VOCABULARY

TERM

Definition

Artwork!

The visual expression of

an idea or created with
skill
-using your creativity
and imagination to build,
construct, draw, create,
paint, etc
To become deeply aware
through the senses of
the special nature of a
visual object
-through using your
senses, such as seeing
and hearing,
understanding the object
or picture youre looking
at
Artists who are selftaught and therefore
have had little or no
formal schooling in
artistic methods
-people who learn the
works of art naturally by
themselves, without
being taught by others
Creative individuals who
use imagination and skill
to communicate in visual
form
-a person who uses their
creative talent to create
or make something that
they see

Perceive!

Folk artists

Artists

Example (:

Action painting

Symbol

Elements of art
(Name them)

The technique of
dripping and splashing
paint onto a canvas
stretched on the floor
-throwing, splashing, or
pouring paint onto a
canvas in an
unorganized matter
Something that stands
for, or represents,
something else
-an object or thing that
resembles another thing
Basic visual symbols in
the language of art
-building blocks to
create art
Line
Shape
Form
Color
Value
Texture

Principles of art

The rules that

govern how artists
organize the
elements of art
:rhythm, movement,
pattern, balance,
proportion, variety,
emphasis, and
harmony

Subject ( Art)

The image viewers

can easily identify in
an artwork

Nonobjective art

Art that has no

recognizable subject
matter

Composition

The way the

principles of art are
used to organize the
elements of art

Content (

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

An American author
and poet known for
her literary
endeavors, and had
great influence over
others through her
role as an avid
collector of modern
art

Grant wood

U.S. painter known

for his works based
on life in the Midwest

Art CriticismCritique

An organized
approach for
studying a work of
art

Aesthetics

The philosophy or
study of the nature
and value of art

AESTHETICS
EXPERIENCE

Your personal
interaction with a
work of art

Layer Mask

A tool that allows you to

modify the transparency
of a layer

Cubism

A style of painting and

sculpting characterized on
emphasis of formal
structure into abstract and
rendered on a set of
planes

Pop Art

A form of art that depicts

objects or scenes from
everyday life and
techniques of commercial
and popular art

Literalism

The realistic
qualities that
appear in the
subject of the
work

Formlative

The organization
of the elements
of art by the
principle of art

Expressive

Those qualities
that convey
ideas and moods

Imitationalism

Focuses on
realistic
representation

Emotionalism

Requires that a
work of art must
arouse a
response of
feelings, moods,
or emotions in
the viewer

Ancestry

Ones family or ethnic

decent

Cultural Artifacts

An item when found ,

reveals valuable
information about the
society that made or
used it

Diorama

A model representing a
scene with three
dimensional figures,
either in miniature or as
a large scale museum
exhibit

Ethnocentricity

The belief that youre out

culture or ethnic group is
superior to that of other

Cultural
Anthropology

Study of mankind
that deals with
origin, history, and
development of
human culture

Genealogy

A record of the
descent of an
ancestor

Ofrenda

Collection of object
placed on a ritual
alter during the
tradition Die De
Los Muertos
celebration
Dia De Los Muertos A Mexican
celebration, a day
to celebrate,
remember, and
prepare special
foods in honor of
those who
departed

Huichols

Anti-Aliasing

Native Americans
living in Sierra Madre
Occidental range in
the Mexican states of
Nayarit, Jalisco,
Zacatecas, and
Durango
A technique to add
greater realism to a
digital image by
smoothing jagged
edges on curved
lines and diagonals

Alfa channel

Composite_(.psd)

Cai-quo-giang

Ai Wei Wei

A color component
that represents the
degree of
transparency of a
color; used to
determine how a
pixel is rendered
when blended with
one another
Made up of separate
parts or elements

A Chinese
contemporary artist
known for art using
gunpowder and
making installations
Chinese multimedia
artist and political
activist

Media-Medium

Artworks that depend on

a technological
component to function;
The material used to
make art

Still-Life

Art depicting mostly

inanimate subject
matter, typically
commonplace objects
which may be either
natural or man-made

Line Drawing

A drawing made with

lines only, especially
one used as copy for
a line cut.

Shading

used in drawing for

depicting levels of
darkness on paper
by applying media
more densely or with
a darker shade for
darker areas, and
less densely or with
a lighter shade for
lighter areas.
a reproduction of an
original work of art
(as a painting) made
by a
photomechanical
process
; a copy
African-American
cultural movement of
the 1920s and
1930s, centered in
Harlem, that
celebrated black
traditions, the black
voice, and black
ways of life

Printing/Reproductio
n

Harlem Renaissance

Jacob Lawrence

Sargeant Johnson

Winslow Homer

Jasper Johns

An African-American
painter known for his
portrayal of AfricanAmerican life.
referred to his style
as "dynamic
cubism," though by
his own account the
primary influence
was not so much
French art as the
shapes and colors of
Harlem
pent his career in the
Bay Area; he was the
first African
American artist on
the West Coast to
achieve a national
reputation
American landscape
painter and
printmaker, best
known for his marine
subjects
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
Virtual Gallery
a collection of
digitally recorded
images, sound files,
text documents, and
other data of
historical, scientific,
or cultural interest
that are accessed
through electronic
media
Gallery Crawlvirtually view a local
KQEDs Virtual
art exhibit,
Gallery Show
while listening to
firsthand information
about exhibitions
from curators and
artists
Spark-Art Production an educational
Showcase Program outreach program
and a Web site. More
than a showcase for
art objects and the
artists who make
them, Spark takes
the audience inside
the creative process
to witness the
challenges,

opportunities and
rewards of making
art.

Galleries

building or space for

the exhibition of art

Shape

areas of enclosed
space that are twodimensional

Geometric Shapes

have the clear edges

one achieves when
using tools to create
them

Free-form Shapes

shape having an
irregular contour

Forms

element of art that is

three-dimensional
(height, width, and
depth) and encloses
volume

Space (dimemtional)

area around, above,

and within an object

holograms

he pattern produced
on a photosensitive
medium that has
been exposed by
holography and then
photographicallydev
eloped

Point of view

manner of viewing
things; an attitude

chiaroscuro

the treatment of light

and shade in drawing
and painting

highlights

An area or a spot in a
drawing, painting, or
photograph that is
strongly illuminated

perspective

a way of portraying
three dimensions on
a flat, twodimensional surface
by suggesting depth
or distance

Silkscreen Printing

a print made using a

stencil process in which an
image or design is
superimposed on a very
fine mesh screen and
printing ink is squeegeed
onto the printing surface
through the area of the
screen that is not covered
by the stencil
computer printer which
employs a printing
process that uses heat to
transfer dye onto
materials such as a
plastic, card, paper, or
fabric

Sublimation

Wearable Art

individually designed
pieces of (usually)
handmade clothing or
jewellery created as fine
or expressive art

Chromoblast

heat transfer paper is the

professionals choice for
digitally printing white and
light colored t-shirts, tote
bags and other cotton
fabrics

Political Art

work that contains

political subject matter,
takes a stand on an issue,
addresses a public
concern, or awakens
viewer sensitivity

Media

artworks that depend on a

technological component
to function

Digital Art

art in which computer

technology is used in a
wide variety of ways to
make distinctive works

Keith Haring

American artist Keith

Haring was best known for
his graffiti-inspired
drawings, which he first
made in subway stations
and later exhibited in
museums

Tiananmen Square

An extensive open area in

central Beijing, China, the
world's largest public
square. Adjacent to the
Forbidden City, it has long
been the site of festivals,
rallies, and
demonstrations. In 1989
Chinese troops fired on
student demonstrators,
killing an estimated 2,000
or more
full-featured drawing
program for Windows and
Macintosh from Adobe. It
provides sophisticated
tracing and text
manipulation capabilities
as well as color
separations.
use of geometrical
primitives such as points,
lines, curves, and shapes
or polygonsall of which
are based on
mathematical expressions
to represent images in
computer graphics

Adobe Illustrator
Application

Vector Art: points,

anchors, paths

Macys Believe Advertising

Advertising

Macys and the Make-AWish Foundation have

heard the whispers of
children in need and will
grant more than 50 of
their wishes in a single
day
activity or profession of
producing advertisements
for commercial products
or services

Marketing

the action or business of

promoting and selling
products or services,
including market research
and advertising

Advertise Cost/ Revenue

category included in
financial accounting to
represent expenses
associated with promoting
an industry, entity, brand,
product name, or specific
products or services in
order to stimulate a desire
to buy the entity's
products or services

Albretch Durer

a painter, printmaker
and theorist of the
German Renaissance

Etching Printer

a metal (usually
copper, zinc or steel)
plate is covered with a
waxy ground which is
resistant to acid. The
artist then scratches of
the ground with a
pointed etching needle
where he or she wants
a line to appear in the
finished piece, so
exposing the bare
metal
a painting, drawing,
design, or photograph
in black and white, or in
shades of one color
often with black or
white

Monochrome Printing

Woodblock Printing

Reformation Art

a technique for printing

text, images or
patterns used widely
throughout East Asia
and originating in China
in antiquity as a
method of printing on
textiles and later paper.
a new type of Christian
art which celebrated
the Protestant religious
agenda, and diverged
radically from the High
Renaissance art of
Italy, Spain, Naples and
other areas of southern

Renaissance Art

Europe, which
remained Roman
Catholic
painting, sculpture,
architecture, music,
and literature produced
during the 14th, 15th,
and 16th centuries in
Europe under the
combined influences of
an increased
awareness of nature, a
revival of classical
learning, and a more
individualistic view of
man