SECOND GRADE ART & SOL
VOCABULARY
Familiarizing the student with the following art-related
vocabulary will help in preparing them for the tour.
Definitions are provided for the benefit of the teacher.
GENERAL TERMS
museum |
a place where special objects are
cared for and displayed |
gallery |
a room inside a museum in which art is displayed |
KINDS OF ART
portrait |
a painting, sculpture, or drawing of a person or group of people who are identifiable. |
|
self-portrait |
a painting or drawing that an artist does of
him/herself. |
landscape |
a painting or drawing of natural subjects
such as mountains, trees and sky |
seascape |
a painting or drawing in which there is a
lake or ocean |
cityscape |
a painting or drawing with a view of a city
or town |
genre |
a type of image that depicts scenes or events
from everyday life, also sometimes called a narrative image |
abstraction |
the imagery in the work of art may not
look like it represents anything from the real world |
still life |
a picture consisting predominately of a grouping of
inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers |
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naïve art |
works usually done by a self-taught artist |
ELEMENTS OF ART:
COLOR has three properties: hue, intensity,
and value. Colors can appear to have character because
we associate certain ideas with certain colors. Colors
are also affected by light, and are affected by their
relationship with or placement in relationship to other
colors.
• PRIMARY COLORS= red, yellow, blue
• SECONDARY COLORS = green, orange, violet
orange = red + yellow
green = blue + yellow
violet = blue + red
LINE refers to the continuous mark
made on a surface by a moving point.
• It can be two-dimensional, implied (the boundary
between
two colors, textures, etc.), or appear to be three-dimensional.
• Lines can suggest ideas such as calm, jarring,
gentle or energetic.
• Lines may be curved, straight, wide, thin,
zigzag, diagonal, vertical, or horizontal.
SHAPE is an enclosed space defined
and determined by other elements such as line, color,
and texture.
• Shapes can be geometric (square, circle, triangle,
rectangle) or irregular (often called organic, as
found in nature).
• Shapes can be representational or non-representational.
• Shapes can be created in the negative space
around and between positive spaces.
TEXTURE is the surface quality or
“feel” of an object, and can be smooth,
rough, hard, soft, bumpy or sticky.
• Texture may be tactile (touchable) or visual
(implied).
