Elements & Emotions
Subject Matter Vocabulary
Interpreting Artwork
100

This element of art is typically separated into categories of warm and cool and expresses the emotions someone can feel. 

What is color?

100

This is a type of artwork that specifically contains a face.

What is a portrait?

100

The emotions that an artwork makes you feel.

What are feelings?

200

This element of art expresses emotion based on how something looks like it feels. (example:roughness --> anger)

What is texture?

200

This is the depiction of natural scenery such as forests, mountains, and rivers.

What is a landscape?

200

This describes what the artwork is about.

What is subject matter?

300

This element of art can be described as jagged, zig-zagged, etc. and is associated with how the artist feels when creating this. 

What is a line?

300

This is a work of art that features mostly inanimate objects

What is a still life?

300

This refers to the elements of art: line, shapes, colors, textures, value, space, form.

What are formal characteristics?

400

Empty ________ can often convey feelings of loneliness. 

What is space?

400
Art that does not represent or depict any identifiable person, place or thing.


What is non-objective?

400

The artistic choices that the artist made to express the meaning of their artwork.

What are art-making approaches?

500

Geometric ______ show emotion because curves such as circles depict calmness whereas sharp-edged _____ like squares depict agitation.

What are shapes?

500

This is a word that describes the style of artwork that an artists create.

What is genre?

500

Events happening in society or life that relates to the artwork. 

What is contextual information?

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