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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Claude Monet | French male; Impressionist--painting changes of light and color with blurry brushstrokes; oil painting; scenes from nature |
| Faith Ringgold | African-American female; modern textile artist--quilts with painted stories of life on them; scenes from her life growing up |
| Andy Warhol | American male; Pop Art--repeated images of popular everyday objects; graphic artist; silk screen printer |
| Art Museums | The purpose of art museums is to preserve original artwork, to display artwork for public enjoyment and to educate the public. |
| Culture | We learn about it peoples' customs, beliefs, and traditions when we study the art of a specific culture. |
| Aesthetics | Is refering to the way an artwork makes you feel. |
| Artistic Style | Is the manner, method or process an artist uses to express their ideas and personality in an artwork. |
| Portfolio | Is used to store a collection of artworks. |
| Portrait | An artwork that shows a person and usually is of the person's face. |
| Landscape | An artwork that has natural scenery and land as its main focus. |
| Realistic | Creating an artwork that looks like it does in real life. |
| Abstract | Creating an artwork that simplifies, modifies or exagerates objects or images. |
| Color Wheel | A tool artists use to help identify colors, to mix colors and to recognize color families. |
| Medium/Media (plural) | The things that artists make artwork out of, such as paint, clay, color pencils. These materials show up in the artwork and can be identified. |
| Art Tools | These are the tools artists use to make artwork. They include things like scissors, paint brushes, hole punches and easels. |
| Art Elements | The building blocks of art. These include line, shape, form, color, value, space and texture. |
| Line | One of the art elements. The path of a dot. Types of lines include straight, curved, zigzag, jagged, dotted, dashed, vertical, horizontal, diagonal and parallel. |
| Shapes | One of the art elements. When a line comes together to enclose an area, it makes a shape. These are two-dimensional--measuring in length and width. |
| Organic Shapes | Shapes (2-dimensional) that are found in nature, such as leaves, plants, animals, fish. |
| Geometric Shapes | Shapes (2-dimensional) that we study about in math, such as circles, squares, rectangles, pentagons, hexagons. |
| Forms | Three-dimensional objects that have heighth, length and width; such as spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes, rectangular prisms and pyramids. |
| Sculpture | Three-dimensional artwork, such as pottery (clay that is hardened in a kiln), marble or bronze. |
| Hue | Another word for color. |
| Primary Colors | The first colors that are used to mix other colors and that cannot be created. Red, yellow and blue. |
| Secondary Colors | The second group of colors that are made by mixing two primary colors together. Purple, orange and green. |
| Warm Colors | Colors that are associated with the sun or fire. These color make our picture look warm, and makes it look exciting or angry. Red, yellow and orange. |
| Cool Colors | Colors that are associated with the sky, air, water or grass. These colors makes our picture look cool in temperature and makes it look calm. Blue, green and purple. |
| Tertiary Colors | These colors are made by mixing a primary and secondary together that are next to each other on the color wheel. Red-orange, yellow-orange, blue-green, yellow-green, red-violet and blue-violet. |
| Complementary Colors | Two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel. Yellow and purple. Red and green. Blue and orange. |
| Tint | A color plus white. |
| Shade | A color plus black. |
| Value | The lightness or darkness of a color. |
| Texture | The way and object feels when you touch it. In artwork, texture can be seen or felt. |
| Positive Space | The objects in an artwork. |
| Negative Space | The area around the objects in the artwork. "Empty Space" |
| Art Principles | The rules of art. These include rhythm, variety, unity, focal point, contrast, balance, emphasis, and proportion. |
| Focal Point | The part of the artwork that draws the eye to it. It is often the lightest or brightest part of the artwork. |
| Symmetrical Balance | If you can draw a line down the middle of the artwork, each side is the same--a mirror image. |
| Asymmetrical Balance | Both sides of an artwork are not the same. |
| Rhythm | A repetition or use of elements that cause the eye to travel over an artwork. It causes a sense of movement. |
| Pattern | The repetition of shapes, lines, colors and/or textures in a planned way. |
| Seascape | An artwork that focuses on the sea, ocean or beach. |
| Still Life | An artwork of objects--usually set on a table so the artist can take the time to draw them. |
| Foreground | The area at the front of the picture--objects closest to the viewer. |
| Middleground | The area at the middle of the picture--objects are between the foreground and the background. |
| Vertical Line | A line that travels up and down. |
| Horizontal Line | A line that travels right to left. Comes from "horizon" which is the line created where the land meets the sky. |
| Printing | Creating art by pressing ink or paint onto paper. Can make multiple copies of the same image. |
| Background | The area at the back of an artwork--objects that are furtherest from the viewer. |
| Neutral Colors | Colors that are not found in the color wheel, such as black, gray, white, brown and tan. |
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