News

Glossary

I

Idealism

The tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as they are.

Impressionism

A late 19th century art movement that sought to break up light into its component parts and capture its fleeting effects on various surfaces through discontinuous strokes of color.

Industrial materials

Raw materials used in construction.

Intensity

Also called chroma or saturation. It refers to the brightness of a color (a color is full in intensity only when pure and unmixed). Color intensity can be changed by adding black, white, gray, or an opposite color on the color wheel.

Partners


Museum of Photographic Arts
Mingei Museum Timken Museum of Art

The CARE program relies on contributions from generous donors like you!

Please Donate