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Art Potpourri
Elements & Principles
Art Vocabulary
100
The visual appearance of the surface of an object.
What is texture?
100
A quick sketch that captures the basic form and idea of an object or subject.
What is a gestural drawing?
100
Art forms are experienced through our sight (visually) such as photography, printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpting.
What are the visual arts?
100
The path of a moving point.
What is line?
100
A portrait which shows the artist.
What is a self-portrait?
200
A technique using small dots to create different values.
What is stippling?
200
Relative size or comparative relation between things.
Proportion
200
Art created on a flat surface.
What is two-dimensional art?
200
An enclosed space or closed lines.
What is shape?
200
The front of a scene or picture, where objects appear the biggest of all the objects in a picture because they are closest to the viewer.
What is foreground?
300
The use of something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance.
What is symbolism?
300
The way objects spatially appear to us.
What is perspective?
300
Removal of the outer parts of an image to create and interesting composition.
What is cropping?
300
The distance between and around an object.
What is space?
300
The horizontal (sideways) line where things seem to end (usually where the land meets the sky in landscapes).
What is a horizon line?
400
The illusion of texture that is created on a two-dimensional surface such as a drawing.
What is visual texture?
400
A work of art showing common objects.
What is a still life?
400
A shading technique where different values are created by using line.
What is cross-hatching?
400
Element of art that refers to the luminosity (lightness and darkness) of a color.
What is value?
400
The discussion or evaluation of visual art.
What is art criticism?
500
The week 9 project due in art 1 this week.
What is the museum poster?
500
A drawing, painting, photograph, or sculpture in which a person’s face and facial expression are the main focus.
What is a portrait?
500
A design that can be taken from reality but changed in some way to make it unusual, distorted, maybe a little different.
What is abstract?
500
A repetition of colors, lines, and/or shapes.
What is pattern?
500
Where you feel the real texture of an object; this type of texture can be found in sculptures.
What is tactile texture?
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