The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

Background is...

What is a canvas?

Complementary colors are...

_________ is how individual elements, like light, color, lines, and shape, work with each other and as a whole to form a complete painting. Light and shade make us see three dimensional images instead of just two dimensions. Color helps set the mood, and suggests relationship between the parts of a painting. Lines and shape organize space and create structure.

Contrast- A comparison that draws attention to the differences between things. Artists use many different elements to create contrast.

cool colors- such as blue, green, lavender, purple and others that we associate with cool or cold temperatures.

A style of painting developed in France early in the Contemporary period of art history. Artists took familiar objects from everyday life, broke them up into geometric figures like cubes and triangles, then put them back together, forcing viewers to see familiar objects in unfamiliar ways.

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.

the part of a painting that seems closest to the viewer.

The three dimensional shape of an object, shown traditionally in painting through variations of light and dark paints or by gradual shading of color.

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

A style of painting developed in France late in the Modern period of art history, by artists who wanted to create impressions of light and color that, when seen as a whole, would form pictures in viewers minds.

A painting of an outdoor view that features large areas of natural scenery. The outdoor view itself.

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

Lines drawn by an artist to mark the edge of something, or outline it, like the lines that form the outer edge of a building. Lines formed where objects touch or overlap, so that different colors touch or overlap, so that different colors or shapes come together, like the lines our eyes see at the horizon where the earth and sky meet.

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

A style of painting, developed during the Modern period of art history, which imitated the style of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture. Neoclassicism paintings usually have grand themes from history and legend as subject matter. They generally include formal, balanced compositions, use strongly drawn lines to define forms and have smooth, polished canvases.

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

The illusion of depth or distance. Artists use many different elements and techniques to make pictures on a flat service seem to have space and distance.

The position from which the viewer sees objects in a painting. Looking at the object on a table while sitting in a chair drawn up to the table is one point of view. Looking at those same objects while standing across the room is another point of view.

A painting of a person, usually one formally posed and looking outward from the painting. Paintings that feature more than one person are called group portraits.

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

Something that repeats, and creates a kind of pattern. Artists use elements like color, lines and shape to create rhythms that help create the mood of a painting, or that move our eyes to different parts of a painting.

Secondary Colors

A painting with objects that do not move. Most, but not all, still life pictures are close up views of carefully arranged groups of objects, shown in an indoor setting, often on a tabletop.

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.

The way an object feels on its surface when you touch it. Textures may be hard or soft, rough or smooth. Paintings themselves have smooth or rough textures, depending on how the artist applies the paint.

Colors such as red, yellow, orange and others that we associate with warm temperatures, like the orange glow of a sunset or the bright yellow flames of a fire.