Painting

Painting is a form of art in which one uses different types of colors, textures, and brush strokes to create specific images on a canvas or even a digital surface. A painting can vary based on the type of colors that the painter uses. For example, painters use oil-based colors to create oil paintings and water-based colors to create watercolor paintings. While using watercolors, painters dilute colors using water and agitate the combination to create new shades. The genre of a painting also varies depending upon what is painted. Some painters prefer abstract forms of paintings, while some prefer realistic ones that mimic photographs of a person or a scene.
Understanding a painting and the thought process behind it is also a form of art. Some paintings may be quite complex, with layers of meanings to them. Although every painting depicts a certain theme, it is more challenging to understand themes in abstract art than in realistic art.
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What does the word abstract mean as used in the passage?
A.
an idea that does not have a concrete existence
B.
extraction or removal of something
C.
a summary of a book or a paper
D.
something that is detached and theoretical

Welcome to the vocabulary assessment. by connecting with words in a more interactive way, through a graphic organizer that includes your own ideas, we hope you will learn new vocabulary strategies to integrate into your course work and your everyday life. objectives: use a variety of techniques to acquire a range of words determine, clarify, and illustrate the meaning of unfamiliar words to ensure that you properly and successfully complete the vocabulary assessment, do the following: complete the assessment using the passage provided. select a word from the passage, and identify/create each of the following for that word: denotation connotations synonyms antonyms affixes the sentence from the passage where the word appears an original sentence using the word a memory trick type your responses in the appropriate boxes. after you have typed your responses, print your graphic organizer and submit it to your teacher. be careful not to refresh the page before printing, as some browsers will not save your work. passage from "the pit and the pendulum" by edgar allan poe very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and in my ears the sound of its beating. then a pause in which all is blank. then again sound, and motion, and touch, a tingling sensation pervading my frame. then the mere consciousness of existence, without thought, a condition which lasted long. then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state. then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. then a rushing revival of soul and a successful effort to move. and now a full memory of the trial, of the judges, of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of the swoon. then entire forgetfulness of all that followed; of all that a later day and much earnestness of endeavor have enabled me vaguely to recall.