Art Vocabularly

4. The organization, design or placement of the individual elements in a work of art
5. The part of a scene that is behind a main figure or object in a painting, photograph, etc
7. Size relationships between parts of a whole, or between two or more objects perceived as a unit.
9. The arrangement of opposite elements and effects
11. Any large-scale wall decoration done in painting, fresco, mosaic, or other medium
15. Pertaining to the beautiful, as opposed to the useful, scientific, or emotional
16. Generally defined as art that has been produced since the second half of the twentieth century
19. The spot (point) from which the artist is looking at (viewing) the scene
20. The physical appearance of a work of art - its materials, style, and composition
21. A recurring fragment, theme or pattern that appears in a work of art

1. Art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and marks to achieve its effect
2. The lightness or darkness of something
3. The area of the picture space nearest to the viewer immediately behind the picture plane
6. space The space in a painting around the objects depicted
8. The representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface so as to produce the same impression of distance and relative size as that received by the human eye
9. A line that creates a boundary separating an area of space or object from the space around it
10. The perceived colour of an object, identified by a common name
12. The lines real or apparent by which a figure (or shape) is defined in or bounded by the plane of vision; the sum of these lines forming the contour of the figure.
13. In art, may refer to the illusion of roughness or smoothness often achieved with contrasting patterns
14. The material used to create a work of art
17. space The space in a painting occupied by the object depicted (not the spaces in-between objects)
18. An area of emphasis that demands the most attention and to which the viewer's eye is drawn