Across
- 3. art presents visual forms with no specific references to anything outside themselves
- 4. is the relation between two events assumed to be happening at the same time in a frame of reference
- 6. theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational
- 9. a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.
- 11. An exaggeration or stretching of the truth to achieve a desired effect.
- 12. artistic composition of materials pasted over a surface
- 13. a belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature.
Down
- 1. Elements converge at a single point in the distance, to create more realistic settings in paintings
- 2. art that has no recognizable subject matter
- 5. new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.
- 7. Artists whose paintings were so simple in design, so brightly colored, and so loose in brushwork that an enraged critic called them "Wild Beasts"
- 8. A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes
- 10. having a form composed of one or a number of simple shapes, such as triangles, squares, or circles