Keywords used in Senior Practical Art:
Abstract – A subject can be abstracted or an artist may work directly in an abstract manner removed from nature.
Acrylic Paint – Mostly used at school washes out with water and has more body than water colour.
Aerial Perspective – Where the sky gets lighter closer to the earth creating a sense of distances.
Aesthetic – A type of beauty relating to an art movement.
Atmospheric Perspective – Where the atmosphere darkens colours and reduces clarity as objects become distant.
Antiquity – Classical times.
Appropriation – To take something and use if for another purpose.
Artist licence – The ability to break the rules because you are the creator and says what goes.
Artist license - The artist’s ability to break the rules for creative purposes.
Artist Model – Examples elements as a starting point for investigation.
Artist Palette – Is what artists mix their paints on. It also refers to the colours an artist uses.
Asymmetry - Asymmetry is something that is not symmetrical but still is nicely balanced.
Bracketing – An exposure each side of the correct light reading to provide the opportunity of selecting the best one later.
Classic – Something refined to its simplest perfect form as found in classical sculpture.
Context – The situation around us that creates what we value at the time.
Conventions – Rules used to make a work such as how paint is applied.
Depth of field – The amount that is in focus depends on the f-stop.
Dry brush – To have very little paint on the brush and scrape it across the surface.
Figure ground relationship - The relationship that the object has with the background.
Formal elements – Line, texture, shape opposed to a conceptual idea.
Freud – developed psychoanalysis to provide new ways of seeing the world.
F-stops – The aperture or size of the opening on a camera lens.
Genre – A type of approach to art with its own set of rules.
Golden Section – A pattern found through how nature grows to create a perfect ratio.
Jargon – Words used specific to topics such as art / geography / maths etc.
Leading lines - Lead to key subject matter within a picture plane.
Medium – The type of material used to make Art. Also refers to the binder to which pigment is added.
Negative space – The shape of the space around an object created by the object and frame.
Organic line – Opposite of geomatic line. Nature versus man made.
Orthogonal lines – lead to the vanishing point to create perspective.
Platonic ideal – Reality is only a reflection of the real world of ideas.
Primitive – A raw approach to materials.
Renaissance - The type of period the art was created in the culture it was based around.
Renaissance – To renew by looking back.
Rule of thirds - These are the guidelines to produce balance with the negative space in an image.
Serendipity - Happy accidents that benefit you while doing, so in a way it is a happy accident. This results in work being more interesting and less contrived. To produce unexpected resolutions.