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Art Smart Glossary
UIL Art Contest Glossary 2013-2015
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | a general style of painting characterized by subjects that were not realistic |
| Allegory | a work that uses symbols to stand for ideas or to convey messages |
| Art Elements | the artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting |
| Background | that part of a painting that seems farthest away from the viewer |
| Baroque | a period of art history from 1600-1750 that were usually formal, show tiny details of scenery and costume, have a great sense of energy and movement, and often include sharp contrasts between light and dark areas of the paintings |
| Canvas | treated fabric, stretched over a frame, to which paint is applied |
| Cityscape | a type of landscape painting that features scenes of streets, buildings, and other city features |
| Complementary Colors | pairs of colors that are farthest away from each other on the color wheel |
| Composition | how individual art elements, like light, color, lines and shapes, work with each other and as a whole to form a complete painting |
| Contrast | a comparison that draws attention to the differences between things |
| Cool Colors | colors such as blue, green, lavender, purple, and others, that we associate with cool or cold temperatures |
| Cubism | a style of painting where artists took familiar objects from everyday life, broke them up into geometric figures like cubes and triangles, then put them back together |
| Fauvism | a style of painting with shockingly bright colors and strange or twisted forms of human figures and other objects |
| Foreground | that part of a painting that seems closest to the viewer |
| Form | the three-dimensional shape of an object |
| Genre Painting | a painting of ordinary people engaged in common, everyday activities |
| History and Legend Painting | a painting that tells a story about important people or important events |
| Impressionism | a style of painting where artist placed different colors side-by-side very close together on the canvas, letting viewers' eyes blend the colors together |
| Landscape | a painting of an outdoor view that features large areas of natural scenery |
| Light | the source of light in a painting |
| Lines | lines drawn by a artist to mark the edges of something |
| Modern | a period of art history 1750-1900 |
| Mood | the feelings and emotions an artist wants viewers to experience when we look at a painting |
| Neoclassicism | a style of painting which imitated the style of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture |
| Neutral Colors | colors such as black, white, tan and beige, which have neither a warm nor a cool effect in painting |
| Perspective | the illusion of depth or distance |
| Point of View | the position from which the viewer sees objects in a painting |
| Pointillism | a style of painting in which the picture is composed of tiny dots, or points, of color placed very close to one another on the canvas |
| Portrait | a painting of a person, usually one formally posed and looking outward from the painting |
| Primary Colors | red, yellow, and blue, colors that cannot be made by putting others colors together |
| Renaissance | a period in art history, 1400-1600, where techniques of showing perspective and methods of painting with oil-based paints were developed. |
| Rhythm | something that repeats, and creates a kind of pattern |
| Rococo | a decorative style of painting, usually of wealthy people engaged in activities of recreation or amusement |
| Romanticism | a style of painting where the artist believed that painting should express emotions about man in the modern world |
| Seascape | a type of landscape painting that features large expanses of water |
| Secondary Colors | colors like green, purple, and orange that can be created by combining primary colors |
| Still Life | a painting of objects that do not move, a close-up view and carefully arranged groups of objects, shown in an indoor setting, often on a table top |
| Symbol | something that stands for or suggests an idea |
| Texture | the way an object feels on its surface when you touch it |
| Twentieth Century | a period of art history 1900-2000, artists felt the freedom to move away from the physical world as their subjects and paint what they felt or imagined, whether it was recognizable to viewers or not |
| Warm Colors | colors such as red, yellow,orange that we associate with warm temperatures |
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