VOCABULARY TERM

Definition

Artwork!

Illustrations, photographs, or
other no textual material
prepared for inclusion in a
publication.

Perceive!

To deeply aware through

the senses

Folk artists

Artists who are self-taught

and had no or little
schooling

Artists

Creative individuals who

use skill and imagination
to communicate

Action painting

Where paint splashes and

drips on to the canvas

Symbol

Something that represents

an object

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Elements of art

Basic visual values in the

language of arts

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Principles of art

Rules that help you

organize the elements of
art.

Subject ( Art)

The images viewers can

identify

Nonobjective art

Art that doesnt have a

subject

Composition

The way the principles of

art are used to organize
the principles of art

Content

The message the work

communicates

Credit line

A list of important
facts about a work of
art.

Medium

Material used to make art

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein is known

for her literary endeavors,
she originally found her
influence through her role
as an avid collector of
Modern

Grant wood

He is best known for his

paintings depicting the
rural American Midwest,
particularly the painting
American Gothic, an iconic
image of the 20th century.

Art Criticism-Critique

An organized approach for

studying a work of art.

Principals of Art

Rules that help you

organize the elements of
art.

Aesthetics

The philosophy or study of

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

Diego Velasquez

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 Picaso

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

Andy Warhol

that flourished by
the 1960s.

Grant wood

Georgia OKeefe

Grant DeVolson
Wood was an
American painter
born four miles east
of Anamosa, Iowa.
He is best known
for his paintings
depicting the rural
American Midwest,
particularly the
painting American
Gothic, an iconic
image of the 20th
century.
was an American
artist. O'Keeffe first
came to the
attention of the
New York art
community in 1916.

Art Criticism-Critique

the discussion or evaluation of

visual art.

Principals of Art

balance, proportion, emphasis,

variety, movement, rhythm,
and harmony. They are used
to organize the basic elements
of art (line, shape, form, value,
color, space, and texture), and
they are sometimes also
referred to as principles of
organization or
design principles.
concerned with beauty or the
appreciation of beauty.

Aesthetics

AESTHETICS
EXPERIENCE

Experience qualitatively
different from
everyday experience and
similar to other exceptional
states of mind.

Formal qualities

describe and create

visual qualities in a
systematic way

The expressive
qualities

Imitationalism

Formalism

of a theory of
aesthetics in which a
work of art is
considered best
when it portrays a
person place or thing
the most accurately.
study of art by
analyzing and
comparing form and
stylethe way
objects are made
and their purely
visual aspects.

Culture

the arts and other

manifestations of human
intellectual achievement
regarded collectively.

Cultural
Anthropology

a branch of
anthropology
focused on the study
of cultural variation
among humans and
is in contrast to
social anthropology
which perceives
cultural variation as
a subset of the
anthropological
constant.

Genealogy

Diarama

Ancestry

Ofrenda

Cultural Artifacts

Ethnocentricity

Dia De Los Muertos

Huichols

Anti-Aliasing

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Cai-quo-giang

Ai Wei Wei

Media-Medium

Still-Life

Line Drawing

Shading

Printing/Reproduction

Artwork!

Artwork is a visual
representation of an
idea. The creativity
on many subjects

Perceive!

Folk artists

Artists

Action painting

Symbol

Elements of art

Perceive is to
become deeply
aware through the
senses of the special
nature of a visual
object
Folk artists are
artists who had
taught themselves
skills that they
perceive in art
Artists are people
who express
themselves in
creative ways
through art
Action painting is the
technique of dripping
and splashing paint
onto a canvas
stretched on the
floor
A symbol is
something that
signifies or
represents another
thing
The elements of art
are the basic visual
symbols in the
language of art