Starter Kit Vocab Flashcards
(26 cards)
Form
The arrangement, pattern, or structure of work
Disciplines
Different branches of humanities
Ex. Art, architecture, music, literature, philosophy, history
Content
What a work is about it’s meaning or substance
Composition
The arrangement of it’s constituent parts
Technique
The process or method that produces the art
Medium
The physical material that make up the work, such as oil paint on canvas
Style
The manner in which something is done
Conventions
Accepted practices, such as the use of a frontal eye in a profile face
Religious
(Liturgical, music, or drama) is used as a part of the ritual of the given religion
Secular
Used to provide pleasure and entertainment, and service of political or propaganda
Representation
Is an ancient function of visual arts in which likeness of an object or life form is produce
Line
A mark on a surface
Maybe continuous or broken
Shape
An area with identifiable boundaries
Organic
Based on natural forms in this rounded or irregular
Geometric
Based on measured forms
Mass
The solid parts of the three-dimensional object
Negative space
An area of space devoid of all its mass
Positive space
An area occupied by mass
Form
The shape and structure of something
Color
The sensation produced by various wavelengths of light
Value
The lightness or darkness of an area of color or as measured between black and white
Texture
The appearance or feel of the surface basically smooth or rough
Composition
The arrangement or formal components of an artwork most frequently used to describe an organization of elements in a drawing or painting
Perspective
A system of portraying three-dimensional space on a two dimensional surface
