Art Terms

3. Art works made with newspaper strips that have been moistened with wallpaper paste or laundry starch.
5. Images created using small tesserae arranged and glued into a design or composition. Mosaics date back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, mostly used to decorate walls and floors.
8. Art made by untrained practitioners. Typically lively, colorful artwork in a somewhat "native" style.
10. An image that accompanies written text and aids in interpreting it.
11. The amount of light or shade in a color. The value range in a painting.
13. A method of preparing clay by kneading and squeezing it
16. Creating the illusion of depth on a picture plane with the use of lines and a vanishing point.
17. The process of baking clay in a kiln or banked fire outside (such as raku firing). This process hardens the clay and makes it very permanent.
19. A transparent or semitransparent coating of a color or stain used over oil paintings, plaster sculpture or ceramics.
20. The range of lightness or darkness in a color. A gray scale shows the range of values in photography.

1. A technique used in preparation for cementing two pieces of clay together using a series of incised lines. Also describes a process for indentation and curved line paper sculpture and folding.
2. The use of found objects or three-dimensional objects to create a work of art.
4. Art created from a realistic situation but represented unrealistically. Abstract art images are "abstracted" from real life images.
6. An arrangement of shapes adhered to a background.
7. The horizontal line that distinguishes the sky from the earth, or the ground from the wall. The eye-level of the artists view. Also, where the vanishing point lies in a perspective drawing.
9. Art where the idea, rather than the actual object is the most significant feature. Particularly popular in the 1960's.
12. A process, used by printmakers, of incising or scratching lines into a wood block or metal plate from which a print was made.
14. Paint made by mixing ground pigment with oil (usually linseed oil) as a binder.
15. A large "oven" used for firing clay work.mosaic/ Images created using small tesserae arranged and glued into a design or composition. Mosaics date back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, mostly used to decorate walls and floors.
18. A watercolor paint mixed with white pigments making it more opaque and giving it more weight and body.