Across
- 5. colors that contrast with one another. Complementary colors are opposite one another on the color wheel.
- 12. an individual feature, or a small or minor part of something.
- 14. a portable container used to hold and organize artworks, especially drawings and paintings
- 17. art showing scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner
- 18. a design that includes swirling and interlocking geometric and organic shapes and lines, which often create a pattern.
- 20. a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewers eye.
- 22. an artists individual way of expressing his or her ideas. Also, a technique used by a group of artists in a particular time or culture.
- 23. a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
- 26. a plan for combining colors in a work of art.
- 27. The basic parts and symbols of an artwork. The elements of art are line, color, value, shape, texture, form and space.
- 30. Guidelines that artists use to organize the elements of art in a composition. They are unity, variety, emphasis, balance, proportion, pattern, and rhythm.
- 31. a technique that alters the proportions of compositions. The three categories are monumental, miniature and exaggerated.
- 32. the space outside of a structure or building; space that is in the open or leading to the open.
Down
- 1. Used to describe art that creates the illusion of a real object or scene in such a realistic way that it seems alive.
- 2. a person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites
- 3. a round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its center.
- 4. an artwork showing an arrangement of objects that cannot move on their own, such as fruit, foods, bottles, books or cut flowers.
- 6. water- soluble paints, such as tempera, watercolor or acrylic, that use different binders and have different qualities.
- 7. a natural dye extracted from the leaves of certain plants
- 8. art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product.
- 9. copy exact in all details. A copy that is not the original; something that has been copied.
- 10. creative skill or ability.
- 11. a term that refers to any artistic object or production.
- 13. a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940’s and 1950’s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act.
- 15. a compact intersection of interlaced material, such as cord, ribbon, or rope.
- 16. Artworks that are of smaller-than-life proportions.
- 19. a person who makes pictures or designs by printing them from specially prepared plates or blocks
- 21. a genre of landscape painting that used brushstrokes and color to create an emotional atmosphere.
- 24. an artist that bears a false or fictitious name.
- 25. strong or pronounced; prominent.
- 28. a decorative design or pattern
- 29. A two-dimensional area created by visually connecting actual or implied lines.