Art Vocab
Across
- 1. not representing or imitating external reality
- 3. an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
- 5. artistic movement that represents the world accurately
- 7. relative darkness or lightness of a color
- 9. shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
- 11. a representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect
- 12. balance among the parts of something
- 18. a painting not representing or imitating external reality
- 20. artistic movement expressing ideas through the use of images
- 21. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- 22. visual communication by a skillful combination of text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, books, etc.
- 23. a practical method or art applied to some particular task
- 25. pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
- 26. form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a mold
- 28. appearance as determined by distance from the viewer
- 29. a painting that is applied to a wall surface
- 30. water-soluble pigment
- 33. a three-dimensional work of art
- 34. a style in which characters and events are symbolic
- 35. the part of a scene behind objects in the front
Down
- 2. either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)
- 4. artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens
- 6. an artistic movement using fantastic and incongruent mages
- 8. sculpture produced by molding
- 10. any likeness of a person, in any medium
- 13. a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors
- 14. the part of a scene that is near the viewer
- 15. the concentration of attention or energy on something
- 16. handwritten book or document
- 17. a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
- 19. harmonious arrangement or relation of parts within a whole
- 20. a mode of expression typical of a person, group, or period
- 24. an artistic movement featuring surfaces of geometric planes
- 27. design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
- 28. range of color characteristic of a painting, artist, etc.
- 31. a paste-up of pieces to form an artistic image
- 32. used especially by artists