Techniques
A word used to describe the level of darkness present in a certain pigment. Can also be used as a verb to describe the process of adding darkness to a work of art.
What is shade?
Colors that lean toward the red/yellow side of the color spectrum.
What are warm colors?
The process of taking the time to create a quick physical representation of where and how the piece will be composed.
What is a sketch?
An art movement from the late 19th century that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction.
What is Impressionism?
Colors that lean toward the blue/green side of the color spectrum
What are cool colors?
A kind of painting that uses water-soluble pigments.
What is watercolor?
A method of shading created by using repeating intersecting lines to create shading for a piece.
What it hatching?
A term used to describe works of art that are not focused with creating a realistic or accurate reflection of reality.
What is Non-Representational?
The lines on a piece that contain and direct the other shapes present in the artwork
What is outline?
Where piece of a work of art are places in relation to each other.
What is composition?
To create or represent something by carving, casting, or other shaping techniques.
What is sculpt?
An art movement from the 20th century that broke free from representational work and challenged what was constituted ‘high art’.
What is Surrealism?
The physical arrangement/composition of a work of art.
What is form?
An art movement focused on highly posterized and saturated works of art, often copied directly from the pages of comic books, or taken from elements of day to day life.
What is Pop-Art?
The piece of the artwork that a viewer’s eye would be drawn to first.
What is focal point?