ArtLex - Art Dictionary


	ArtLex - Art Dictionary
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a3de5218-da2f-462b-a117-1c166e5f1bc8/7A174E2F-E39D-4EBC-BF7B-EEC1C2A6284B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html" href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.artlex.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artlex.com/img/0521653C-8718-4B44-B14D-F54F6958EA71" alt="ArtLex" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html"><FONT face="Arial" color="#010773">Art Dictionary</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html"><FONT face="Arial" color="#b61300">in art production, criticism,
history, aesthetics, and education</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html"><P><FONT size="-1"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial" color="#001e00">Welcome to <B>ArtLex</B>.
  You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing
  art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation
  notes, great quotations and cross-references.</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html" href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.artlex.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artlex.com/img/9BFDEB92-3F6C-4C66-978D-EE469CCED0A4" alt="F I to F L" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">fibula</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artlex.com/img/126DE70C-ED7E-48E7-99A1-7600C1446A5A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html"><P><FONT size="-1"><B><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">figurative</FONT></B><FONT size="+1" face="Arial"> - Describes artwork <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Reh.html#anchor1012198">representing</A>
the <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/form.html">form</A> of a human, an animal or a
thing; any <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/En.html#anchor2349326">expression</A> of one
thing in terms of another thing. <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/abstraction.html">Abstract</A>
artwork is the opposite of figurative art in certain ways. Roy
Lichtenstein made a series of images of a bull, demonstrating
this kind of range in ways to approach figuration and abstraction
― beginning with the most highly figurative version, and proceeding
through stages to the most abstract version:</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html"><P><FONT size="-1"><FONT face="Arial">Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997),
  the six prints in the "Bull Profile Series,"</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artlex.com/img/34510D67-5A2B-41FB-80E9-01AFA983FC7D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Fi.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artlex.com/img/811DE354-C3A9-4F4E-ACC8-5978D2DEB644" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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