ART TERMS
Across
- 3. The way an artist uses a paintbrush to create textures, strokes, and patterns.
- 6. Combining various materials to create a new composition.
- 10. A mid-20th century art style emphasizing feelings and emotions through bold brushstrokes, splatters, and large paintings.
- 12. A quick-drying and durable paint popular in the Contemporary period.
- 15. Colors associated with cool temperatures, like blue and green.
- 16. A historical art period characterized by formal paintings with detailed scenery, energy, and contrast.
Down
- 1. An art period from the 1950s to the present, marked by abstract art and influenced by historical events.
- 2. The ingredients like light, color, lines, and shapes used to create a painting.
- 4. A comparison highlighting differences, using elements like color, light, lines, and textures.
- 5. The part of a painting farthest from the viewer, often contrasting with the foreground.
- 7. Pairs of colors located at opposite ends of the color wheel, creating maximum contrast.
- 8. A style of art from the Contemporary period where artists focus on shapes, colors, and forms to convey emotions and ideas, challenging traditional representation.
- 9. A painting technique using strong light and shadow contrasts for a dramatic effect.
- 11. How art elements work together to form a complete painting.
- 13. A painting style breaking up objects into geometric figures and reassembling them.
- 14. (1) A painting; (2) Treated fabric stretched over a frame for painting.