Vocab :D

Materiality:
the state or quality of being physical or material


Monochromatic: 
having tones of one color in addition to the ground hue


... an essential Property:
an essential property is one that is essential to the piece


Pictorial space:
In a painting or other two dimensional art, illusionary space which appears to recede backward into depth from the picture plane.


Critical theory:
Critical theory is an examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across  
the social sciences and humanities. 


Optical Colour Mixing:
Optical color mixing is created through our perception of color. When one looks at two small amounts 
 of different colors laid down side by side the two appear to create a different colour. 


Traditional or Classical Architecture:
Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity


Colour Field Painting:
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European Modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism. Colour Field painting is characterised by large fields of flat, solid colour spread across the canvas. The movement places less emphasis on gesture and likes brushstrokes and action over the consistency of form and process.


Action Painting:
sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting where paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.


Prismatic:
resembling the colors formed by refraction of light through a prism


Orphism:
Orphism or Orphic Cubism, the term coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, was a little known art movement during the time of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors influenced by Fauvism and the dye chemist Eugene Chevreul. This movement was pioneered by the Delaunays, a couple who relaunched the use of colour during the monochromatic Cubist movement.


Synasthesia:
is a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.


Motif:
is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood.


Woodcut print:
is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges.


Facets (with regard to cubism):
Facets are flat faces on geometric shapes. The organization of naturally occurring facets was key to early developments in crystallography, since they reflect the underlying symmetry of the crystal structure.


Avante Garde:
The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture and politics.


Signatory:
a person who has signed a document such as a treaty or contract or an organization, state, etc., on whose behalf such a document has been signed


Manifesto:
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature.


Non-representational:
Of, relating to, or being a style of art in which natural objects are not represented realistically; nonobjective.

Homework
Bring Examples to present of art that was created with the intention to be politically provocative
NB You can bring cartoons.