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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
  marine (adj)
of or pertaining to the sea
     
  middle ground (n)
the portion of picture space that is behind the foreground but in front of the background
     
  milliner (n)/ millinery (n)
one who designs, sells, or makes women’s hats; the business or trade of a milliner
     
  motif (n)
a distinctive and often repeated pattern or image in a work of art
     
  Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) (1808-1873)
French president from 1848 to 1852 and emperor from 1852 to 1870. He gave France two decades of prosperity under a stable and authoritarian government known as the Second Empire but finally led it to defeat in the Franco-German War (1870-71), which forced many Impressionists to leave Paris.
     
  optical (adj)
of or pertaining to sight or vision; visual
     
  orthogonal line (n)
in linear perspective, a diagonal line drawn to a vanishing point
     
palette (n)
the range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular work
     
 

panorama (n)
an extended landscape or other scene, often displayed as an unobstructed view in every direction. Panoramas were a popular art form in the 19th century.
     
  perspective (n)
scientific method used by artists to represent three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional surfaces. Linear perspective uses vanishing points and orthogonals to make objects seem as if they are receding in space. Some maintain that a crude form of linear perspective was introduced by the Romans, refined by Islamic artists in the middle ages, and rediscovered by Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi in the 15th century.
     
  Pointillism (n)
a theory and technique of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance, they blend together; also called Neoimpressionism or Divisionism
     
  porcelain (n)
a hard, fine-grained, translucent and white ceramic ware produced by firing fine white clay (kaolin) at high temperatures
     
  Postimpressionism (n)/ Postimpressionist (adj)
the French artistic style that followed Impressionism. Such artists as Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec pushed beyond the Impressionist emphasis on the appearance of nature, stressing instead qualities such as emotional expression and the formal structure of underlying objects. Postimpressionism led to a variety of bold new styles, including innovative uses of color and brushwork that sometimes bordered on abstraction.
     

 
 

 

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