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  2. Artistic tone - Wikipedia

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    Tone in an artistic context refers to the light and dark values used to render a realistic object, or to create an abstract composition. When using pastel , an artist may often use a colored paper support, using areas of pigment to define lights and darks, while leaving the bare support to show through as the mid-tone.

  3. The arts - Wikipedia

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    Performing arts are distinguished by this performance element in contrast with disciplines such as visual and literary arts, where the product is an object that does not require a performance to be observed and experienced. Each discipline in the performing arts is temporal in nature, meaning the product is performed over a period of time.

  4. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Authors create tone through the use of various other literary elements, such as diction or word choice; syntax, the grammatical arrangement of words in a text for effect; imagery, or vivid appeals to the senses; details, facts that are included or omitted; and figurative language, the comparison of seemingly unrelated things for sub-textual ...

  5. Graphic arts - Wikipedia

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    Graphic art mostly includes calligraphy, photography, painting, typography, computer graphics, and bindery. It also encompasses drawn plans and layouts for interior and architectural designs. [1] In museum parlance "works on paper" is a common term, covering the various types of traditional fine art graphic art.

  6. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    Elements of art are stylistic features that are included within an art piece to help the artist communicate. [1] The seven most common elements include line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality.

  7. Portal:The arts - Wikipedia

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    The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing, and being in an extensive range of media. Both dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life have developed into stylized and intricate ...

  8. Tone - Wikipedia

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    Tone (linguistics), the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages; Tone (musical instrument), the audible characteristics of a musician's sound; Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre; Pure tone, a tone with a sinusoidal waveform; Reciting tone, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in ...

  9. Portal:The arts/Intro - Wikipedia

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    The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing, and being in an extensive range of media. Both dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life have developed into stylized and intricate ...