Chapters 1 and 2 Vocabulary Quiz

line, shape, form, color, value, space, and texture, The building blocks the artist works with to create an artwork.

• Principles of Design

• Elements of Art

Produced or intended primarily for aesthetic purposes rather than utility. Any of the art forms, such as sculpture, painting, or music

• Art

• Subject Matter

• Medium

• Traditional Art

The materials, such as oil, watercolor, etc., used to create an artwork; or category of art such as drawing, painting, or sculpture

• Ceramics

• Subject Matter

• Design

• Medium

Objects made of clay and fired in a kiln to a permanent form. Ceramics are often decorated with glaze and fired again to fuse the glazes to the clay body

• Sculpture

• Paintings

• Cermaics

• Mixed Media

The examination of the relationships among the facts (objects, people, shapes, colors) in an artwork

• Analysis

• Composition

• Description

• Design

A systematic discussion of the characteristics of an artwork, usually involving four stages: description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation.

• Analysis

• Art Criticism

• Design

• Evaluation

A listing of the facts in an artwork, such as objects, people, shapes, and color

• Analysis

• Description

• Evaluation

• Expressiveness

a process used to determine the quality or lasting importance of a work

• Analysis

• Composition

• Evaluation

• Description

A feeling of balance attained when the visual units on either side of a vertical axis are actually different but are placed in the composition to create a “felt” balance of the total artwork

• Symmetrical Balance

• Asymmetrical Balance

• Interpret

• Balance

A principle of design referring to the arrangement of visual elements to create stability in an artwork

• Balance

• Perspective

• Color

• Line