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Art Terminologies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Art | A product of human effort in which materials are skillfully ordered to communicate a human experience |
| Asymmetrical Balance | A form of balance attained when the visual units of either side of a vertical axis are not identical but are place in position within the pictorial field so as to create a "felt" equilibrium of the total concept |
| Balance | A feeling of equality in weight, attention, or attraction of the various visual elements within the pictorial field as means of accomplishing organic unity. |
| Biomorphic Shapes | Shapes which are irregular in form and resemble the freely developed curves of organic life. |
| Cast Shadow | The dark area created on a surface when another form is placed to prevent the light from falling on that surface. |
| Chiaroscuro | Literally, "light-dark". In painting and drawing the use of dark and light value areas to represent the effects of light and shadow |
| Composition | The act of organizing all the elements of work of art into a harmoniously unified whole. Each element used may have intrinsic characteristics which create interest, but must function in such a way that "the whole is more important than its parts." |
| Concept | A comprehensive idea or generalization which brings diverse elements into some basic relationship |
| Content | The essential meaning, significance, or aesthetic value of an art form. The psychological or sensory properties one tends to feel in art forms as opposed to the visual aspects of a work of art. |
| Contrast | The comparative relationship between two or more relatively opposed elements or forces. |
| Craftsmanship | Aptitude, skill, and manual dexterity in the use of tools and materials. |
| Design | A framework or scheme of pictorial construction on which the artist bases the formal organization of this total work. In a broader sense, it may be considered synonymous with the term form. |
| Esthetics | The study of the nature of beauty and the response to it. |
| Eye Level | The height of the viewer's eyes above the ground plane. |
| Figure-Ground | A phrase referring to a visually ambiguous relationship between two or more color forms on one surface. Their spatial positions may appear to alternate, one then the other closer to the observer. |
| Fine Art | Traditionally the non-applied arts in the visual arts, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and, in some estimates, architecture |
| Formal Balance | A symmetrical arrangement of the visual weights in a work of art |
| Foreshortening | The representation of forms on a two dimensional surface so that the long axis(es) appears to project toward the viewer. |
| Form | In the broadest sense, the total physical characteristics of an object, event, or situation. |
| Format | Basic layout or proportions of a work being presented |
| Ground | The background in two-dimensional works--the area around and between figure(s). Also, the surface onto which paint is applied. |
| Mass | A distinct body of material, form, or group of forms. The physical bulk, weight, and density of a three dimensional object occupying space. |
| Medium | 1. The technique, methodology, or technology used by an artist as the means for the production of a work of art. 2. The material used to dilute paint, water/watercolor, oil/oil paint. |
| Modeling | Arranging bits of pliable material into 3D forms. Form of additive sculpture. Effect of light falling on a 3D object so that its forms are defined & dramatized by highlights and shadows--painting areas of varying tonalities to represent such. |
| Negative Shape | A background or ground shape produced by its interaction with foreground or figure shape(s). |
| Non-objective | An approach to art in which the visual signs are entirely imaginative. Do not derive from anything seen by artist. Shapes, organization,& treatment by artist are entirely personalized & not associated by observer w/ any previous experienced natural forms |
| Objective | an impersonal statement of observed facts. In art, the exact rendering by the artist of surface characteristics without alteration or interpretation of the visual image. |
| Perspective | mechanical system of creating illusion of a 3D space on a two dimensional surface. Linear perspective is primarily linear in treatment. Aerial or atmospheric perspective uses value and color modification to suggest or enhance the effect of space/ |
| Picture plane | an imaginary vertical plane assumed to be at the front surface of a painting. |
| Pictorial space | the implied or illusionary space in a painting or other two dimensional work as it appears to recede backward from the picture plane. |
| Positive Shapes | Enclosed areas which represent the initial selection of shapes planned by the artist. May suggest recognizable objects or merely be planned nonrepresentational shapes. |
| Proportion | size relationship of parts to a whole and to one anotehr |
| Shape | configuration of a two or three dimensional form. synonym for 2D form |
| Space | volume occupied by form. measurable linear/angular relationships between forms. volume enclosed by limiting walls/boundaries. area of 2D plane which painter places forms. representation of 3D spatial relationships on 2D surface. |
| Unity | quality of similarity, shared identity, or consistency that can be recognized in the relationships between parts of a composition. a logical connection between separate elements in a work of art. |
| Value | the tone quality of lightness or darkness given to a surface or an area by the amount of light reflected from it. the characteristic of a color in terms of lightness and darkness. determined by the amount of quantity of light reflected by a color. |
| Visual Weight | psychological response to a form with regard to its importance in a composition. the weight is a function of the size, shape, texture, and color of the form, its position relative to the other components of the structure, and its metaphoric content. |
| Volume | the space occupied by an object |
| Encaustic | Technique of painting with pigments dissolved in hot wax |
| Fresco | Technique of painting on moist plaster with pigments ground in water so that the paint is absorbed by the plaster and becomes part of the wall itself. |
| Tempera Painting | Painting made with pigments mixed with egg yolk and water. |
| Oil Painting | a painting executed with pigments mixed with oil applied either to a panel prepared with gesso or to stretched canvas primed with a coat of white paint and glued. |
| Watercolor | painting on paper with pigments suspended in water. |
| Acrylic | a plastic binder medium for pigments taht is soluble in water (developed bout 1960) |
| Gouache | Opaque watercolors |
| Collage | A composition made of cut and pasted scraps of materials |
| Mosaic | Decorative work for walls composed of small pieces of colored materials set in plaster or concrete |
| Solvent | Paint thinner |
| Gesso | a smooth mixture of ground chalk or plaster and glue used as a basis for tempera painting and oil painting |
| Impasto | thick application of paint |
| Glaze | thin application of paint, layering |
| Alla Prima | A painting technique in which pigments are laid on in one application with little or no under painting. |
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