VOCABULARY

TERM
Artwork!

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Folk artists

Artists

Action painting

Symbol

Definition
the end result of
what the artist has
created based on
their ideas and
creativity
to be acquainted
based on senses of a
visual representation
individuals who had
no previous training
yet are skilled like
those of various
artists
unique people who
utilize their thought
process to creative
shapes
the art of drizzling
paint from a canvas
that is extended from
the ground
a known illustration
of what something
actually means

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Elements of art

the fundamentals of
signs in the art world
which are line, shape
and form, space,
color, value, and
texture

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What is Art?
Why do artist
create? How
and where and
do they get

The image viewers

can easily identify in
a work of art

Art that has no

recognizable subject
matter

The way the

principles of art are
used to organize the
elements of art
The message the
work communicates

Credit line

A list of important
facts about a work of
art

Medium

The material used to

make art

Gertrude Stein

A very well-known
Art collector

Grant wood

Wood's best known

work is his 1930
painting American
Gothic, which is also
one of the most
famous paintings in
American art

Art Criticism-Critique An organized

approach for
studying a work of
art

Principals of Art

The rules that govern

how artists organize
the elements of art

Aesthetics

A Branch of
philosophy
concerned with the
nature and value of
art
Your personal
interaction with a
work of art

AESTHETICS
EXPERIENCE

Theories of Art

Have a theory on our

concept of art
without a definition

Literalism

Literalism offered an
experience of
"theatricality" or
"presence" rather
than "present-ness"
(a condition that
required continual
renewal)

Expressionism

Its typical trait is to

present the world
solely from a
subjective
perspective,
distorting it radically
for emotional effect
in order to evoke
moods or ideas

Formalism

Refers to art that

focuses on things
being realistically
represented. A
theory of art that
judge's artwork
based on how real it
looks.

Imitationalism

Refers to art that

focuses on things
being realistically
represented. A
theory of art that
judge's artwork
based on how real it
looks.

Emotionalism

Requires that a work

of art must arouse a
response of feelings,
moods, or emotions
in the viewer.

Expressive qualities

Qualities that convey

ideas and moods.

Cubism

Composed of mostly
cubes and requires
other shapes as well.

Popart

A type of art
that is revolved
around
advertisement.

Layer Mask

Modifying art to
a whole other
state.

Cultural
Anthropology

Genealogy

Ofrenda

A branch of
anthropology
focused on the
study of cultural
variation of
humans and is
contrast to social
anthropology.
The study of
families and the
tracing of their
lineages and their
history.
A collection of
objects placed on
a ritual alter
traditionally
during Dia De Los

Muertos.

Dia De Los
Muertos

Ancestry

A holiday in
Mexico which
celebrates the
dead. Starting
from October 31
and ending on
November 2.
The origin of
something or
someone.

Cultural Artifacts

Anything made by
humans used in
anthropology.

Diorama

A model
representing a
scene in 3-D.

Ethnocentricity

Huichols

Anti-Aliasing

Your own belief

that you think
your own cultural
or ethnic group is
superior.

The Huichol or
Wixritari
(Huichol pronunciat
ion: /wiraitai/) are
Native Mexicans,
living in the Sierra
Madre Occidental
range in the
Mexican states of
Nayarit, Jalisco,
Zacatecas, and
Durango.
Smoothing the
jagged appearance
of diagonal lines in a
bitmapped image.
The pixels that
surround the edges
of the line are
changed to varying
shades of gray or
color in order to
blend the sharp
edge into the

background.

Alfa channel

Composite_(.psd)

In graphics, a
portion of each
pixel's data that is
reserved for
transparency
information. 32-bit
graphics systems
contain four
channels -- three 8bit channels for red,
green, and blue
(RGB) and one 8-bit
alpha channel. The
alpha channel is
really a mask-- it
specifies how the
pixel's colors should
be merged with
another pixel when
the two are overlaid,
one on top of the
other.
Made up of distinct
parts as a
capitalized relating
to or being a
modification of the
Corinthian order
combining angular

Cai-quo-giang

Ai Wei Wei

Media-Medium

Ionic volutes with

the acanthus-circled
bell of the
Corinthian. b : of or
relating to a very
large family
Cai Guo-Qiang is a
Chinese
contemporary artist
living and working in
New York City
Ai Weiwei is a
Chinese
Contemporary artist
and activist. Ai
collaborated with
Swiss architects
Herzog & de Meuron
as the artistic
consultant on the
Beijing National
Stadium for the
2008 Olympics
A medium refers to
the materials that
are used to create a
work of art. The
plural of medium is
media. Some of the
most common
media are oil paints
(paints that use oil
to hold pigments
together), tempera

Still-Life

Line Drawing

(pigments held
together with egg
yolk), marble (soft,
white stone), and
bronze (a metal
used to cast
sculptures).
A still life (plural still
lives) is a work of
art depicting mostly
inanimate subject
matter, typically
commonplace
objects which may
be either natural
(food, flowers, dead
animals, plants,
rocks, or shells) or
man-made (drinking
glasses, books,
vases, jewelry,
coins, pipes, and so
on)
A drawing done
using only narrow
lines, the variation
of which, in width
and density,
produce such effects
as tone and
shading.

Shading

Printing/Reproductio
n

Harlem Renaissance

Shading refers to
depicting depth
perception in 3D
models or
illustrations by
varying levels of
darkness. Example
of flat shading vs.
Phong shading
interpolation. Phong
shading is a more
realistic shading
technique,
developed by Bui
Tuong Phong in
1973
Produce (books,
newspapers,
magazines, etc.),
especially in large
quantities, by a
mechanical process
involving the
transfer of text,
images, or designs
to paper.
The Harlem
Renaissance was
the name given to
the cultural, social,
and artistic
explosion that took
place in Harlem
between the end of

Sargent Johnson

Winslow Homer

World War I and the

middle of the 1930s.
During this period
Harlem was a
cultural center,
drawing black
writers, artists,
musicians,
photographers,
poets, and scholars.
Sargent Claude
Johnson was one of
the first AfricanAmerican artists
working in California
to achieve a
national reputation.
He was known for
Abstract Figurative
and Early Modern
styles
Winslow Homer was
an American
landscape painter
and printmaker,
best known for his
marine subjects. He
is considered one of
the foremost
painters in 19thcentury America
and a preeminent
figure in American
art

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is an
American painter
and printmaker.

Di Rosa Gallery

Over 200 acres of

indoor & outdoor
gallery space
showcasing Bay
Area art in a variety
of mediums.
A virtual museum is
a digital entity that
draws on the
characteristics of a
museum, in order to
complement,
enhance, or
augment the
museum experience
through
personalization,
interactivity and
richness of content
KQEDs own virtual
gallery show

Virtual Gallery

Gallery CrawlKQEDs Virtual

Gallery Show

Spark-Art Production Spark Art Studio is

Showcase Program an art enrichment
program
conveniently located
in Kettering, OH.

Galleries

SPARK offers
developmentally
appropriate art
classes for children
of all ages.
A room or building
for the display or
sale of works of art.

Shape

The external form or

appearance
characteristic of
someone or
something; the
outline of an area or
figure.

Geometric Shapes

Many twodimensional
geometric shapes
can be defined by a
set of points or
vertices and lines
connecting the
points in a closed
chain, as well as the
resulting interior
points. Such shapes
are called polygons
and include
triangles, squares,
and pentagons.

Free-form Shapes

Forms

Space (dimensional)

A shape having an
irregular contour,
chiefly used in
nonrepresentational
art and industrial
design. 2.
Linguistics. A
linguistic form that
can occur by itself,
as fire, book, or run.
Is one of the seven
elements of art. At
its most basic, a
form is a threedimensional
geometrical figure
(i.e.: sphere, cube,
cylinder, cone, etc.),
as opposed to a
shape, which is twodimensional, or flat.
Outer space, or just
space, is the void
that exists between
celestial bodies,
including the Earth.
It is not completely
empty, but consists
of a hard vacuum
containing a low
density of particles,

Holograms

Point of view

Chiaroscuro

Typically, a
hologram is a
photographic
recording of a light
field, rather than of
an image formed by
a lens, and it is used
to display a fully
three-dimensional
image of the
holographed
subject, which is
seen without the aid
of special glasses or
other intermediate
optics.
A particular attitude
or way of
considering a
matter.

The treatment of
light and shade in
drawing and
painting.

Highlights

An outstanding part
of an event or
period of time.

Perspective

The art of drawing

solid objects on a
two-dimensional
surface so as to give
the right impression
of their height,
width, depth, and
position in relation
to each other when
viewed from a
particular point.
The first major
stateside exhibition
of his 3-D work
around 50 years.

Pablo Picassos
Sculpture Art, New
York Show

Political Art

Art presents
direct and
indirect
perspectives
on society

Media Art

A genre that
encompasses
artworks
created with
new media
technologies.
Any art that is
made with the
help of a
computer.

Digital Art

Keith Haring

An American
artist who
expressed
birth, death,
sexuality, and
war.

Tiannanmen
Square

A protest in
1989 that took
place in China
in response to
certain laws.

Individual Art
Style

Adobe
Illustrator
Application

Clipping Mask

A way in which
an act is
performed or
an artifact is
made or ought
to be
performed or
made.
A vector
graphics app
that lets you
create logos,
icons,
sketches,
typography
and complex
illustrations for
print, web,
interactive,
video and
mobile.
An object
whose shape
masks other
artwork so that
only areas that
lie within the
shape are
visible-in
effect.

Vector Art:
points,
anchors,
paths

The use of
geometrical
primitives
such as
points, lines,
curves, and
shapes or
polygons-all
of which are
based on
mathematica
l expressionsto represent
images in
computer
graphics.

Macys
Believe
Advertising

A campaign
that makes a
$1 donation
to Make-AWish.

Advertising

A form of
marketing
communicati
on used to
promote or
sell
something,
usually a
businesss
product or
service.

Marketing

Advertising
Cost/
Revenue

T-shirt
Design

The action of
promoting
and selling
products or
services,
including
market
research and
advertising.
Income,
especially
when a
company or
organization
and of a
substantial
nature.
A machine
used to print
pictures on tshirts.

Wearable Art Individually

designed
pieces of
handmade
clothing or
jewelry
created as
fine or
expressive
art.
Silkscreen
Printing

A
printmaking
technique in
which a mesh
cloth is
stretched
over a heavy
wooden
frame

Albrecht
Durer

A German
painter and
printmaker
that utilized
watercolors
and known
for selfportraits.

Sublimation
Printing

A printing
technique
made by a
computer
printer and
uses heat to
transfer.

Etching
Printing

The process
of using
strong acid or
mordant to
cut
unprotected
parts of a
metal
surface.

Monochroma Some
tic Printing
painting done
in one color
or in black
and white.

Chromablast
Printing

Patented in
and media
driven by
powerful
print
software
using cotton.

Woodblock
Printing

A technique
for printing
text, images
or patterns
used widely
in East Asia
and China.

Reformation
Art

Art that
revolves
around
Catholicism.

Renaissance
Art

The painting,
sculpture,
and
decorative
arts of the
period of
European
history.

Leonardo Da
Vinci

An Italian
polymath
known for his
many areas
of interest.

Lithography
Printing

A method of
printing
based on oil
and water.

Serigraph
Printing

Printing that
prints one
color at a
time so it
could
produce a
multicolored
image or
design.

Advertising
Cost/
Revenue

The first
major
stateside
exhibition of
his 3-D work
around 50
years.