Art Terms

4. Art that uses two-dimensional geometric shapes to depict three-dimensional organic forms.
8. Art where the idea, rather than the actual object is the most significant feature. Particularly popular in the 1960's.
9. A portrait an artist makes using themselves as the subject.
10. Introduced by the Cubist, the technique of creating a work of art by adhering flat articles to a flat surface creating a three-dimensional result.
11. Colors opposite each other on the color wheel. When to complimentary colors are mixed together you will get a neutral tone
12. The art technique where an artist employs different types of physical materials, such as ink and pastel or painting and collage, etc., and combines them in a single work.
13. Art made on a grand scale, involving the creation of a man-made environment such as architecture, sculpture, light or landscape.
15. Painting, usually an altarpiece, made up of hinged panels.
16. A style of painting which depicts subject matter as it appears in actuality or ordinary visual experience, without distortion or stylization.
17. A principle in art where important elements and ideas are emphasized via composition.
18. From the Italian word meaning "drawing" which also implied planning and composing.

1. An art form in which the artist's body is the medium.
2. Art that rejects true visual representation.
3. A process, used by printmakers, of incising or scratching lines into a wood block or metal plate from which a print was made.
5. A consistent or recurrent conceptual element, usually a figure or design.
6. Art made with the use of a computer program.
7. In reference to perspective, eye-level is the artists' view of where the perceived line or perspective came from.
9. One color plus the two colors that are on either side of its complement on the color wheel.
11. The arrangement of the parts of a work of art.
14. The depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary folk and common activities.