Across
- 2. Not see through.
- 3. An art movement that takes traditional subjects—nudes, landscapes, and still lifes—were reinvented as increasingly fragmented composition
- 5. An artist's device for spraying paint by means of compressed air.
- 8. Emphasizing ideas rather than objects.
- 9. A work of art made up of two parts, usually hinged together\
- 11. Objects, such as pots and vases, made of clay hardened by heat
- 12. An image that has natural scenery as its primary focus.
- 14. A person who draws plans or designs, often of structures to be built; a person who draws skillfully, especially an artist.
- 16. A category of artistic practice having a particular form, content, or technique.
- 18. Two or more things having a common center.
- 19. An object, outline, or shape having sharp corners, or angles.
- 20. A 19th-century art movement
- 23. Any public-facing side of a building, often featuring decorative finishes.
- 24. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 25. A visual representation or design on a surface
- 27. The area of an artwork that appears farthest away from the viewer; also, the area against which a figure or scene is placed.
- 29. Expressing deep personal emotion or observations; highly enthusiastic, rhapsodic.
- 30. A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint.
- 32. An act of placing things close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.
- 36. A representation of a particular individual.
- 37. An opaque watercolor paint; a painting produced with such paint.
- 39. A rendering, usually a drawing, of a person or thing with exaggerated or distorted features, meant to satirize the subject.
- 42. In painting a color plus white.
- 44. The area of an image—usually a photograph, drawing, or painting—that appears closest to the viewer.
- 45. In painting, a color plus black.
- 46. The lightness or darkness of a color. In painting, a color plus gray.
- 49. A work of art made up of three parts, usually hinged together
- 51. The technique and resulting work of art in which fragments of paper and other materials are arranged and glued to a supporting surface.
Down
- 1. The materials used to create a work of art, and the categorization of art based on the materials used (for example, painting [or more specifically, watercolor], drawing, sculpture).
- 3. An image with urban scenery as its primary focus; an urban environment.
- 4. The ability to alter a material’s shape under compressive stress, such as hammering or rolling.
- 6. A paint composed of pigment mixed into water; a work of art made with this paint.
- 7. Touchable, or sensed by the touch.
- 8. The arrangement of the individual elements within a work of art so as to form a unified whole
- 10. A form, sign, or emblem that represents something else, often something immaterial, such as an idea or emotion.
- 13. Cotton or linen woven cloth used as a surface for painting.
- 15. A type of paint that is water based, not oil based.
- 17. An artistic movement that was interested in how the irrational, unconscious mind could move beyond the constraints of the rational world.
- 18. Colors located opposite one another on the color wheel.
- 21. Having a single color. A work of art rendered in only one color.
- 22. A large painting applied to a wall or ceiling, especially in a public space.
- 26. A form of art, developed in the late 1950s, which involves the creation of an enveloping aesthetic or sensory experience in a particular environment, often inviting active engagement or immersion by the spectator.
- 28. A term generally used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature.
- 31. Representing a form or figure in art that retains clear ties to the real world.
- 33. 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.
- 34. The position from which something is viewed or observed.
- 35. A substance, usually finely powdered, that produces the color of any medium. When mixed with oil, water, or another fluid, it becomes paint.
- 38. A person whose job it is to research and manage a collection and organize exhibitions.
- 40. Relating to or characterized by a concern with beauty or good taste (
- 41. Characterized by ugly, repulsive or distortion of appearance
- 43. Museum of Contemporary Art
- 47. The range of colors used by an artist in making a work of art;
- 48. The shape or structure of an object.
- 50. A soft and delicate shade of a color; a drawing medium of dried paste manufactured in crayon form made of ground pigments and a water-based binder; a picture or sketch drawn with this type of crayon.