Art Vocab

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  1. 5. the material and tools used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art
  2. 6. the subject or areas of interest in an artwork
  3. 8. the way the artwork looks
  4. 9. where an artist adds black to a colour to darken it down.
  5. 10. Water-based fast-drying paint widely used by artists since the 1960s
  6. 11. Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.
  7. 12. The practice of applying paint or other media to a surface, usually with a brush.
  8. 14. The study of objects of art considered within their time period.
  9. 19. yellow, blue, and red. These are colors that can't be created by mixing of other colors.
  10. 20. Yellow, red, orange and different shades of these colors are warm colors.
  11. 22. a system of organizing values
  12. 25. thought of as the "what" in a piece of art: the topic, focus, or image.
  13. 28. where an artist adds a colour to white to create a lighter version of the colour.
  14. 29. a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner
  15. 30. the composition possesses the dimensions of length and width but does not possess depth.
  16. 31. One of the seven elements of art
  17. 34. A revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
  18. 36. the subject matter of a still life painting or sculpture is anything that does not move or is dead.
  19. 37. A room or building for the display or sale of works of art
  20. 38. the fundamental aspects of any visual design which include shape, color, space, form, line, value, and texture.
  21. 40. A system for representing objects in three-dimensional space on the two-dimensional surface of a picture.
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  1. 1. a slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil that forms a tough, coloured film on exposure to air.
  2. 2. a representation of a particular person.
  3. 3. Refers both to the medium and works of art made using the medium of watercolour – a water soluble paint with transparent properties.
  4. 4. the empty space around and between the subject(s) of an image.
  5. 7. refers to the distances or areas around, between, and within components of a piece.
  6. 8. color combinations created by the equal mixture of two primary colors. On the color wheel, secondary colors are located between primary colors.
  7. 13. the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests.
  8. 15. an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.
  9. 16. a unique form of sculptural art where the 2D shadows cast by a 3D sculpture are essential for the artistic effect.
  10. 17. how light or dark a given color or hue can be
  11. 18. the raw materials of painting and art
  12. 21. Refer to transformation and a collaboration of different art forms.
  13. 23. Any color that is calm or soothing in nature.
  14. 24. muted shades that appear to lack color but often have underlying hues that change with different lighting
  15. 26. the relative lightness or darkness of a colour
  16. 27. a particular range, quality, or use of color The designer's palette consisted mostly of earth tones
  17. 32. a longer block of time encompassing many different artists and their works of visual art, music, theater, and literature
  18. 33. Color
  19. 35. The substance the artist uses to create a piece of artwork.
  20. 39. a rough drawing or painting in which an artist notes down his preliminary ideas for a work that will eventually be realized with greater precision and detail.