This process hardens the clay and makes it very permanent.įixative: Varnish sprayed or painted onto a surface to prevent smudging or smearing. Typically paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints.įiring: The process of baking clay in a kiln or banked fire outside (such as raku firing). The most prominent painting material used from the 12th century to the rise of oil painting.Įmphasis: A principle in art where important elements and ideas are emphasized via composition.Įngraving: A process, used by printmakers, of incising or scratching lines into a wood block or metal plate from which a print was made.Įnvironmental art: Art made on a grand scale, involving the creation of a man-made environment such as architecture, sculpture, light or landscape.Įye-level: In reference to perspective, eye-level is the artists' view of where the perceived line or perspective came from.įigurative: Artwork based on the human form.įine art: A term used to describe work that is without any particular function. Particularly popular in the 1960's.ĭesign: From the Italian word meaning "drawing" which also implied planning and composing.ĭiptych: Painting, usually an altarpiece, made up of hinged panels.ĭrawing: Representations on a flat surface usually made with pen, pencil, crayon, chalk or paint with an emphasis on line.Įarth colors: Pigments made using earth (dirt) that contain metal oxides mixed with a binder such as glue.Įgg tempera: Paint made of powdered pigment and bound together with egg yolk or egg whites. When to complimentary colors are mixed together you will get a neutral toneĬomposition: The arrangement of the parts of a work of art.Ĭomputer art: Art made with the use of a computer program.Ĭonceptual art: Art where the idea, rather than the actual object is the most significant feature. Used to help understand color schemes.Ĭomplimentary colors: Colors opposite each other on the color wheel. The use and balance of light and shade in a painting, and in particular the use of strong contrast.Ĭlay: A natural, moist earth substance used in making bricks, tile, pottery and ceramic sculpture.Ĭollage: An arrangement of shapes adhered to a background.Ĭollagraph: A print made from a collage of assorted pasted materials such as papers, cardboards, string etc.Ĭolor: An element of art that refers to "hue".Ĭolor wheel: The organization of colors on a wheel. Typically refers to a type of writing that incorporates the use of a wide pen nib.Ĭanvas: Coarse cloth or heavy fabric that must be stretched and primed to use for painting, particularly for oil paintings.Ĭeramic: Clay objects that have been fired twice, the second time with a glaze.Ĭhalk: Soft limestone, sometimes used as a drawing material or mixed to make pastels and other crayons.Ĭharcoal: A drawing material made from charred wood.Ĭhiaroscuro: Italian word for "light-shade". (unglazed)īrush drawing: An image created with a paint brush, typically using India ink or watercolor, that has a linear quality rather than a painterly finish.īust: A sculpture representing the neck and head only of a person.Ĭalligraphy: Literally means beautiful line.
Balance can be either formal symmetrical, informal asymmetrical or radial.īinder: The "glue" the holds pigment together and makes it stick to a surface.īisque: Clay objects that have been fired one time. Particularly used in sculpture to build upon.Īssemblage: The use of found objects or three-dimensional objects to create a work of art.īalance: The art principle which refers to the arrangement of elements in an art work. Refers to such things as pottery, interior decorating, architecture, furniture, etcĪrmature: A structural support for an object. Applied art: A functional object or arrangement whereby the principles of art are applied. But currently aesthetics refers to the study or understanding of anything that is visually pleasing or "works" within the boundaries of the principles of art.Īnalogous colors: Colors next to each other on the color wheel. Aesthetics: Originally the study of beautiful things. Abstract art images are "abstracted" from real life images Acrylic paint: A plastic, water soluble pigment used for painting. Abstract Art: Art created from a realistic situation but represented unrealistically.
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