Across
- 1. A person whose job it is to research and manage a collection and organize exhibitions.
- 6. A rendering, usually a drawing, of a person or thing with exaggerated or distorted features, meant to satirize the subject.
- 9. Objects, such as pots and vases, made of clay hardened by heat
- 10. A form, sign, or emblem that represents something else, often something immaterial, such as an idea or emotion.
- 13. A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint.
- 14. Touchable, or sensed by the touch.
- 15. 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).
- 17. The ability to alter a material’s shape under compressive stress, such as hammering or rolling.
- 18. 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.
- 19. A category of artistic practice having a particular form, content, or technique.
- 20. An act of placing things close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.
- 21. An image that has natural scenery as its primary focus.
- 22. An image with urban scenery as its primary focus; an urban environment.
- 26. A term generally used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature.
Down
- 2. An artist's device for spraying paint by means of compressed air.
- 3. Representing a form or figure in art that retains clear ties to the real world.
- 4. The area of an artwork that appears farthest away from the viewer; also, the area against which a figure or scene is placed.
- 5. Relating to or characterized by a concern with beauty or good taste (
- 6. The arrangement of the individual elements within a work of art so as to form a unified whole
- 7. A visual representation or design on a surface
- 8. Museum of Contemporary Art
- 11. Expressing deep personal emotion or observations; highly enthusiastic, rhapsodic.
- 12. Emphasizing ideas rather than objects.
- 16. An object, outline, or shape having sharp corners, or angles.
- 18. A 19th-century art movement
- 23. A lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
- 24. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 25. The technique and resulting work of art in which fragments of paper and other materials are arranged and glued to a supporting surface.