Art Vocabulary
chapter 4
elements and prinicaples of design
chapter 2
media and processes
100
Colors oppisite of each other on the color wheel
What is Complementry Colors
100
Description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment are the steps of...
What is Art Criticism
100
The basic components or building blocks of art: color, line, texture, shape, form, and space.
What is Elements of Art
100
A continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool or implied by the edges of shapes and forms
What is Line
100
A finely ground powder that give pain its color.
What is Pigment
200
A unique expressions of ideas, beliefs, experiences, and feelings presented in well-designed visual forms.
What is Visual Arts
200
Critics feel that an successful work must look like and remind viewers of what can be seen in the real world.
What is Imitationalism
200
browns, blacks, grays, and white, colors not associated with a hue
What is Neutral colors
200
Lines made by the edge of an object or its silhouette.
What is Outlines
200
An arrangement of inanimate objects such as food.
What is Still Life
300
Used to convince people to adopt a certain point of view or to enhance the power of a ruler or political party.
What is Propaganda
300
The theory, that the success of a artwork depends on its ability to communicate an emotion or idea to a viewer.
What is Emotionalism
300
Red, blue, and yellow - from which it is possible to mix all other colors
What is Primary colors
300
A object with three dimensions.
What is Form
300
A process in which ink is forced to fill lines cut into a metal surface.
What is Intaglio
400
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
What is Space
400
Any artwork that contains no apperant reference to reality.
What is Nonobjective Art
400
The colors obtained by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors - orange, green, and purple
What is Secondary colors
400
Follows consistent geometric rules for rendering objects as they appear to the human eye.
What is Linear Perspective
400
A techinque of capturing optical images on light-sensitive surfaces.
What is Photography
500
A way of combining elements to stress the differences between those elements.
What is Emphasis or Contrast
500
The most imporntant aspect of a work of art is the princaples of art to arange the elements of art.
What is Formalism
500
Describes the different ways artists can use each of the elements of art: balance, emphasis, harmony, variety, unity, movement, rythm, and proportion.
What is Principles of Art
500
Achieved by using less focus, along with bluer, lighter, and duller hues for the distant spaces and objects depicted in a picture - also called "Atmospheric Perspective".
What Aerial Perspective
500
Any kind of material that can be used, processed, and transformed by a computer system.
What is Digital Media