Art Terms

2. A process, used by printmakers, of incising or scratching lines into a wood block or metal plate from which a print was made.
3. 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.
5. An art form in which the artist's body is the medium.
7. The arrangement of the parts of a work of art.
9. Colors opposite each other on the color wheel. When to complimentary colors are mixed together you will get a neutral tone
10. One color plus the two colors that are on either side of its complement on the color wheel
13. A consistent or recurrent conceptual element, usually a figure or design.
16. In reference to perspective, eye-level is the artists' view of where the perceived line or perspective came from.
19. A portrait an artist makes using themselves as the subject.
20. From the Italian word meaning "drawing" which also implied planning and composing.

1. Art made on a grand scale, involving the creation of a man-made environment such as architecture, sculpture, light or landscape.
4. Art that uses two-dimensional geometric shapes to depict three-dimensional organic forms.
6. Art that rejects true visual representation.
8. Art where the idea, rather than the actual object is the most significant feature. Particularly popular in the 1960's.
11. Art made with the use of a computer program.
12. A principle in art where important elements and ideas are emphasized via composition.
14. the depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary folk and common activities.
15. A style of painting which depicts subject matter as it appears in actuality or ordinary visual experience, without distortion or stylization.
17. 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.
18. Painting, usually an altarpiece, made up of hinged panels.