Digital Paintings - Key Words

 Advertising: The paid, public, and persuasive promotion of products and services

Appropriation: The act of taking or seizing something for one's own use, without permission

Colour: The visual perception of light, characterized by hue, saturation, and value

Conceptualism: An art movement that refers to a diverse range of artistic practices from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when emphasis was placed on the concept of idea rather than the physical art object

Content: The why and what behind the visual form 

Contrast: The state of being different from something else in juxtaposition or association

Exaggeration: The act of representing something as more extreme, intense, or important than it actually is

Excessive:

Going beyond what's normal, necessary, or reasonable 

Figuration: Figurative art describes any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure

From TATE

Form: It can refer to the overall form taken by the work – its physical nature; or within a work of art, it can refer to the element of shape among the various elements that make up a work

Hyperreal: A concept that describes a condition when the difference between reality and fabricated representations starts to blur

Irony: In visual art, irony can be used as a subtle rebellion, a way for artists to question and challenge social norms and society as a whole

From Google

Kitsch: Refers to art, objects, or designs deemed to be in poor taste due to being seen as too 'much' or 'childish' in today's society 

From Google

Net-Art: Art that is made on and for the internet. It encompasses various sub-genres of computer-based art, including browser art and software art

Sincerity:

The quality of being honest and true in your actions, words, and creations

Surrealism: Twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary

 

From Google

Pop Surrealism: Pop surrealism, or lowbrow art, is a 1960s/70s California-based movement merging technical fine art with underground culture, comics, punk and kitsch

From Google