visual art terms
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- Contrast
- A sudden change ( dark to light, big to little, rough to smooth, straight to curved...)
- Expressive
- Artwork that is used to express the emotions, ideas or feelings or to show beauty.
- Landscape
- a picture that is about the land and the things that make it up
- 3-D Process
- How art is made that id seen form many sides (weaving, quilting, knitting, ceramic pottery, sculpture)
- Styles of Art
- the way artwork looks
- Ceremonial
- Artwork that is made for rituals, religious or cultural gatherings (african masks, kachina dolls...)
- Emphasis
- another name for focal point or the first part of the picture that you see.
- Color Schemes
- ways to group colors into families
- Non-Objective
- Artwork that has no objects in it... it just shows line, texture, shapes and colors.
- Balance
- to be of equal weight
- Form
- A 3-D area that can be measured in height, width, and depth ( cylinder, sphere, cube, pyramid, prism...)
- Collage
- a picture that is made by gluing items like paper, cloth and photos in an arrangement on a flat surface.
- Geometric Shapes
- Shapes that follow the rules of math including squares, triangles, circles, ovals, rectangles
- Cool Colors
- any blue, green or violet - colors that show cool atmospher, relaxation and calmness
- wavy
- line that curves back and forth
- Neutral Colors
- Brown, gray, black and white - earth tone colors that sometimes show boredom, depression and lonelyness
- Hue
- another name for color
- Freeform Shape
- another name for organic shape, they are made up or flowing shapes usually found in nature
- Realism
- Art that looks as much real subject as possible
- Symmetrical balance
- mirrored image that is created by the line of symmetry making it the same on both sides
- Portrait
- a picture that shows a person or a group of people and tells you something about them
- 3-D Media
- Materials used to make a work of art that is to be viewed form more than one side. ( Clay, Paper-Mache, stone, wood, metal)
- Primary colors
- red, yellow and blue - the basic colors that can not be made
- Functional
- artwork that is made to be used ( Native American Pottery or Weavings, baskets, quilts)
- Narrative
- Artwork that tells a story ( illustrations, totem poles, cave drawings, pictagraphs...)
- Paper Mache
- 3-D process and medium that takes pieces of towarn paper and layers them with glue and water mixture around a base form such as wire, balloons, paper form... to create a hard 3-D form that is painted and decorated.
- Texture
- The way a surface feels or looks like it would feel. (rough, smooth, silky, soft, fluffy...)
- Warm Colors
- Any red, yellow or orange - colors that show heat anger or energy
- Abstract
- to chang the way something looks but you can still tell what it is. ( painting a dog blue, or giving an apple zebra fur...)
- 2-D Media
- media that makes flat art that is fiewed form one side ( crayons, pencil, paint, paper, oil pastels, chalk, ink...)
- Still Life
- picture that has a group of objects that are arranged for the artist to look at and draw or paint. ( basket of fruit, vase of flowers...)
- Color
- the way the human eye sees light reflecting off a surface
- Shape
- A 2-D area that has height and width
- 4 ways to show emphasis
- 1. largest part of the picture 2. in the middle of the picture 3. other parts point to it 4. It contrast the rest of the picture
- Media
- Materials used to create a work of art (Medium is the singular form)
- Subject Matter
- What artwork is about
- Secondary Colors
- orange, green and violet - colors made by mixing 2 primary colors
- Purpose of Art
- Why the artist made the work of art
- 2-D Process
- How art is made that is flat ( painting, drawing, stamping, printmaking)
- Pattern
- a repeating of line, color, or shapes in a certain order