Art Terminology

3. The arrangement of the objects and the way the art elements are structured to achieve the principles in the format.
8. Relating to, or resulting from, movement.
9. Refers to both a colour and a shade of a colour.
13. The degree of lightness or darkness in a colour
14. An object serving as a reminder of death and mortality.
15. Using an object or image, usually without permission, and placing it in a new context that changes its meaning.
18. Distorting objects to create an illusion of depth and to make them look like they are coming towards the audience.
19. Art representing objects from the observed world in such a way that they can easily be recognised.
21. Art style or movement of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where artists used strong contrasts, emotion, movement, exaggeration and theatrical effects.
22. How materials are manipulated through the use of tools and equipment.

1. The activities, procedures, steps taken, and investigations artists do throughout the making of artworks.
2. Lacking hue/colour, such as white, grey or black
4. Refers to ‘vulgar’ art, or art with no artistic merit such as commercial ornaments, tourist souvenirs.
5. When certain areas throughout an artwork are connected by some manner of visual emphasis that leads the eye of the audience in a particular direction.
6. A painting on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling.
7. The thing that the audience looks at first or that holds their interest.
10. Italian for ‘light-dark’; refers to the contrast of light and dark to make forms lookthree-dimensional.
11. Art element that can be smooth or rough.
12. Shapes that are precise and regular.
16. The use of images and symbols to represent ideas or the particular images and symbols used in this way by a religious or political group.
17. A method of printing using a surface with lines cut into it.
20. Lasting for a very short time; an artwork that is temporary and lasts at the site for a short period of time.