UIL Art Smart 2023-2025 terms

The source of light in a painting, like the sun or a lamp; the lightness or darkness of different areas of a painting.

• Light

• Point of View

Something that stands for or suggests an idea. For example, a halo or the color blue might suggest holiness, flags might suggest patriotism, a pocket watch might suggest the passage of time.

• Symbol

• Still Life

____ a painting of ordinary people engaged in common, everyday activities.

• Genre painting

• rhythm

A style of painting practiced briefly at the beginning of the Contemporary period of art history, with shockingly bright colors and often strange or twisted forms of human figures and other objects.

• Fauvism

• Cubism

Red, yellow, and blue... Colors that cannot be made by putting other colors together.

• Primary Colors

• Neutral Colors

What is a canvas?

• A painting, treated fabric, stretched over a frame, to which paint is applied.

• paper to write on

Colors such as black, white, and beige, which have neither warm nor a cool effect in painting

• Neutral Colors

• Warm Colors

The feeling or emotion the artist wants the viewer to experience when we look at the painting.

• Mood

• Point of View

Secondary Colors

• green, purple, and orange... Colors that can be created by combining primary colors.

• Neutral Colors

The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

• Art Elements

• Perspective