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PCC: a CAB member, Polk Community College. Campuses are in Lakeland and Winter Haven, which is the main campus and where the arts gallery is located. They are located under, "Arts & Education", "Music,:" and "Culture" on our web site.
PMOA: Polk Museum of Art, a CAB member located in Lakeland, FL. In 2007, they celebrated 40 years. They are listed under "Museums" on our web site.
PPP: Pied Piper Players, a community theatre company located in Lakeland, FL listed under, "Visual & Performing Arts." They are also a CAB member.
Papier-mâché: sculpture medium that uses paper or rags dipped in wheat paste (wallpaper paste) over an armature.
Pastels: pigments pressed into sticks and used as a dry medium on paper; sometimes referred to as hard or soft chalk pastels. oil pastels: media with similar color pigments as chalk pastels, but an oil-and-wax composition.
Patent: a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of an invention.
Pattern: repetition of an element of art (i.e., shapes, lines, or colors) to achieve decoration or ornamentation.
Perspective: system of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface, giving the illusion of depth in space. Linear perspective deals with drawing, and atmospheric perspective attempts to use color and value changes to get the effect of distance.
Photography: Photography literally means "written with light." Photographs are created by the action of light on a sensitive surface—be it paper, glass, copper, leather, wood, porcelain, fabric or plastic. This definition does not refer to digital photography.
Plagiarize: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
intransitive verb : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Plein Air: plein air literally means "open air" in French, the term plein air is generally used to refer to paintings executed out of doors. The Bartow Art Guild beginning in November 2007 will have the first Plein Air festival.
Portfolio:
a set of pictures (as drawings or photographs) usually bound in book form or loose in a folder, a selection of a student's work (as papers and tests) compiled over a period of time and used for assessing performance or progress.
Portrait: subject matter category in which the main purpose of the art work is to communicate a likeness of an individual or group of individuals.
Positive space: the primary subject matter in a work of art, as opposed to the background or unoccupied spaces.
Primary colors: hues that cannot be produced by a mixture of other hues: magenta red, yellow, and cyan (turquoise) blue.
Principles of design: concepts for combining the elements of art into successful art forms, including balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, repetition, rhythm, proportion, unity, and variety.
Printmaking: the process of reproducing images on a flat surface; three types are relief block (linoleum, wood), intaglio (etching, engraving), and stencil (silkscreen).
Processes: both art methods and the media used for visual communication in a variety of art forms.
Proportion: the relationship in size of one component of a work of art to another. |
