copied or used as the basis for a related idea, process, or system |
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| Modernism |
| More of an attitude than a specific style, Modernism was a phenomenon which first arose in the early part of the 20th century, and was an affirmation of faith in the tradition of the new, where artists extremely concerned with finding a visual equivalent to contemporary life and thought. |
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| Modernity |
| Pertaining to the set of political, social, economic and aesthetic ideas that characterize the modern world in the 20th Century. |
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| Equator Arts Society |
| An organization of Chinese artists in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s who published documents and arranged group exhibitions, many of its members were graduates from NAFA and used Woodblock Printing at that time. |
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| Multi-screen video installations |
| A practice of art using TV monitors or video projection that deploys sound and image on more than one screen simultaneously. |
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