Art Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. Cotton or linen woven cloth used as a surface for painting.
- 6. An image that has natural scenery as its primary focus.
- 10. The area of an image—usually a photograph, drawing, or painting—that appears closest to the viewer.
- 12. A soft and delicate shade of a color; a type of crayon
- 15. Objects, such as pots and vases, made of clay hardened by heat
- 16. In painting a color plus white.
- 18. Emphasizing ideas rather than objects.
- 19. See through
- 22. To prepare a surface for painting by covering it with primer, or an undercoat.
- 23. A picture representing a person
- 25. Having a single color. A work of art rendered in only one color.
- 30. The area of an artwork that appears farthest away from the viewer; also, the area against which a figure or scene is placed.
- 32. A substance, usually finely powdered color that mixed with oil, water, or another fluid, it becomes paint.
- 34. A large painting applied to a wall or ceiling, especially in a public space.
- 35. The range of colors used by an artist in making a work of art;
- 36. A type of paint that is water based, not oil based.
- 37. The shape or structure of an object.
- 38. The lightness or darkness of a color. In painting, a color plus gray.
Down
- 1. Acronym for Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 2. Acronym for Museum of Contemporary Art
- 3. A form, sign, or emblem that represents something else, often something immaterial, such as an idea or emotion.
- 5. The position from which something is viewed or observed.
- 7. Colors located opposite one another on the color wheel.
- 8. In art, a technique used to depict volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface, as in a painted scene that appears to extend into the distance.
- 9. In painting, a color plus black.
- 11. An image with urban scenery as its primary focus
- 13. A 3D work of art
- 14. Representing a form or figure in art that retains clear ties to the real world.
- 17. A paint made with a water base; a work of art made with this paint.
- 19. Touchable, or sensed by the touch.
- 20. An artist's device for spraying paint by means of compressed air.
- 21. Any public-facing side of a building
- 24. arrangement of the individual elements within a work of art so as to form a unified whole
- 26. The materials used to create a work of art, and the categorization of art based on the materials
- 27. A term generally used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature.
- 28. An object, outline, or shape having sharp corners, or angles.
- 29. A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint.
- 31. Not see through.
- 33. A category of art having a particular form, content, or technique.