Visual Art Terms: C
CMYK Color
Calligraphy: The art of letter forms, using flowing lines with deliberate transitions from thick to thin line weight for artistic effect.
Camera Obscura
Candid
Canon
Canvas
Caricature
Cartes-de-visit
Catalogue Raisonné
Celluloid
Censorship
Ceramics
Charcoal
Chromatic Aberration
Chine collé
Choreography
Chromogenic Print
Cinématographe
Cinematographer
Cityscape
Classicism
Codex
Collage
Color
Color Field Painting
Composite Picture
Commission
Complementary Colors: two colors that are opposite one another on a color wheel. When mixed in the correct, complementary colors form a neutral gray.
Composition
Concentric
Conceptual Art
Construct
Constructivism
Contrast
Contour
Contrast
Costume
Crop Factor
Cropping
Cubism: a 20th century art movement that originated in France in the early 1900s. Artists of this movement sought to break down traditional notions of perspective and representation, often fragmenting forms and using multiple viewpoints in their work. Cubist paintings often appear flat and geometric, with a focus on the two-dimensional surface of the canvas. Prominent Cubist artists: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Curator