Terminology
having height, width, and depth
What is 3-Dimensional?
the material on or from which an artist chooses to make a work of art, for example canvas and oil paint, marble, engraving, video, or architecture
What is medium or media?
a genre of film made using stop-motion, hand-drawn, or digitally produced still images set into motion by showing them in sequence
Animation
the lightness or darkness of a plane or area
What is value?
a written language involving sacred characters that may be pictures as well as letters or signifiers of sounds
Hieroglyph
having irregular forms and shapes, as though derived from living organisms
What is organic?
a single image from the sequence that makes up a motion picture; on average, a 90-minute film contains 129,600 separate _________
Frame
a late nineteenth-century painting style using short strokes or points of differing colors that optically combine to form new perceived colors
Pointillism
the surface quality of a work, for example fine/coarse, detailed/lacking in detail
What is texture?
a period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century
What is the Renaissance?
the overall design or organization of a work
Composition
a perforated template allowing ink or paint to pass through to print a design
Stencil
a work in which the ideas are most important to the work
Conceptual art
a mark, or implied mark, between two endpoints
Line
Upper Paleolithic female figurine found in 1908 in Austria, made of limestone tinted with red ochre pigment, and dated to circa 25,000–20,000 B.C.E.
Venus of Willendorf or Woman of Willendorf
a drastic difference between such elements as color or value (lightness/darkness) when they are presented together.
Contrast
heating ceramic, glass, or enamel objects in a kiln, to harden them, fuse the components, or fuse a glaze to the surface
Firing
a Western European architectural style of the twelfth to sixteenth century, characterized by the use of pointed arches and ornate decoration
Gothic
the optical effect caused when reflected white light of the spectrum is divided into separate wavelengths
What is color?
relating to the Middle Ages; in Europe, roughly, between the fall of the Roman empire and the start of the Renaissance
art imagery that departs from recognizable images of the natural world
Abstract
the colored material used in paints. Often made from finely ground minerals
What is pigment?
an artistic style, at its height in 1920s Europe, devoted to representing subjective emotions and experiences instead of objective or external reality
Expressionism
a two-dimensional area, the boundaries of which are defined by lines or suggested by changes in color or value
Shape
Greek art of the period c. 480–323 BCE
Classical