Art Smart Vocab

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

Subjects that were not realistic.
Subjects:
- color
- line
- composition or the painted surface rather than the real world

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

Work that uses symbols, often human forms, to stand for ideas or to convey messages.

Question 3

Art Elements

Answer 3

Artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

• color
• line
• form
• texture
• value
• space
• shape

Question 4

Background

Answer 4

that part of a painting that seems farthest away from the viewer.

Question 5

Baroque

Answer 5

Period of art history, approximately 1600-1750.

• scientific discoveries by Galileo and Issac Newton
• growth of the Protestant religion
• ordinary citizens becoming patrons of the art
• particularly in the Netherlands

Question 6

Canvas

Answer 6

1.) a painting
2.) treated fabric, stretched over a frame, to which paint is applied

Question 7

Cityscape

Answer 7

a type of landscape painting that features scenes of streets, buildings, and other city features.

Question 8

Complementary Colors

Answer 8

Pairs of colors that are farthest away from each other on the color wheel, and are most different from each other.
- Red and Green
- Orange and Blue
- Purple and Yellow

Question 9

Composition

Answer 9

How individual are elements, like lights, color, lines, and shapes work with each other and as a whole to form a complete painting.

Question 10

Contemporary

Answer 10

Period of art history, approximately 1900-the present.

• Fauvism
• Cubism
• Many other styles of Semi-Abstract and Abstract art

Question 11

Contrast

Answer 11

A comparison that draws attention to the different between things.

• Color: warm and cool or bright and dull
• Light: light areas of canvas and dark areas
• Lines: straight and curved or vertical and diagonal
• Textures: hard and soft or rough an smooth
• Sometimes even subject: an old man and a baby

Question 12

Cool Colors

Answer 12

blue, green, lavender, purple, and others, that we associate with cool or cold temperatures

Question 13

Cubism

Answer 13

Style of painting developed in France.
Artist took familiar objects from everyday life, broke them up into geometric figures like cubes and triangles, then put them back together, to see familiar objects in unfamiliar ways.

Question 14

Fauvism

Answer 14

Style of painting practice with shockingly bright colors and often strange or twisted forms of human figures and other objects.

Question 15

Foreground

Answer 15

That part of a painting that seems closest to the viewer.

Question 16

Form

Answer 16

3D shape of an object, shown in paintings by using light and dark paints or by gradual shading of color.

Question 17

Genre Painting

Answer 17

Painting of ordinary people engaged in common, everyday activities.

Question 18

History and Legend Painting

Answer 18

Painting that tells a story about important people or important events.

Question 19

Impressionism

Answer 19

Style of painting developed in France late.

Artists wanted to create impressions of light and color that, when seen as a whole, would form pictures in viewers’ minds.

Artists placed different colors side-by-side very close together on the canvas, letting viewers’ eyes blend the colors together.

Question 20

Landscape

Answer 20

1.) a painting of an outdoor view that features large areas of natural scenery
2.) the outdoor view itself.

Question 21

Light

Answer 21

1.) the source of light in a painting, like a sun or a lamp
2.) the light or darkness of different areas of a painting.

Question 22

Lines

Answer 22

1.) lines drawn by an artist to mark the edges of something, or outline it
2.) lines formed where objects touch or overlap, so that different colors or shapes come together, like the line our eyes see at the horizon where the earth and the sky meet.

Question 23

Modern

Answer 23

Period of art history, approximately 1750-1900. Historical events included democratic revolutions in France and the American colonies and Industrial Revolution in science and technology. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, and Pointillism were styles that developed during the Modern.

Question 24

Mood

Answer 24

The feelings or emotions an artist wants viewers to experience when we look at a painting.

Question 25

Neoclassicsm

Answer 25

A style of painting, developed during the Modern period of art history, which imitated the style of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture. Usually have grand themes from history and legend as subject matter.

Question 26

Neutral Colors

Answer 26

Colors such as black, white, tan, and beige, which have neither a warm nor a cool effect in painting.

Question 27

Perspective

Answer 27

Illusion of depth of distance. Artist use many different elements and techniques to make pictures on a flat surface seem to have space and distance.

Question 28

Point of View

Answer 28

The position from which the viewer sees objects in a painting.

Question 29

Pointillism

Answer 29

A style of painting that developed late in the Modern period picture is composed of tiny dots, or points, of color placed very close to one another on the canvas.

Question 30

Portrait

Answer 30

A painting of a person, usually one formally posed and looking outward from the painting. Paintings that feature more than one person are called group portraits.

Question 31

Primary Colors

Answer 31

Red, yellow, and blue, colors that cannot be made by putting other colors together.

Question 32

Renaissance

Answer 32

A period of art history, approximately 1400-1600. Studied the styles of ancient Greece and Rome. Catholic Church continued to be an important patron of the Arts, rise of a wealthy middle class led to new interest in nonreligious paintings.

Question 33

Rhythm

Answer 33

Something that repeats, and creates a kind of pattern. Artists use elements like colors, lines, and shapes to create rhythms that help create the mood of a painting, or that move our eyes to different parts of a painting.

Question 34

Rococo

Answer 34

Decorative style of painting that developed in France, subjects of Rococo paintings usually are wealthy people, often engaged in activities of recreation or amusement. Rococo style emphasizes curved lines usually light colors, especially white, gold, silver, rose-pink, and sky-blue.

Question 35

Romanticism

Answer 35

Style of painting that developed during the Modern period. Not all Romantic artist painted alike but they all believed that paintings should express emotions about man in the modern world. They valued truth, sincerity in art above, harmony, and conventional beauty.

Question 36

Seascape

Answer 36

A type of landscape painting that features large expanses of water, usually the ocean or the sea, but occasionally a large lake.

Question 37

Secondary Colors

Answer 37

Green, Purple, Orange, Colors can be created by combining Primary Colors.

Question 38

Still Life

Answer 38

A painting of objects that do not move. Most, but not all, are close-up views of carefully arranged groups of objects, shown in an indoor setting, often on a table top.

Question 39

Symbol

Answer 39

Something that stands for or suggest an idea.

Question 40

Texture

Answer 40

The way an object feels on its surface when you touch it. Textures may be hard or soft, rough or smooth.

Question 41

Warm Colors

Answer 41

Colors such as red, yellow, orange, and others, that we associate with warm temperatures, like the orange glow of a sunset or the bright yellow flames of a fire.