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Articulate
Composed of jointed segments, distinctly jointed or marked, divided into distinct and significant parts.

The way or means in which the smaller units of a composition are organised into a unity. The manipulation of the elements of art such as shapes and colours laterally or spatially, that is away from the spectator or into the picture or overlapping. This term can be applied to both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art works.