Glossary Of Terms

Glossary AVANT GARD: Applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter CARL ANDRE BRICKS Kinetic art: is art that depends on motion for its effects e.g. Alexander Calder- Antennae with Red and Blue Dots 1960 Installation art: is used to describe mixed-media constructions or assemblages usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time e.g. Cornelia Parker Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 1991 & Rachel Whiteread Figurative art Describes any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure e.g. Picasso Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect; it could be based on a subject such as a figure, landscape or object or may have no source at all in the external world e.g. : Kandinsky Other Key Words Liner Stop motion : Onion skinning Meditate and synthesis an image silhouette Zoetrope: Reciprocal Action & Persistence of vision Objets trouvés Theater d’ombre Define.