WorksheetsFine Art Vocabulary
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
