This term means the materials used to produce a work of art.
What is MEDIA/MEDIUM?
100
Small pencil drawings used to develop the initial concept for a design.
What are THUMBNAIL SKETCHES?
100
An artwork/object that has height, width and depth and is meant to be viewed from all sides.
What is SCULPTURAL FORM in-the-round?
100
This technological invention freed the artist from representationalism.
What is PHOTOGRAPHY/THE CAMERA?
100
In perspective, the place on the horizon in the distance where two lines seem to converge and visibility ends.
What is VANISHING POINT?
200
Art that has no recognizable subject matter.
What is NON OBJECTIVE?
200
A shading technique used to create value with overlapping lines.
What is CROSSHATCHING?
200
The area in a work of art that the viewer's eye is drawn to first.
What is the FOCAL POINT (emphasis)?
200
This is why we cannot know the meaning of Prehistoric artwork.
What is there were no WRITTEN RECORDS?
200
The artist who developed the style of Cubism.
Who is PICASSO?
300
The way in which a work of art is structured and organized.
What is COMPOSITION?
300
A mathematical system that creates the illusion of depth and volume on a flat surface.
What is PERSPECTIVE?
300
Lines that define the outer edges of forms and surfaces within a form, such as shapes or wrinkles and folds.
What are CONTOUR LINES?
300
The art of Greece and Rome was created in this historic Period.
What is CLASSICAL?
300
The philosophy of perceiving and enjoying something for its beauty and pleasurable qualities.
What is AESTHETICS?
400
Drawing what you see.
What is OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING?
400
A transparent layer of watercolor. Examples include graded, blended and flat.
What is WASH?
400
When things in a composition on either side of a center line are different yet balanced.
What is ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE?
400
The era or period in art history most associated with emotional intensity, dramatic lighting and movement, and several church commissioned works.
What is the BAROQUE period?
400
A theory focusing on an artwork's use of elements and principles.
What is FORMALISM?
500
Term for creating the illusion of depth by placing one object in front of another.
What is OVERLAPPING?
500
The act of rendering an image on a surface by lines to create value with a pencil, crayon, chalk, pastels, etc... is referred to as this.
What is drawing?
500
This element of art can be either real or implied.
What is TEXTURE?
500
Light caught in different conditions, the attempt to capture fleeting moments and short choppy brushstrokes are all characteristics of this Style/Period of painting.