Fine Art Vocabulary

What is Value?

• Light or dark; the variations of light and dark on the surface of an object. The lightness or darkness of a color.

• Principle of design concerned with the size relationships of one part to the whole and one part to another.

• Printing technique that makes use of a squeegee to force ink directly onto a piece of paper or canvas through a stencil containing the image. (The process is also called silk-screen or serigraphy.)

• Principle of design concerned with the size relationships of one part to the whole and one part to another.

Contrast is __________?

• mostly green, blue, violet (purple).

• Use of opposites near or beside one another (light and dark, rough and smooth).

• The name of a color – red blue, yellow, etc.

• Brightness of a color.

Body Art

• Before starting a painting, an artist may 'block-in' the composition of the painting using rough outlines or geometric shapes to show him how everything fits on the canvas. Virtually all portrait painters use this 'blocking in' method.

• A type of contemporary art in which the artist's body is the "canvas".

• tyle of decoration of ancient Greek ceramics, chiefly of 6th-century BCE Corinth. Designs were painted on the object in black metal oxide paint and then incised through to the reddish clay.

• A highly influential school (1919-33) of avant-garde design, founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in Weimar. Synonymous with modernist architecture and arts & crafts.

Art created according to the rules of official academies of painting and sculpture which flourished in the 17th to the 19th centuries; conservative; often based on classical models.

• Academic Style

• abstract

• arbitrary color

• art criticism

A strong cloth which, since the Renaissance, many artists have used as a surface for painting.

• charcoal

• brushstroke

• canvas

• collection

A work of art, often on paper, that uses primarily line.

• diagonal

• drawing

• emphasis

• design

Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention. This area usually has contrasting sizes, shapes, colors or other distinctive features.

• easel painting

• emphasis

• figure

• fine art

imagination _______________?

• The ability to picture things in the mind, often things that are not seen in the real world.

• An artwork that depicts the land (mountains, valleys, rivers, etc.) as subject matter. Categories of landscape include cityscape and seascape.

• e A painting technique in which contours or outlines are prominent.

• A conscious state or temper of mind or predominant emotion.

Art that shows a recognizable subject with lifelike colors, textures, shadows and proportions.

• Regionalism

• Royal Academy

• realistic

• representational

A drawing done quickly to catch the important features of a subject. Also, a drawing that may be used to try out an idea or plan another work.

• shape

• space

• study

• sketch