Vocabulary

Shape

• Enclosed area of an artwork created through lines, textures, colors or an area enclosed by other shapes such as triangles, circles, and squares

• How an artist makes our eyes travel around an artworks edges and lines

• Constructed by repeating or echoing the elements of an artwork to communicate a sense of balance, harmony, contrast, rhythm or movement

• Relationship of two or more elements in a composition and how they compare to one another with respect to size

Proportion: Select the best definition from list

• The way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched

• How an artist makes our eyes travel around an artworks edges and lines

• Constructed by repeating or echoing the elements of an artwork to communicate a sense of balance, harmony, contrast, rhythm or movement

• Relationship of two or more elements in a composition and how they compare to one another with respect to size

Pattern: Select the best definition from list

• The tool use to smooth the clay surface

• Constructed by repeating or echoing the elements of an artwork to communicate a sense of balance, harmony, contrast, rhythm or movement

• How an artist makes our eyes travel around an artworks edges and lines

• The way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched

Line: Select the best definition from list

• Blue marks on paper

• Marks made drawing drawing tool or placed on a surface. Types of lines: thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, zigzag, diagonal, curly, curved, spiral, etc. and are often very expressive

• The shape of the outside of an object

• Scratches on a surface to create a ruff feeling when touched

Texture: Select the best definition from list

• The surface quality in a work of art. Surface that is rough, smooth, silky, shiny, fuzzy or scratched

• The area around and between a subject - sometimes empty space or holes

• Feels like sandpaper

• The shape of the outside of an object

Negative Space: Select the best definition from list

• Part of the artwork with no carving or design -blank space

• Scrapes and scratches on the artwork that distract from the design

• The area around and between a subject - sometimes empty space or holes

• Space between stars

Rhythm: Select the best definition from list

• Is the appearance of oneness and similarity in an artwork

• Arrangement of parts so that they have equal weight or force

• To repeat a pattern through color, texture, value creating rhythm

• The sound the Art work makes when touched

Movement: Select the best definition from list

• Arrangement of parts so that they have equal weight or force

• A piece of artwork that moves

• Mobile art that hangs and moves in the wind

• How an artist makes our eyes travel around an artworks edges and lines

Balance: Select the best definition from list

• Arrangement of parts so that they have equal weight or force

• How an artist makes our eyes travel around artwork

• Difference between objects through color, texture, value, etc.

• The weight the clay

Form: Select the best definition from list

• Three dimensional form of a two dimensional shape

• Size of the piece of artwork

• To repeat a pattern through color, texture, value creating rhythm

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