Illumination: Decoration with drawings, usually in gold, silver and bright colors, used most commonly in medieval manuscript pages.

-Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Illusionism: The imitation of visual reality created on the flate surface ofthe picture plane by the use of perspective, light-and-dark shading, etc.

-Art Fundamentals

Illustration: An art practice that stresses anecdotes or story situations.

-Art Fundamentals

Impasto: method of paint application where there is a visible, tactile level of paint above the surrounding surface.

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Implied Line: Implied lines are those that dim, fade, stop, and or disappear where the missing part is implied to continue and is visually completed by the observer as the line reappears.

-Art Fundamentals

Impressionism: Impressionism is the term referring to the Parisian Group of painters who defied the established 'rules of painting' and went with a more rough approach. Their paintings were often of the moment, capturing a moment in time, versus capturing something static. Their paintings were often blurry, containing loose brushstrokes and bright colors. The members of this movement challenged how art was defined in the late 1800's.

-Art Fundamentals

Infinite Space: A concept where the picture frame acts as a window through which objects can be seen receding endlessly.

-Art Fundamentals

Intensity: The saturation, strength, or purity of a hue. A vivid color is of high intensity, where a dull color is of low intensity.

-Art Fundamentals

Intensity: Color used without mixing it with another color. In painting it is used in regards to paint applied straight out of the tube.
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