Stage 6 Vocabulary Basics

The range of colours in the artwork, consisting of both tints and shades. If only one main colour, the term monochromatic is applied.

• Monochromatic

• Duplicity

• Colour Scheme

• Palette

The imagery in the artwork.

• Subject Mattter

• Found Objects

• Images

• Focal Point

Accepted codes/rules of an art style or movement.

• Conventions

• Laws

• French Salon

• Modernism

Ready made objects (manufactured goods such

as domestic, mundane items) used in artworks.

• Found objects

• Mixed media

• Collage

• Subject matter

The most dominating image in the artwork.

• Focal Point

• Foreground

• Composition

• Subject matter

The French term for cutting-edge.

• avante-garde

• avocado-guard

• avant-gard

• avanity-gardee

An artistic strategy of taking an existing image for your own use. This strategy raises questions of originality, authenticity and authorship.

• Appropriation

• Recontextualisation

• Plagiarism

• Patische

The artistic term for materials.

• Media

• Equipment

• Tools

• Subject matter

The overall arching art style from the 1880s to 1960s that endeavoured to capture the subject through new techniques.

• Modernism

• Postmodernism

• Romanticism

• Cubism

Changing the context of a subject to deliberately critique and/or parody the original meaning.

• Modernism

• Recontextualisation

• Appropriation

• Satire