Art Vocabulary 2 Worksheet

1. _______________: the way a work of art is organized and arranged

• composition

• texture

• palette

• medium

overlapping sections of a picture plane that create depth in an artwork

• hue

• forground, middlegroud, background

• line, shape, texture

• balance, contrast, emphasis

3. ________: shapes found in nature, derived from living things

• organic

• geometric

• mechanical

• abstract

4. __________: mechanical, man-made shapes, such as circles, squares, and triangles.

• abstract

• organic

• geometric

• natural

the technique of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface by having all parallel lines recede into the distance and drawn to converge at one or more vanishing points on the horizon line.

• linear perspective

• chiaroscuro

• cross-hatching

• stippling

__________: The line which separates the background from the foreground.

• horizon line

• vanishing point

• contour line

• orthogonal line

7. __________: the place where all receding lines appear to meet on the horizon line.

• intersecting point

• focal point

• apex point

• vanishing point

8. _____: technique involves the overlapping of parallel lines at different angles to create values in a drawing. The more dense the lines, the darker the value.

• cross hatching

• stippling

• blending

• scribbling

9. _____________: technique which uses patterns of dots to create values in a drawing

• stippling

• hatching

• blending

• cross-contour

10. ____: lines with little variation that describe flat shapes, like a silhouette

• contour

• outline

• gesture

• crosshatch