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Paint

A combination of pigment, binder, and solvent (noun); the act of producing a picture using paint (verb, gerund).

Painter

One who applies paint to canvas, wood, paper, or another support to produce a picture.

Painting

A work of art made from paint applied to canvas, wood, paper, or another support (noun).

Palette

1. The range of colors used by an artist in making a work of art; 2. A thin wooden or plastic board on which an artist holds and mixes paint.

Palette knife

A flexible, thin blade with a handle, typically used for mixing paint colors or applying them to a canvas.

Panel

A flat board, sometimes made of wood.

Panning

To pivot a movie camera along a horizontal plane in order to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.

Panorama

An unbroken view on an entire surrounding area.

Papier-collé

French for "glued paper," a collage technique using cut-and-pasted papers.

Papier-mâché

French for "chewed-up paper," a technique for creating three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture, from pulped or pasted paper and binders such as glue or plaster.

Paranoiac critical method

Emerging from psychological methods, a creative process, developed by Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in the 1930s, for the exploration of the creative potential of dream imagery and subconscious thoughts.

Pastel

A soft and delicate shade of a color (adjective); a soft drawing stick composed of finely ground pigment mixed with a gum tragacanth binder (noun). Pastel sticks are often applied to a textured paper support. The pastel particles sit loosely on the surface of the paper and can be blended using brushes, fingers, or other soft implements. Pastels can also be dipped into water to create a denser mark on the paper or ground into a powder and mixed with water to create a paint that can be applied by brush. Because pastel drawings are easily smudged they are sometimes sprayed with fixative, a thin layer of adhesive.

Pattern

A series of events, objects, or compositional elements that repeat in a predictable manner.

Performance art

A term that emerged in the 1960s to describe a diverse range of live presentations by artists, including actions, movements, gestures, and choreography. Performance art is often preceded by, includes, or is later represented through various forms of video, photography, objects, written documentation, or oral and physical transmission.

Persona

The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.

Perspective

Technique used to depict volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface, as in a painted scene that appears to extend into the distance.

Photogram

A photographic print made by placing objects and other elements on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light.

Photograph

An image, especially a positive print, recorded by exposing a photosensitive surface to light, especially in a camera.

Photographer

One who uses a camera or other means to produce photographs.

Photogravure

A printmaking process in which a photographic negative is transferred onto a copper plate.

Photojournalism

A type of journalism that uses photographs to tell a news story.

Photomontage

A collage work that includes cut or torn and pasted photographs or photographic reproductions.

Photostat

A machine that makes quick duplicate positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper. Also, the resulting copies.

Pictograph

An image or symbol representing a word or a phrase.

Pictorialism

An international style of photography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized by the creation of artistic tableaus and photographs composed of multiple prints or manipulated negatives, in an effort to advocate for photography as an artistic medium on par with painting.

Picture Plane

The virtual, illusionary plane created by the artist, parallel to the physical surface of a two-dimensional work of art; the physical surface of a two-dimensional work of art, e.g. a painting, drawing, or print.

Pigment

A substance, usually finely powdered, that produces the color of any medium. When mixed with oil, water, or another fluid, it becomes paint.

Plan

A scale drawing or diagram showing the structure or organization of an object or group of objects.

Plane

A flat or level surface.

Plastic

A term applied to many natural and synthetic materials with different forms, properties, and appearances that are malleable and can be molded into different shapes or objects.

Plastic Art

A term broadly applied to all the visual arts to distinguish them from such non-visual arts as literature, poetry, or music.

Plasticizer

Any of a group of substances that are used in the manufacture of plastics or other materials to impart flexibility, softness, hardness, or other desired physical properties to the finished product.

Plate

In printmaking, the flat surface onto which the design is etched, engraved, or otherwise applied.

Pliable

Capable of being shaped, bent, or stretched out.

Plywood

A material made of thin layers of wood that have been heated, glued, and pressed together by a machine.

Pointillism

A painting technique developed by French artists Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac in which small, distinct points of unmixed color are applied in patterns to form an image.

Polyethylene

One of the most common forms of plastic known for being tough, light, and flexible. Made of synthetic materials, polyethylene is commonly used in plastic bags, food containers, and other packaging.

Pop art

A movement comprising initially British, then American artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Pop artists borrowed imagery from popular culture—from sources including television, comic books, and print advertising—often to challenge conventional values propagated by the mass media, from notions of femininity and domesticity to consumerism and patriotism. Their often subversive and irreverent strategies of appropriation extended to their materials and methods of production, which were drawn from the commercial world.

Popular culture

Cultural activities, ideas, or products that reflect or target the tastes of the general population of any society.

Portrait

A representation of a particular individual, usually intended to capture their likeness or personality.

Pose

The way a figure is positioned.

Positive

In photography, images capable of being produced in multiples that result from the transfer of a negative image to another surface, such as a photographic print on paper.

Post-Impressionism

A term coined in 1910 by the English art critic and painter Roger Fry and applied to the reaction against the naturalistic depiction of light and color in Impressionism, led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. Though each of these artists developed his own, distinctive style, they were unified by their interest in expressing their emotional and psychological responses to the world through bold colors and expressive, often symbolic images. Post-Impressionism can be roughly dated from 1886 to 1905.

Postmodernism

In art, postmodernism refers to a reaction against modernism. It is less a cohesive movement than an approach and attitude toward art, culture, and society. Its main characteristics include anti-authoritarianism, or refusal to recognize the authority of any single style or definition of what art should be; and the collapsing of the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, and between art and everyday life. Postmodern art can be also characterized by a deliberate use of earlier styles and conventions, and an eclectic mixing of different artistic and popular styles and mediums.

Praxinoscope

A popular 19th-century optical toy, invented by a Parisian science teacher named Charles-Émile Reynaud, comprised of a cylinder fitted with a strip of paper printed with 12 sequential image frames. When the cylinder spins, a mirror fixed in its center reflects the images and makes them appear animated.

Primary color

One of three base colors (blue, red, or yellow) that can be combined to make a range of colors.

Prime

To prepare a surface for painting by covering it with primer, or an undercoat.

Primitive Art

A term initially used to refer to the arts of all of Africa, Asia, and Pre-Columbian America, later used mostly to refer to art from Africa and the Pacific Islands. By the late 20th century the term, with its derogatory connotations, fell out of favor.

Print

A work of art on paper that usually exists in multiple copies. It is created not by drawing directly on paper, but through a transfer process. The artist begins by creating a composition on another surface, such as metal or wood, and the transfer occurs when that surface is inked and a sheet of paper, placed in contact with it, is run through a printing press. Four common printmaking techniques are woodcut, etching, lithography, and screenprint.

Profile

A side view, usually referring to that of a human head.

Prop

An object used to aid or enhance a story or performance.

Propaganda

Any systematic, widespread dissemination or promotion of particular ideas, doctrines, practices, etc. to further one's own cause or to damage an opposing one; ideas, doctrines, or allegations spread in this manner, now often used disparagingly to connote deception or distortion. Propaganda may take many different forms, including public or recorded speeches, texts, films, and visual or artistic matter such as posters, paintings, sculptures, or public monuments.

Proportion

Refers to the harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.

Prototype

An early sample built to test a concept or process.

PVC

Polyvinyl chloride, abbreviated PVC, is a common type of plastic often used in clothing, upholstery, electrical cable insulation, and inflatable products.

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