Produced or intended primarily for aesthetic purposes rather than utility. Any of the art forms, such as sculpture, painting, or music.
What is art?
100
The plan the artist uses to organize the art elements (line, shape, form, space, etc.) in a work of art to achieve a unified composition.
What is design?
100
An element of art that is used to define space, contours, and outlines, or suggest mass and volume. It may be a continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool or implied by the edges of shapes and forms.
What is line?
100
In pictures, positive shapes are the figures and negative shapes make up the ground.
What are positive and negative shapes?
100
From the Italian meaning, "light-dark." The use of value contrasts to represent the effects of light and shadow.
What is chiaroscuro?
200
The materials, such as oil, watercolor, etc., used to create an artwork; or a category of art such as drawing, painting, or sculpture.
What is medium?
200
A listing of facts in an artwork, such as objects , people, shapes, and colors.
What is description?
200
Shading using closely spaced, parallel lines; used to suggest light and shadow.
What is hatching?
200
A method of applying perspective to an object or figure so that it seems to recede in space by shortening the depth dimension, making the form appear three-dimensional.
What is foreshortening?
200
One color that is modified by changing the values and saturation of the hue by additions of black or white.
What is monochromatic?
300
Describing an artwork based on an identifiable subject, but with few or no details, and whose visual elements are simplified or rearranged.
What is abstract?
300
The examination of the relationships among the facts (objects, people, shapes, colors) in an artwork.
What is analysis?
300
Shading created by crossed parallel lines.
What is crosshatching?
300
(also bimorphic) Free forms, or shapes and forms that represent living things having irregular edges, as distinguished from the regular edges of geometric shapes.
What are organic shapes?
300
Those hues in which yellow and red are dominant.
What are warm colors?
400
Objects made of clay and fired in a kiln to a permanent form. These are often decorated with glazes and fired again to fuse the glazes to the clay body.
What is ceramics?
400
An explanation of the meaning of an artwork.
What is interpretation?
400
Implied lines suggested by the direction in which figures in a picture are looking, or from the observer's eye to the object being looked at.
What is line of sight?
400
Forms in painting and sculpture that have few or no openings, or negative shapes.
What are closed forms?
400
Those colors in which blue is dominant, found on the right side of the color wheel.
What are cool colors?
500
Works that have for, style, and subject matter that are familiar to the public as art.
What is traditional art?
500
A process used to determine the quality or lasting importance of a work.
What is evaluation?
500
Where one shape ends and another begins, resulting in implied line.
What is edge?
500
Forms in paintings and sculpture that emphasize openings.
What are open forms?
500
Bands of colored light created when white light is passed through a prism. Also, the full range of colors.