Visual Arts Vocabulary

Goya was a painter and ________ . Some of his famous prints are in the Prado Museum.

• Printmarker

• Sculptor

• Designer

• Potter

This is a ___________ sculpture.

• Stone

• Wooden

• Woolly

• Sand

This is a huge __________ carving

• Stone

• Sand

• Gold

• Wooden

Banksy is the most famous ________ artist.

• Graffiti

• Portrait

• Drawing

• Landscape

Which vocabulary word means the basic parts in a work of art? Examples: line, color, shape/form, texture, space.

• essential

• elements of art

• distill

• focusing question

Which definition matches this vocabulary art word:

Focal Point

• Where the artist wants you to look in visual art

• colors used in art

• figure

artist choice, including decisions about value, contrast, and whether to use warm or cool colors

• compostion

• color

• focal point

• line

The area of a picture that is closest to the viewer.

• distinctive

• curator

• foreground

• rhythmic

size and arrangement of figures and objects in a piece of visual art

• focal point

• composition

• figure

• object

nonliving subject of a painting or visual image

• inference

• line

• figure

• object