Glossary Flashcards
(24 cards)
Eclectic
Use and combine various sources from different works
Advancing colors
Strong colors; warm and hot colors
Chiaroscuro
Handling of lights and darks for atmospherical effect
Art brut
Crude, raw artwork
Impasto
Thick application of paint
Academic painting
Traditional painting
Glazing
Layers of transparent paint applied over dry, opaque paint
Degraded color
When a color’s intensity is softened by another color
Installation art
Art in which existing art is used to create another piece of artwork usually through rearrangement
Kitsch
Cheap, mass produced artwork
Lino cut
Substance for which prints are made
Local color
Actual colors of an object
Milieu
The “spirit” of the era or time that the artwork was created in
Monochrome
Medium with only one color and it’s different tones
Oeuvre
How much artwork an artist has produced
Opaque
Solid application of paint
Perspective
The illusion of depth
Aerial perspective
The use of color to suggest depths
Linear perspective
The use of line to suggest depth
Saturated color
Strong and bold colors
Scumbling
Opaque paint applied roughly over a darker color to reveal the underlying color
Sfumato
Gradiation of tone
Woodcut
A design cut into wood
Abstract art
Non-representational art
