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  palette (n)
the range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular work
     
  parody (n; v)
a feeble or ridiculous imitation of a well-known piece of literature, music, or art; to imitate for the purposes of ridicule or satire
     
  pastoral (adj)
of or relating to life in the country; rural; rustic
     
  performance art (n)
a form of art, often carefully planned but usually including spontaneity, in which an artist performs or directs an event combining elements of theater and the visual arts. Performance art has its roots in the Happenings of the 1960s, but is more theatrical and usually more scripted. While at times amusing, performance art can be intense and disturbing because it challenges conventional ethics.
     
 

personify (n)
to be an embodiment of; to represent as a person having human qualities
     
  polygon (n)
in geometry, a union of segments connected end to end. The segments are called sides. Two sides meet at a vertex (pl., vertices). The number of sides of a polygon is equal to the number of vertices.
     
 

propaganda (n)
information or ideas methodically spread to promote or injure a cause, individual, group, or nation
     
 

Post-Impressionist (adj)
of or relating to the French artistic movement that followed Impressionism. The artists involved, including 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. The Post-Impressionists introduced a variety of bold new styles, including innovative uses of color and brushwork that sometimes bordered on abstraction.
 

 

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