Art Test Flashcards
What is Aesthetic?
Something that is philosophically pleasing to the eye, is beautiful, and has an emotional nature.
What is Architecture?
The art and science of designing buildings.
Who is an Artist?
Someone who creates art in any form as a profession or hobby.
What does Field refer to in design?
The area in which a design or sketch is applied.
What is Idealization?
Something represented as perfect or ideal.
What is a Landscape in art?
An art piece that represents the natural environment.
What is Medium in art?
Material used by an artist, often implying the technique of using that material.
What is Still Life?
A painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, usually including fruit and flowers.
What is Style in art?
A visual appearance of a work of art that relates to other works with similar aesthetic roots.
What is a Horizon Line?
The division between earth and sky, as seen by an observer.
What is Perspective?
The representation of three-dimensional objects and space on a flat surface.
What is Aerial Perspective?
Creates an architectural style based on the illusion of distance by muting color and blurring detail.
What is Linear Perspective?
Employs sets of parallel lines getting closer together until they merge at an imaginary vanishing point.
What is a Vanishing Point?
The point on the horizon line to which parallel lines appear to converge as they recede into the distance.
What is Hatching?
The use of parallel lines to create shading.
When lines are overlapped at angles, it is called crosshatching.
What is Pointillism?
A style of 19th century French painting in which colors are applied to canvas in small dots.
What is Wash in painting?
A technique in which a very wet paint brush is applied to a wet or dry support.
What is Colour in design?
An element that identifies natural and manufactured things as being red, orange, yellow, etc.
What are Complementary Colours?
Any two colours located opposite each other on a colour wheel.
What are Cool Colours?
The hues on one side of the colour wheel which contain blue and green.
What is Gouache?
Any opaque water-soluble paint or opaque watercolour.
What is Hard-edge art?
A style of art with crisp, clean edges and even, flat values and colours.
What is Hue?
The attribute of a colour that gives it its name.
What is Impasto?
A thick, heavy application of paint, with either brush or knife.
What is Neutral in colour?
Something without much intensity or saturation, like tans, beiges, ivories, etc.
What is Pigment?
A substance which gives colour to other materials.
What are Primary Colours?
Colours used to create other colours when mixed together, cannot be created.
What are Secondary Colours?
A colour created by mixing two primary colours.
What is Shade?
Sets of the same base colour with different darkness or light added.
What is Spectrum?
Bands of coloured light created when white light is passed through a prism.
What is Tempera?
A water-based paint whose vehicle is egg yolk.
What is a Tint?
A light value of a hue, made by adding white to the original colour.
What is Tone?
The modification of a colour through the addition of neutrals.
What is a Warm Colour?
A hue in the red to yellow range in the spectrum.
What is Watercolour?
Any paint that uses water as a medium.
What is an Element of Design?
The basic units of any visual design which form its structure.
What is Form in design?
An element that is three-dimensional and encloses volume.
What is Line in design?
An element that may be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or implied.
What is Negative Space?
The area around the objects in a painting, sometimes called the background.
What is Positive Space?
The objects in a work of art as opposed to the background.
What is Sculpture?
A three-dimensional work of art.
What is Shape in design?
An enclosed space having only two dimensions.
What is Texture in design?
The quality of a surface, both tactile and visual.
What is Value in design?
An element that relates to the lightness and darkness of a colour.
What is Calligraphy?
The art of beautiful writing or printing.
What is Contour?
A single line or lines that define the outer and inner edges of objects.
What is a Portrait?
The image of a person’s face made of any sculptural material or medium.
What is Proportion in art?
A comparative size relationship between several objects or parts of a single object.
What is Realism?
A mid-19th century style of art based on showing subject matter true to life.
What is Rendering?
The careful and complete drawing or painting of an object to make it appear realistic.
What is Scale in art?
The relative size of an object when compared to others or its environment.
What is Shading?
Graduated variations in value used to give a feeling of volume and depth.
What is a Sketch?
A quick drawing that captures the immediate feeling of action or impression.
What is Sfumato?
A slight blurring of the edges of figures and objects in a painting.
What is Sgraffito?
The process of scratching lines into the surface of a work of art.
What is Frottage?
The technique of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art.
