ART TERMS

ABSTRACT Abstract Art is based on designing with colours, lines, shapes and textures without trying

to make it look like something in the real world

Batik

The word Batik comes from two words, the Javanese word amba, to write and the

Malay word for dot, titik. Ambatik was then shortened to Batik. The design is applied

with hot wax using a tjanting tool. Areas are then coloured with inks

Cartoon

A cartoon first meant the drawing done in preparation for a painting. These days it

may mean a comic strip or a funny caricature

Da Vinci Herge Steadman

Collage

Creating a design by cutting or tearing shapes from paper or other materials and

sticking them to a surface

Henri Matisse Max Ernst

Colour

Colours are split into two main groups:

Primary colours,

RED , YELLOW, BLUE

Secondary colours,

GREEN, ORANGE, PURPLE

Secondary colours are made by mixing primary colours together .

Colour Wheel

COMPOSITION

The way you organise the different parts of your drawing into a particular layout or design.

Cross hatching

Using a series of closely spaced straight lines overlaid with lines in another direction to suggest tone/shading. The more lines used, the darker the tone.

Morandi

Evaluation

An assessment at the end of a project to show how successful you have

been, problems you have found and how you overcame them.

Eye level

The horizontal line in a drawing which is your line of vision and shows the position from

which your viewpoint is taken.

Foreshortening

Using perspective to show an obvious change in scale to an object which juts out

towards you.

Form

Peter Paul Rubens

Landscape

Samuel Palmer Hiroshige Paul Cezanne

Line

Line is used to suggest the shape of something. It can also be used to add

details, tone or pattern or texture to a drawing

Bridget Riley Henri Matisse Paul Klee

Media

The drawing materials you use such as pencil,

charcoal, oil pastel, chalk etc.

Monochrome

An image made with a range of tones of one colour.

Andy Warhol Claude Monet Pablo Picasso

Objective drawing

A drawing which tries to show the true likeness of something.

Leonardo Da Vinci Albrecht Durer Vincent Van Gogh

Outline

Lines which show just the shape of something with no other detail.

Pattern

Pattern is a decorative design upon a surface

Celtic pattern Gustav Klimt Bridget Riley

Perspective

A way of drawing to suggest three dimensional form.

Portraits

Romano-Egyptian Lucien Freud Francis Bacon

Proportion

The size of one object in a drawing in relation to the others. It can also mean the size of one part of an object in compared to its other parts.

Self portrait

A portrait done by the artist of themselves.

Vincent Van Gogh Salvador Dali Picasso

Shape

George Braque Kazimir Malevich Robert Delaunay

Space

The space between and around objects and images

Hokusai Georges Seurat

Still life

Subjective work

An image which shows your personal feelings, using imagination rather than trying to show something as it is.

Marc Chagall William Blake

Texture

Texture is the amount of roughness or smoothness on a surface.

Vincent Van Gogh Jackson Pollock

Tone

The shade of a colour from light to dark.

Tone can give form to a shape and make it look three dimensional.

Edgar Degas Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Rembrandt

Vanishing point

Lines used in perspective meet at a point on the horizon/eye level called the vanishing

point.