1. VOCABULARY POWER POINT

2. VOCABULARY NO. 1 ARTIST – A person who uses imagination and skill to communicate ideas in visual form. SIX ARTISTIC TERMS – line, color, shape form, space and texture. HUE – A color’s Name. (Red).

3. VOCABULARY NO. 2 PORTFOLIO – Provides evidence of student’s learning over time. (Collection packet for artwork.) STILL-LIFE – A painting or drawing of non-living items. COLOR – What the eye sees when light is reflected off an object. INTENSITY – Brightness or dullness of a hue.

4. VOCABULARY NO.3 UNITY – The arrangement of elements and principles of art to create a feeling of completeness or wholeness. PIGMENT – Is a finely ground powder that gives paint its color: (Hue). BINDER – Is a liquid that holds together the grains of pigment.

5. VOCABULARY NO.4 SHAPE – An area clearly set off by one or more of the other five visual elements. Shapes have length and depth, but are flat. TEXTURE – How things feel or look as though they might feel if touched. FORM – Refers to an object with three dimensions.

6. VOCABULARY NO.5 LINE – is the path of a dot through space. SPACE – is the distance of area between, around, above, below and within things. VALUE – is the lightness or darkness of a hue.

7. VOCABULARY NO.6 BALANCE – is a principle of art concerned with arranging the elements so that no one part of the work overpowers, or seems heavier than, any other part. MOVEMENT – is the principle of art that leads the viewer to sense action in a work, or it can be the path the viewer’s eye follows through the work. RHYTHM – is the repetition of an element of art to make a work seem active

8. VOCABULARY NO.7 EMPHASIS – is making an element or an object in a work stand out. PICTURE PLANE – is the flat surface of a painting or drawing. UNITY – is the arrangement of elements and principles of art to create a feeling of completeness or wholeness.

9. VOCABULARY NO.9 CONE – a 3 dimensional triangle. CUBE – is a 3 dimensional square. CYLINDER – can be created from a rectangle. SPHERE – is a 3 dimensional circle.

10. VOCABULARY NO.10 FOCAL POINT – a point in the piece of artwork where everything is drawn in proportion from. HORIZON – the midline of a piece of art. Usually where the focal point sits. LANDSCAPE – a drawing or painting of mountains, trees or other natural scenery.

11. VOCABULARY NO.11 PORTRAIT – drawing of painting of a person. SHADE – when black is added to a hue it is called a shade. TINT – When white is added to a hue. STROKE – is how an artist makes a mark on the artwork.

12. VOCABULARY NO.12 ABSTRACT – is having a recognizable subject that is shown in an unrealistic manner. CITYSCAPE – artwork focusing on large buildings or objects found in cities. SEASCAPE – artwork focusing on oceans or objects in or around it.

13. VOCABULARY NO.13 COMPOSITION – the way principles are used to organize the elements of art. STUDY – used to plan paintings or other large projects. CONTENT – the message, idea or feeling expressed by a work of art.

14. VOCABULARY NO.14 AESTHETICS – is the study of the nature and the beauty of art. SUBJECT – is the image views can easily identify. ORGANIC SHAPES – shapes found throughout nature.

15. VOCABULARY NO.15 NEGATIVE SPACE – empty spaces between the shapes or forms in two and three dimensional art. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE – the lines or buildings, roads and similar objects are slanted. OVERLAPPING – Nearer shapes and forms over lap, or partly cover, those meant to appear farther away.

16. VOCABULARY NO.16 PLACEMENT – distant objects are placed higher up in the picture. Closer ones are placed lower down in the picture. DETAIL – More detail is added to closer objects and less detail is added to those in the distance. SIZE – distant objects are made smaller and objects closer are made larger.

17. VOCABULARY NO.17 HANDBUILDING: Methods include pinching, modeling, coiling, and slab building. PINCHING: Pinching the clay into a small pot. MODELING: Sculpting a piece of clay into an object. COILING: Long rope shaped pieces of clay wrapped on top of each other usually to make some kind of pot.

18. VOCABULARY NO. 18 Slab: Method of building clay from a flat piece (slab) of clay. Slip: Watered down clay, used like glue to put pieces of clay together. Scoring: Roughing up the edges of the clay seams before applying slip. Incised: Scratched into the surface of the clay.

19. VOCABULARY NO.19 GREENWARE: Unfired clay. BISQUEWARE: Baked or fired clay. GLAZE: Liquid glass paint for ceramics. LEATHER HARD: Partially dry clay that feels like leather. WEDGING: Making sure there are no air bubbles in the clay.

20. VOCABULARY NO.20 KILN: A furnace or an oven built of heat resistant materials for firing pottery or sculpture. MOLD: Any form that can be used to shape fluid or plastic substances. SGRAFFITO: Decoration of pottery made by scratching through a layer of colored clay slip to the differently colored clay body underneath.