GLOSSARY |
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| Abstarct Arrangement | a design done as and art form, in which plant material and other components are used solely as line, form, color and texture, with space, to create new images. |
| Accessory | anything in a arrangement in addition to plant material, container, base, background or mechanics subordinate in design. |
| Arrangement | plant material organized in a container on a base. |
| Assemblage | a creative art form. Objects related through form, color, and/or texture, but necessarily funtionally or emotionally related. Natural size of objects is a must. |
| Background | a surface against which an arrangement is viewed, which may include back, sides and surface beneath the design. |
| Balance | the visual stability of a design. |
| Base | a component used under a design; generally optional, it may be a wood block, scroll board, mat or any item of the designer's choice. |
| Bloom | a flower past the bud stage thereafter including fully open |
| Bud | the stage of development in which the sepals are down, the petals just beginning to unfurl. |
| Chroma | the strengh or weakness of a color, generally referring to its purity. |
| Classical Style | a style of japanese flower arrangement, characterized by simplicity and restraint. |
| Climber | a rose so designated by being registered as such. |
| Color | a design element. This is affected by reflected light rays. An absence of light would result in no color. |
| Componants | plant material, container, background and mechanics of a flower arrangement. |
| Condition | the physical state of plant material or other arrangement components. |
| Contrast | a design principle. The use of opposite or unlike elements, qualities or forces. |
| Design | the organization of the design elements in a arrangement. |
| Design Principles | balance,dominance, contrast,rhythm, proportion and scale. Basic art standards based on natural laws. |
| Distinction | marked superiority in all respects. |
| Dominance | the stronger effect of one or more of the elements in the design. Dominance implies presence of subordination. |
| Dried Plant Material | plant material from which the moisture has been removed. |
| Exhibit | a unit in a competive or non-competive class; may also be educational or decorative. |
| Exhibition Rose | a rose, when half to three-fourths open, which has classic hybrid tea form: a high center with petals symmetrically arranged in an attractive circular outline. The form may occur in many types, not only hybrid teas. |
| Feature | anything in a arrangement in addition to plant material, container, base, mechanics or background, dominant in a design. Or to give prominence to. |
| Flower Arranging | the art of organizing the design elements of plant material and other components according to design principles to obtain beauty, harmony,distinction, and expression. |
| Form | a design element. |
| Free Form Design | a creative art form, free from conventional ideas and patterns, within the limits of principles of design. |
| Fresh Plant Material | any part severed from a living plant in fresh condition. |
| Floret | an individual bloom in a spray. |
| Floribunda | a rose so dignated by registration as such. |
| Flower Head | the collection of florets and buds that form an inflorescence. |
| Full Blown Bloom | a mature, open bloom, showing stamens. |
| Functional | pertaining to implied practical use or purpose. |
| Grandiflora | a rose so designated by registration as such. |
| Gradation | a sequence in which there is regular and orderly change. It may be in size, form, color or texture. |
| Harmony | a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts. |
| Hogarth Curve | an arrangement following the line of a lazy S named "the line of beauty" by Hogarth. |
| Hybrid Tea | a rose so designated by registration as such. |
| Hue | the name of an individual spectrum color such as yellow, red, green. |
| Inflorescence | a coherent arrangement of florets making a pleasing presentation of blooms--very commonly found in floribundas, grandifloras, climbers and miniatures. |
| Line | a continuous visual path. A design elelment. |
| Linear | made of or pertaining to line. |
| Linear Form | a form in which length is the dominant dimension. |
| Macro Mini | a rose cultivar classified as a miniature which has large size- generally more than 1 1/4" in diameter. |
| Mechanics | contrivances used to hold and control materials in design. |
| Micro Mini | a rose cultivar classified as a miniature which is diminutive in size- generally less then 3/4" in diameter. |
| Miniature Arrangement | a design which is five inches or smaller in any direction. |
| Miniature Rose | a rose so designated by being registered as such. |
| Mobile | a groupng of suspended forms having visual balance in which actual movement can be induced by air currents. |
| Naturalistic Design | an arrangement with plant material arranged close to its normal pattern. |
| Neutral Colors | white, black, grey; completely lacking in chroma and hue. |
| Niche | a recessed space. |
| Novice | a show professional who has earned five or less ribbons in arrangement classes in ARS sanctioned shows. |
| Originality | the product of one's thought and imagination. May apply to choice of materials or to the manner of usage. |
| Old Fashion Rose | a rose of all classes of roses that were in existence prior to 1867. The registration of the cultivar is the determinant of inclusion in this group. |
| Pattern | the silhouette created by a combination of lines, forms, colors and the spaces between them. A design element. |
| Period Style | that of a designated historical era, including the present. |
| Primary Colors | the pigment primaries are red, yellow and blue and are the colors from which all others are derived. |
| Principal Hues | primaries of red, blue, and yellow; secondaries of orange, violet and green. |
| Principals Of Design | basic art standards used to organize design elements. These principles are balance. proportion, style, rhythm, dominance and contrast. |
| Proportion | the relationship of the length, area, or volume of one part to another of one part to the whole. A design principle. |
| Pure Color | hues in which no white or black is present. |
| Quill | the manner in which an individual petal will fold back from each side, rolling the petal edges under in a scroll- like fashion. |
| Receding Colors | blue and those colors in which blue predominates. |
| Repetition | the repeating of size, form,color,direction in a design. |
| Rhythm | dominant visual path through the design. A design principle. |
| Scale | the size relationship of the componant parts of a design. A design principal. |
| Secondary Colors | orange, violet, and green produced when equal parts of primaries are mixed. |
| Shade | a mixture of pure hue and black; a dark value of a hue, opposed to a tint. |
| Shape | a form predominantly two-dimensioned. |
| Silhouette | the outline of an arrangement against its background. |
| Single Rose | a bloom of five petals to twelve petals. |
| Size | the dimension of a line, shape, form or space. |
| Small Arrangement | a design larger than five inches but not larger than eight inches in any direction. |
| Space | the open areas in and around the arrangement. The three dimensional expanse within which an arrangement is organized. A design elelment. |
| Spray | a group of florets on one main or lateral stem; must have two or more blooms. |
| Standard Arrangement | any design larger then eight inches in any direction. Normally it is composed of roses of other than the miniature classification. |
| Style | a characteristic manner of arranging. |
| Stylized Design | an arrangemnet with emphasis on silhouette, loosely called a modern interpretation. |
| Subordination | subduing or making less emphatic or less important; implies the presence of dominance. |
| Symmetrical Balance | similar on two sides of a real or imaginary vertical axis.+ |
| Symmetry | regular repetion of like or similar elements on either side of a median line, plane or central point |
| Texture | the quality of the surface structure, such as rough, smooth, dull, shiny,etc. A design elelment. |
| Tint | a mixture of pure hue and white. A light value as opposed to a shade. |
| Tone | a hue that has been grayed by adding black. |
| Traditional | handed down from the past. |
| Transition | plant material chosen to give gradation between the center of interest to the tapered outline of a design. |
| Treated Plant Material | plant material whose appearance has been altered but is still recognizable as plant material. This includes glycerinizing, skeletonizing, painting, or alteration by any method. |
| Triptych | a background made of cardboard, plywood, masonite, resembling a niche, which has sides that are angled forward--normally at about forty-five degrees. |
| Unity | the relation of all parts, a harmonious whole; oneness. |
| Value | the lightness or darkness of a color. |
| Variety | a named cultivar of any type. |
| Warm Hues | red and other hues in which red predominates. |
| Weathered Wood | weather-worn, seasoned or affected in form, color, and texture by exposed to the elements--wind water, freezing, light, or organic growth, etc. |