1st 9 Weeks Exam Art Words

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Across
  1. 5. colors that contrast with one another. Complementary colors are opposite one another on the color wheel.
  2. 12. an individual feature, or a small or minor part of something.
  3. 14. a portable container used to hold and organize artworks, especially drawings and paintings
  4. 17. art showing scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner
  5. 18. a design that includes swirling and interlocking geometric and organic shapes and lines, which often create a pattern.
  6. 20. a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewers eye.
  7. 22. an artists individual way of expressing his or her ideas. Also, a technique used by a group of artists in a particular time or culture.
  8. 23. a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
  9. 26. a plan for combining colors in a work of art.
  10. 27. The basic parts and symbols of an artwork. The elements of art are line, color, value, shape, texture, form and space.
  11. 30. Guidelines that artists use to organize the elements of art in a composition. They are unity, variety, emphasis, balance, proportion, pattern, and rhythm.
  12. 31. a technique that alters the proportions of compositions. The three categories are monumental, miniature and exaggerated.
  13. 32. the space outside of a structure or building; space that is in the open or leading to the open.
Down
  1. 1. Used to describe art that creates the illusion of a real object or scene in such a realistic way that it seems alive.
  2. 2. a person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites
  3. 3. a round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its center.
  4. 4. an artwork showing an arrangement of objects that cannot move on their own, such as fruit, foods, bottles, books or cut flowers.
  5. 6. water- soluble paints, such as tempera, watercolor or acrylic, that use different binders and have different qualities.
  6. 7. a natural dye extracted from the leaves of certain plants
  7. 8. art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product.
  8. 9. copy exact in all details. A copy that is not the original; something that has been copied.
  9. 10. creative skill or ability.
  10. 11. a term that refers to any artistic object or production.
  11. 13. a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940’s and 1950’s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act.
  12. 15. a compact intersection of interlaced material, such as cord, ribbon, or rope.
  13. 16. Artworks that are of smaller-than-life proportions.
  14. 19. a person who makes pictures or designs by printing them from specially prepared plates or blocks
  15. 21. a genre of landscape painting that used brushstrokes and color to create an emotional atmosphere.
  16. 24. an artist that bears a false or fictitious name.
  17. 25. strong or pronounced; prominent.
  18. 28. a decorative design or pattern
  19. 29. A two-dimensional area created by visually connecting actual or implied lines.