Elements
Media
Principals
Vocab
Color
100

 This element is something that is three-dimensional and encloses volume, having length, width, and height, versus shape, which is two-dimensional, or flat.

 

Form

100

This term is commonly used to describe the finished results of clay products. 


Ceramics 

100

separate parts working together in a composition. In an artwork, unity creates a sense of harmony and wholeness by using similar elements and placing them in a way that creates a feeling of “oneness.”


unity 

100

This is an oven or furnace for hardening, burning, or drying something.


Kiln

100

This other word for color is a gradation or variety of a color; tint: pale hues. the property of light by which the color of an object is classified as red, blue, green, or yellow in reference to the spectrum. 

Hue

200

 This element is defined as an identifiable path created by a point moving in space. It is one-dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length. Lines often define the edges of a form.

 

Line

200

For centuries sculptors have also used this material as a procedural material for making molds before executing a final artwork in more permanent mediums like bronze. It comes in a powder form and when water is added to it, it becomes hardened. 


Plaster 

200

 This principal refers to the dimensions of a composition and relationships between height, width and depth. How it  is used will affect how realistic or stylized.  This also describes how the sizes of different parts of a piece of art or design relate to each other.

 

proportion 

200
A technique in which clay is thoroughly kneaded before use in sculpture or pottery, to make it malleable and remove air pockets.



Wedging 

200

 These are the basic colors that can be mixed together to produce other colors.

 

Primary colors 

300

  This element refers to the visual and tactile surface characteristics that are added to a work of art. It refers to the physical appearance or feel of an object, and can be seen through bumps, ridges, grooves and other physical details.

 

Texture 

300

This material is used to give clay its shiny coating. It also makes the clay food safe. 


Glaze

300

 This principal refers to how artists and designers add complexity to their work using visual elements. Contrast, difference and change, and elaboration all add visual interest to an artist's work.

 

Variety 

300

  This a type of sculpture usually designed to stand alone. The sculptor must design and sculpt it with the notion that a viewer could be standing at any angle to view it.

 

In the Round 

300
This refers to any hue or mixture of pure colors to which white is added. Pastel colors are generally tinted colors.  These colors remain the same color, but it is paler than the original.



Tint

400

This element of art deals with the depth, width, and height of an object. It also refers to the area around, under, over, and behind, as well as, the object it's self and the area around the object. 


Space

400

 This is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures. It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as well as elements to be fitted to other objects such as furniture.


Bronze 

400

 related to pattern and movement this principal in art is the visual or auditory pattern created by repeated shapes, elements, colors, sounds, and movements. It is used to create a sense of flow and connection within a work of art, as well as draw attention to certain areas of the composition.

 

Rhythm 

400

  This is used to describe the central idea or topic of a piece of creative work. This is what gives any piece of art its meaning and what allows viewers to engage with it on a deeper level, whether it be a painting, sculpture, or photograph.

  

Subject matter 

400

A color created by mixing a primary color with the secondary color next to it. These colors include red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.

 

Intermediate colors 

500

Although this is not an element of art, this refers closely to the element of space. It is the Space that the object consumes as well as the area round the object itself. 


Positive and Negative space 

500

A radical and outrageous approach that challenges the meaning of art by using everyday objects as its medium. Explore how this movement influenced Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, and other art movements

 

Found Object 

500

Closely related to unity this is a principle of art that refers to how well all the visual elements work together. Elements that use this principal should have some kind of logical progression or relationship. It should just look like it works.

 

Harmony 

500

 This art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time

 

Installation 

500

 These color combinations created by the equal mixture of two primary colors. On the color wheel, these colors are located between primary colors.

 

Secondary colors