Color Manuscripts

The optical effect caused when Handwritten texts

reflected white light of the spectrum Guilds
is divided into a separate Medieval associations of artists,
wavelength craftsmen, or tradesmen

Concentric Provenance
Identical shapes stacked inside The record of all known previous
each other sharing the same owners and locations of a work of
center, for example the circles of a art
target
Mural
Two-dimensional A painting executed directly on to a
Having height and width wall

Space Shape
The distance between identifiable The two-dimensional area the
points or planes boundaries of which are defined by
lines or suggested by changes in
Isometric Perspective color or value
A system using diagonal parallel
lines to communicate depth Conceptual Art
A work in which the ideas are often
Medieval as important as how it is made
Relating to the middle ages:
roughly, between the fall of the Actual Line
Roman Empire and the A continuous, uninterrupted line
Renaissance
Scale
Renaissance The size of an object or artwork
A period of cultural and artistic relative to another object or
change in Europe from the artwork, or to a system of
fourteenth to the seventeenth measurement
century
Stela (plural = Stele)
Patron Upright stone slab decorated with
An organization or individual who inscriptions or pictorial relief
sponsors the creation of works of carvings
art
Axis Calligraphy
An imaginary line showing the The art of emotive or carefully
center of a shape, volume, or descriptive handwriting
composition Ceramic
Fire-hardened clay, often painted,
Style and normally sealed with shiny
A characteristic way in which an protective coating
artist or a group of artists uses
visual language to give a work an Acadamies
identifiable form of visual Institutions training artists in both
expression the theory of art and practical
techniques
Emphasis
The principle of drawing attention Bauhaus
to particular content in a work Design school founded in Weimar,
Germany in 1919
Fresco
A technique where the artist paints Nuetral Tones
onto freshly applied plaster. Italian Colors (such as blacks, whites,
word meaning fresh. grays, and dull gray-browns) made
by mixing complementary hues
Shade
A color darker in value than its Oil Paint
purest state Paint made of pigment suspended
in oil
Complementary Colors
Colors opposite one another on the Ivory
color wheel Hard, creamy-colored material
from the tusks of such mammals as
Medium elephants
The material on or from which an
artist chooses to make a work of art Elements
The basic vocabulary of art - Line,
Print form, shape, volume, mass, color,
A picture reproduced on paper, texture, space, time and motion,
often multiple copies and value (lightness/darkness)

Watercolor Principles
Transparent paint made from The "Grammar" applied to the
pigment and a binder dissolved in elements of art - contrast, balance,
water unity, variety, rhythm, emphasis,
pattern, scale, proportion, and focal Implied Line
point A line not actually drawn but
suggested by elements in the work
Two-dimensional
Having height and width Rhythm
The regular or ordered repetition of
Line elements in the work
A mark, or implied mark, between
two endpoints Etching
A printmaking process that relies
Contrast on acid to bite (or etch) the
A drastic difference between such engraved design into the printing
elements as color or value surface
(lightness/darkness)
Background
Outline The part of a work depicted furthest
The outermost line of an object or from the viewer's space, often
figure, by which it is defined or behind the main subject matter
bounded
Volume
Plane The space filled or enclosed by a
A flat surface three-deminsional figure or object

Facade Space
Any side of a building, usually the The distance between identifiable
front or entrance points or planes

Automatic Collage
Supressing conscious control to A work of art assembled by gluing
access subconscious sources of materials, often paper, onto a
creativity and truth surface. From the French coller, to
glue.
Style
A characteristic way in which an Pattern
artist or group of artists uses visual An arrangement of predictably
language to give a work an repeated elements
identifiable form of visual
expression Highlight
An area of lightest value in a work
Positive Shape Form
A shape defined by its surrounding An object that can be defined in
empty space three dimensions (height, width,
depth)
Negative Space
An empty space given shape by its Volume
surround, for example the right- The space filled or enclosed by a
pointing arrow between the E and x three-dimensional figure or object
in FedEx
Mass
Abstract A volume that has, or gives the
Art imagery that departs from illusion of having, weight, density,
recognizable images from the and bulk.
natural world
Texture
Woodcut The surface quality of a work, for
A print created from an incised example fine/coarse,
piece of wood detailed/lacking in detail

Figure-ground Reversal Abstract

The reversal of the relationship Art imagery that departs from
between one shape (the figure) and recognizable images from the
its background (the ground), so that natural world
the figure becomes background
and the ground becomes the figure Color
The optical effect caused when
Three-dimensional reflected white light of the spectrum
Having height, width, and depth is divided into a separate
wavelength
Elements
The basic vocabulary of art - line, Relief
form, shape, volume, mass, color, A raised form on a largely flat
texture, space, time and motion, background. For example, the
and value (lightness/darkness) design on a coin is "in relief"

In the round
Shape A freestanding sculpted work that
The two-dimensional area the can be viewed from all sides
boundaries of which are defined by
lines or suggested by changes in
color or value
Facade Three-Dimensional
Any side of a building usually the Having height, width, and depth
front or enterance
Two-Dimensional
Foreground Having height and width
The part of a work depicted as
nearest to the viewer Value
The lightness or darkness of a
High Relief plane or area
A carved panel where the figures
project with a great deal of depth Space
from the background The distance between identifiable
points or planes
Bas-Relief
A sculpture carved with very little Perspective
depth The creation of the illusion of depth
in a two-dimensional image by
Plane using mathematical principles
A flat surface
Plane
Composition A flat surface
The overall design or ogranization
of a work Renaissance
A period of cultural and artistic
Focal Point change in Europe from the
The center of interest or activity in fourteenth to the seventeeth
a work of art, often drawing the century
viewer's attentino to the most
important element Highlight
An area of lightest value in a work
Negative Space
An empty space given shape by its Hatching
surround, for example "FedEx" The use of non-overlapping parallel
lines to convey darkness or
Surrealist lightness
An artist belonging to the surrealist
movement in the 1920's and later, Medium (plural = media)
whose art was inspired by dreams The material on or from which an
and the subconscious. artist chooses to make a work of
art, for example - canvas and oil
pain, marble, engraving, video, or In perspective systems, imaginary
architecture sightlines extending from forms to
the vanishing point
Cross-hatching
The use of overlapping parallel One-point perspective
lines to convey darkness or A perspective system with a single
lightness vanishing point on the horizon

Shape Three-point Perspective

The two-dimensional area the A perspective system with two
boundaries of which are defined by vanishing points on the horizon and
lines or suggested by changes in one not on the horizon
color or value
Foreshortening
Picture Plane A perspective technique that
The surface of a painting or depicts a form at a very oblique
drawing (often dramatic) angle to the viewer
in order to show depth in space
Ryhthm
The regular or ordered repetition of Woodcut
elements in the work A print created from an incised
piece of wood
Linear Perspective
A system using converging Color
imaginary sight lines to create the The opitcal effect caused when
illusion of depth reflected white light of the spectrum
is divided into a separate
Actual Line wavelength
A continuous, uninterrupted line
Primary Colors
Implied Line Three basic colors from which all
A line not actually drawn but others are derived
suggested by elements in the work
Secondary Colors
Vanishing Point Colors mixed from two primary
The point in a work of art at which colors
imaginary sight lines appear to
converge, suggesting depth Pigment
The colored material used in
Orthogonals paints. Often made from finely
ground materials
Hue language to give a work an
General classification of a color; identifiable form of visual
the distinctive characteristics of a expression
color as seen in the visible
spectrum, such as green or red Saturation
The degree of purity of a color
Value
The lightness or darkness of a Plane
plane or area A flat surface

Tint Fauves
A color lighter in value than its A group of early twentieth-century
purest state french artists whose paintings used
vivid colors. From the french fauve,
Neutral wild beast
Colors (such as blacks, whites,
grays, and dull gray-browns) made Analogous Colors
by mixing complementary hues Colors adjacent to each other on
the color wheel
Monochromatic
Having one or more values of one Impressionism
color A late nineteenth-century painting
style conveying the impression of
Cubism the effects of light
A twentieth-century art movement
that favored a new perspective Temperature
emphasizing geometric forms A description of color based on our
associations with warmth or
Collage coolness
A work of art assembled by gluing
materials, often paper, onto a Ground
surface. From the french coller, to The surface or background onto
glue. which an artist paints or draws

Palette Pointillism
The range of colors used by an A late nineteenth-century painting
artist style using short strokes or points
of differing colors that optically
Style combine to form new perceived
A characteristic way in which an colors
artist or group of artists uses visual