VOCABULARY TERM

Definition

Artwork!

Visual expression of an
idea or experience created
with skill

Perceive!

To perceive is to become
deeply aware through the
senses of the special
nature of a visual object.

Folk artists

Artists who are self

taught and have little or
no formal teaching in
artistic methods

Artists

Creative individuals who

use imagination and skill
to communicate in visual
form
a technique and style of
abstract painting in which
paint is randomly
splashed, thrown, or
poured on the canvas

Action painting

Symbol

Something that stands for,

or represents something
else

Elements of art

The basic visual symbols in

the in language of art

Example (:

Principles of art

The rules that govern how

artists organize the
elements of art

Subject ( Art)

The image viewers can

easily identify in a work of
art

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

A very well-known Art

collector

Grant wood

Wood's best known work is

his 1930 painting
American Gothic, which is
also one of the most
famous paintings in
American art

Art Criticism-Critique

An organized approach for

studying a work of art

Principals of Art

The rules that govern how

artists organize the
elements of art

Aesthetics

A Branch of philosophy
concerned with the nature
and value of art

AESTHETICS EXPERIENCE

Your personal interaction

with a work of art

Theories of art

Aims to shed light on some

aspect of the project of
defining art or to theorize
about the structure of our
concept of art without
providing classical
definitions, namely
definitions formulated in
terms of necessary and
sufficient conditions

Literalism

Literalism offered an
experience of
"theatricality" or
"presence" rather than
"presentness" (a condition
that required continual
renewal)

Expressionism

Its typical trait is to

present the world solely
from a subjective
perspective, distorting it
radically for emotional
effect in order to evoke
moods or ideas

Formalism

Places emphasis on the

formal qualities,
arrangement of the
elements of art using the
principles of art.

Imitationalism

Refers to art that focuses

on things being
realistically represented. A
theory of art that judge's
artwork based on how real
it looks.

Emotionalism

Requires that a work of art

must arouse a response of
feelings, moods, or
emotions in the viewer

Expressive qualities

Qualities that convey ideas

and moods

Diego Velasquez

Diego Rodrguez de
Silva y Velzquez was a
Spanish painter who
was the leading artist in
the court of King Philip
IV and one of the most
important painters of
the Spanish Golden Age

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso,

also known as Pablo
Picasso, was a Spanish
painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist,
stage designer, poet
and playwright who
spent most of his adult
life in France

Andy Warhol

Georgia OKeefe

an American artist who

was a leading figure in
the visual art movement
known as pop art. His
works explore the
relationship between
artistic expression,
celebrity culture, and
advertisement that
flourished by the 1960s
An American artist best
known for her paintings
of enlarged flowers,
New York skyscrapers,
and New Mexico
landscapes

Art Criticism-Critique

Art critics usually

criticise art in the
context of aesthetics or
the theory of beauty.

Literal Qualities

The realistic qualities

that appear in the
subject of the work

Formal qualities

Organization of the
elements of art by the
principles of art

Culture

A culture is a way of life

of a group of people-the behaviors, beliefs,
values, and symbols
that they accept,
generally without
thinking about them,
and that are passed
along by communication
and imitation from one
generation to the next.

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural anthropology is
a branch of
anthropology focused
on the study of cultural
variation among
humans

Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo
Felipe Jacinto Dal i
Domnech, Marqus de
Dal de Pubol, known as
Salvador Dal, was a
prominent Spanish
surrealist painter born in
Figueres, Catalonia,
Spain

Jose Orozco

Jos Clemente Orozco

was a Mexican painter,
who specialized in bold
murals that established
the Mexican Mural
Renaissance together
with murals by Diego
Rivera, David Alfaro
Siqueiros, and others.

Henri Matisse

Henri-mile-Benot
Matisse was a French
artist, known for both
his use of colour and his
fluid and original
draughtsmanship. He
was a draughtsman,
printmaker, and
sculptor, but is known
primarily as a painter

Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence was an

African-American
painter known for his
portrayal of AfricanAmerican life. Lawrence
referred to his style as
"dynamic cubism,"
though by his own
account the primary
influence was ...

Surrealism

a 20th-century avantgarde movement in art

and literature that
sought to release the
creative potential of the
unconscious mind, for
example by the
irrational juxtaposition
of images.

Layer Mask

Cubism

Layer masks are a

fundamental tool in
image manipulations.
They allow you to
selectively modify the
opacity (transparency)
of the layer they belong
to. This differs from the
use of the layer Opacity
slider as a mask has the
ability to selectively
modify the opacity of
different areas across a
single layer.
Cubism was one of the most
influential visual art styles of
the early twentieth century.
It was created by Pablo
Picasso (Spanish, 1881
1973) and Georges Braque
(French, 18821963) in Paris
between 1907 and 1914.

POP Art

Pop art is an art movement

that emerged in the mid1950s in Britain and the late
1950s in the United States.
Among the early artists that
shaped the pop art
movement were Eduardo
Paolozzi and Richard
Hamilton in Britain, and
Robert Rauschenberg and
Jasper Johns in the United
States.

genealogy

a line of descent traced

continuously from an
ancestor

Ofrenda

Dia De los Muertos

Ancestry

An ofrenda (Spanish:
"offering") is a collection of
objects placed on a ritual
altar during the annual and
traditionally Mexican Dia de
los Muertos celebration

a Mexican holiday
celebrated throughout
Mexico, in particular the
Central and South regions,
and acknowledged around
the world in other cultures.
The holiday focuses on
gatherings of family and
friends to pray for and
remember friends and
family members who have
died, and help support
their spiritual journey
one's family or ethnic
descent.

Cultural Artifacts

Cultural artifact or artefact is

a term used in the social
sciences, particularly
anthropology, ethnology, and
sociology for anything
created by humans which
gives information about the
culture of its creator and
users.

Diarama

A three-dimensional
miniature or life-size scene in
which figures, stuffed
wildlife, or other objects are
arranged in a naturalistic
setting against a painted
background.

Ethnocentricity

the belief that your own

cultural or ethnic group is
superior to that of another

Huichols

The Huichol or Wixritari

(Huichol pronunciation:
/wiraitai/) are Native
Mexicans, living in the
Sierra Madre Occidental
range in the Mexican
states of Nayarit, Jalisco,
Zacatecas, and Durango.

Anti-Aliasing

Smoothing the jagged

appearance of diagonal
lines in a bitmapped
image. The pixels that
surround the edges of the
line are changed to
varying shades of gray or
color in order to blend the
sharp edge into the
background.

Alfa channel

In graphics, a portion of
each pixel's data that is
reserved for transparency
information. 32-bit
graphics systems contain
four channels -- three 8bit channels for red,
green, and blue (RGB)
and one 8-bit alpha
channel. The alpha
channel is really a mask-it specifies how the pixel's
colors should be merged
with another pixel when
the two are overlaid, one
on top of the other.

Composite_(.psd)

made up of distinct parts:

as. a capitalized : relating
to or being a modification
of the Corinthian order
combining angular Ionic
volutes with the
acanthus-circled bell of
the Corinthian. b : of or
relating to a very large
family

Cai-quo-giang

Cai Guo-Qiang is a
Chinese contemporary
artist living and working
in New York City

Ai Wei Wei

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese
Contemporary artist and
activist. Ai collaborated
with Swiss architects
Herzog & de Meuron as
the artistic consultant on
the Beijing National
Stadium for the 2008
Olympics

Media-Medium

A medium refers to the

materials that are used to
create a work of art. The
plural of medium is
media. Some of the most
common media are oil
paints (paints that use oil
to hold pigments
together), tempera
(pigments held together
with egg yolk), marble
(soft, white stone), and
bronze (a metal used to
cast sculptures).

Still-Life

A still life (plural still lifes)

is a work of art depicting
mostly inanimate subject
matter, typically
commonplace objects
which may be either
natural (food, flowers,
dead animals, plants,
rocks, or shells) or manmade (drinking glasses,
books, vases, jewelry,
coins, pipes, and so on)

Line Drawing

a drawing done using only

narrow lines, the variation
of which, in width and
density, produce such
effects as tone and
shading.

Shading

Shading refers to
depicting depth
perception in 3D models
or illustrations by varying
levels of darkness.
Example of flat shading
vs. Phong shading
interpolation. Phong
shading is a more realistic
shading technique,
developed by Bui Tuong
Phong in 1973

Printing/Reproduction

produce (books,
newspapers, magazines,
etc.), especially in large
quantities, by a
mechanical process
involving the transfer of
text, images, or designs
to paper.

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance

was the name given to
the cultural, social, and
artistic explosion that
took place in Harlem
between the end of World
War I and the middle of
the 1930s. During this
period Harlem was a
cultural center, drawing
black writers, artists,
musicians,
photographers, poets, and
scholars.

Sargeant Johnson

Sargent Claude Johnson

was one of the first
African-American artists
working in California to
achieve a national
reputation. He was known
for Abstract Figurative
and Early Modern styles

Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer was an

American landscape
painter and printmaker,
best known for his marine
subjects. He is considered
one of the foremost
painters in 19th-century
America and a
preeminent figure in
American art

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is 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 virtual museum is a
digital entity that draws
on the characteristics of a
museum, in order to
complement, enhance, or
augment the museum
experience through
personalization,
interactivity and richness
of content

Gallery Crawl-KQEDs
Virtual Gallery Show

KQEDs own virtual

gallery show

Spark-Art Production
Showcase Program

Spark Art Studio is an art

enrichment program
conveniently located in
Kettering, OH. SPARK
offers developmentally
appropriate art classes for
children of all ages.

Galleries

a room or building for the

display or sale of works of
art.

Shape

the external form or

appearance characteristic
of someone or something;
the outline of an area or
figure.

Geometric Shapes

Many two-dimensional
geometric shapes can be
defined by a set of points
or vertices and lines
connecting the points in a
closed chain, as well as
the resulting interior
points. Such shapes are
called polygons and
include triangles, squares,
and pentagons.

Free-form Shapes

a shape having an
irregular contour, chiefly
used in
nonrepresentational art
and industrial design. 2.
Linguistics. a linguistic
form that can occur by
itself, as fire, book, or run.

Forms

s one of the seven

elements of art. At its
most basic, a form is a
three-dimensional
geometrical figure (i.e.:
sphere, cube, cylinder,
cone, etc.), as opposed to
a shape, which is twodimensional, or flat.

Space (dimemtional)

Outer space, or just

space, is the void that
exists between celestial
bodies, including the
Earth. It is not completely
empty, but consists of a
hard vacuum containing a
low density of particles,

holograms

Typically, a hologram is a
photographic recording of
a light field, rather than of
an image formed by a
lens, and it is used to
display a fully threedimensional image of the
holographed subject,
which is seen without the
aid of special glasses or
other intermediate optics.

Point of view

a particular attitude or
way of considering a
matter.

chiaroscuro

the treatment of light and

shade in drawing and
painting.

highlights

an outstanding part of an
event or period of time.

perspective

the art of drawing solid

objects on a twodimensional surface so as
to give the right
impression of their height,
width, depth, and position
in relation to each other
when viewed from a
particular point.

Political Art

In the sense that art

presents direct and
indirect perspectives on
society, all art can be
described as "political art.

Media

the main means of mass

communication
(especially television,
radio, newspapers, and
the Internet) regarded
collectively.

Digital Art

Digital art is an artistic

work or practice that uses
digital technology as an
essential part of the
creative or presentation
process.

Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring was an

American artist and social
activist whose work
responded to the New
York City street culture of
the 1980s by expressing
concepts of birth, death,
sexuality, and war

Ai WEI WEI

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese
Contemporary artist and
activist. Ai collaborated
with Swiss architects
Herzog & de Meuron as
the artistic consultant on
the Beijing National
Stadium for the 2008
Olympics

Tiananmen Square

a large plaza in central

Beijing, China: noted
especially as the site of
major student
demonstrations in 1989
suppressed by the
government.

Individual Art Style

Style is a word we use

freely and without much
thought. But what does it
mean? In her book Living
With Art, Rita Gilbert
writes that style is a
characteristic or group of
characteristics that we
can identify as constant,

recurring, or coherent.
Dia De Los Muertos_ Folk
Art

Art of skeletons and the

dead to honor the
deceased

Adobe Illustrator
Application

Adobe Illustrator is a
program used by both
artists and graphic
designers to create vector
images. These images will
then be used for company
logos, promotional uses
or even personal work,
both in print and digital
form.

Clipping Mask

A clipping mask is an
object whose shape
masks other artwork so
that only areas that lie
within the shape are
visiblein effect, clipping
the artwork to the shape
of the mask. The clipping
mask and the objects that
are masked are called a
clipping set.

Vector Art: points,

anchors, paths

Used in the pen tool,

where you can make a
selection by using it

Macy's Believe Advertising

Ad to promote mailing to
santa

Advertising

the 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.

Advertising_Cost /
Revenue

The income generated

from sale of goods or
services, or any other use
of capital or assets,
associated with the main
operations of an
organization before any
costs or expenses are
deducted. Revenue is
shown usually as the top
item in an income (profit
and loss) statement from
which all charges, costs,
and expenses are
subtracted to arrive at
net income.

T-shirt design wearable

Personally designed Tshirt

ART SILKSCREEN PRINTING

Also called silkscreen

process. a printmaking
technique in which a
mesh cloth is stretched
over a heavy wooden
frame and the design,
painted on the screen by
tusche or affixed by
stencil, is printed by
having a squeegee force
color through the pores of
the material in areas not
blocked out by a glue
sizing.

ALBRETCH DUERER

Albrecht Drer was a

painter, printmaker and
theorist of the German
Renaissance

SUBLIMATION PRINTING

A dye-sublimation printer
is a computer printer
which employs a printing
process that uses heat to
transfer dye onto
materials such as a
plastic, card, paper, or
fabric.

ETCHING PRINTING

In traditional
pure etching, a metal
(usually copper, zinc or
steel) plate is covered
with a waxy ground which
is resistant to acid. The
artist then scratches off
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

MONOCHROME PRINITING

The definition of monochr

ome is something that is
all one color or done
in black and white. When
you don't want to use
your color ink so
you print on your
computer using grayscale
and the picture comes out
in shades of black, white
and gray, this is an
example of printing in
a monochrome style.

CHROMABLAST PRINTING

ChromaBlast is a unique
patented ink and media
combination driven by
powerful print software to
create the best cotton
imaging system available.
As heat and pressure is
applied to the cotton, a
chemical cross-link with
cotton occurs. The result
is a customized cotton
shirt with soft hand,
vibrant color and superior
washability.

WOODBLOCK PRINTING

Woodblock printing is a
technique
forprinting 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.

Reformation art

The Protestant
Reformation during the
16th century in Europe
almost entirely rejected
the existing tradition of
Catholic art, and very
often destroyed as much
of it as it could reach. A
new artistic tradition
developed, producing far
smaller quantities of art
that followed Protestant
agendas and diverged
drastically from the
southern European
tradition and the
humanist art produced
during the High
Renaissance

RENAISSANCE ART

Derived from the French

word, renaissance, and
the Italian word rinascit,
both meaning 'rebirth',
the Renaissance was a
period when scholars and
artists began to
investigate what they
believed to be a revival of
classical learning,
literature and art.

LEANARDO DE VINCI

Leonardo di ser Piero da

Vinci, more commonly
Leonardo da Vinci, was an
Italian polymath whose
areas of interest included
invention, painting,
sculpting, architecture,
science, music,
mathematics, ...

SERIAGRAPH printing

Screen printing, also

known as serigraphy, is a
method of creating an
image on paper, fabric or
some other object by
pressing ink through a
screen with areas blocked
off by a stencil.

Printing

the production of books,

newspapers, or other
printed material.

Wearable art

Wearable art, also known

as Artwear or "art to
wear", refers to
individually designed
pieces of (usually)
handmade clothing or
jewellery created as fine
or expressive art.

Silk screen printing

Also called silkscreen

process. a printmaking
technique in which a
mesh cloth is stretched
over a heavy wooden
frame and the design,
painted on the screen by
tusche or affixed by
stencil, is printed by
having a squeegee force
color through the pores of
the material in areas not
blocked out by a glue
sizing.