Vocabulary Flashcards
the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Art
the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
Perception
a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art.
Aesthetics
an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
Artifact
a way of painting, writing, composing, building, etc., characteristic of a particular period, place, person, or movement.
Style
the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.
Color
a long, narrow mark or band.
Line
a work of music, literature, or art.
Composition
the external form or appearance characteristic of someone or something; the outline of an area or figure.
Shape
the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
Texture
the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance.
Medium
the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.
Photography
the visible shape or configuration of something.
Form
the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible.
Light
a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
Shadows
a color or shade.
Hue
the relative degree of lightness or darkness of a particular color.
Value
the strength or sharpness of a color due especially to its degree of freedom from admixture with its complementary color.
Intensity
any of the main portions in a painting or drawing that each have some unity in color, lighting, or some other quality.
Mass
the relative extent of something; a thing’s overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is.
Size
the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodic stress.
Rhythm
the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect.
Harmony
a change or difference in condition, amount, or level, typically with certain limits.
Variation
harmony of design and proportion.
Balance
dimensions; size.
Proportion
correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing.
Symmetry
lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
Asymmetry
A principle of art, unity occurs when all of the elements of a piece combine to make a balanced, harmonious, complete whole. Unity is another of those hard-to-describe art terms but, when it’s present, your eye and brain are pleased to see it.
Unity
the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
Chiaroscuro
be of an equal or similar nature or quality.
Compare
the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.
Contrast
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Juxtaposition
the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.
Sculpture
Sculpture in the Round. a type of sculpture in which the figures are presented in complete three-dimensional form and are not attached to a flat background (unlike relief). The principal types of sculpture in the round are statues, busts, and sculptural groups.
Full round sculpture
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise.
Relief sculpture
A number of art forms can be considered ephemeral because of their temporary nature. Early land art and all sand sculptures, ice sculptures and chalk drawings on footpaths are examples of ephemeral art. G. Augustine Lynas and Duthain Dealbh create ephemeral sculptures.
Ephemeral art
Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Pointillism
By Vangie Beal Adjacent colors, also called analogous colors refers to the use of compatible color combinations that blend well together and are near each other on the color wheel (e.g. yellow, to yellow orange, to orange). These colors are more subdued and are not bright vivid colors.
Adjacent
Monochromatic color schemes are derived from a single base hue and extended using its shades, tones and tints. Tints are achieved by adding white and shades and tones are achieved by adding a darker color, grey or black.
Monochromatic color scheme
A color scheme possessing or exhibiting two colors. The colors do not have to conform to a structured relationship such as a complimentary color scheme. A diadic or diad color scheme uses two colors that are separated by one color on the color wheel.
Dichromatic color scheme
A trichromatic color scheme consists of three colors. The term is often used to refer to the red, green, and blue color receptors in human vision.
Trichromatic color scheme
The addition of light blue creates an “Accented Analogous” color scheme. Color schemes can contain different “Monochromatic” shades of a single color; for example, a color scheme that mixes different shades of green, ranging from very light (white), to very neutral (gray), to very dark (black).
nuetral and accented neutral color scheme
