Visual Art Vocabulary
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- acrylic paint
- a nontoxic, water-based pigment
- aesthetics
- focuses on the nature and value of art, provides criteria for which art is evaluauted, the nature of beauty
- architecture
- the art of designing and planning the building of structures
- art crtitcism
- to describe, analyze, interpret and judge an art work
- background
- part of the picture plane that seems furthest from the viewer
- ceramics
- making visual art from clay, fired in a kiln to make it stronger
- collage
- cut materials pasted on a surface
- commercial art
- graphic art produced for advertising and packaging
- composition
- arrangement of elements of art
- content
- idea or theme the artist id trying to get across
- contour
- outline of objects or shapes
- design
- organization, plan, or arrangement of work
- elements of art
- componenets of which all art is made; line, shape, color, texture, value, form, and space
- engraving
- sharp tool scratches line into a metal plate. create a print
- expression
- process of conveying ideas
- foreground
- part of the picture plane that seems closest to the viewer
- forshortening
- object or person seems to go back into space
- landscape
- shows natural outdoor scenes
- loom
- machine for weaving
- materials
- resources used in creating art
- meduim
- material used to create art
- middle ground
- area between foreground and background
- mixed media
- artwork that uses more than one medium
- modern art
- the latest style of art
- mosaic
- art made of small pieces of stone or glass inplaster or cement
- paper mache
- mashed paper and liquid paste
- perception
- visual and sensory awareness
- perspective
- illusion of 3 dimensions on a 2-D space
- picture plane
- surface of a painting or drawing
- pottery
- container made of clay
- portrait
- image of a person's face
- primary colors
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red, yellow, and blue
possible to mix all colors using these three colors - principles of design
- how the elements are used; balance, rhythm, center of interest, emphasis, contrast, repitition, movement, variety, and unity
- printmaking
- art produced from one surface to another
- rubbing
- transfering textural qualities