AAVTC: Intro to Visual Arts Vocabulary

Rule of Thirds

• A technique for creating symmetry in photography

• An artistic concept that involves dividing an image into nine equal blocks

• A method for adjusting color balance in images

• A guideline for selecting camera angles

Applied Art

• Art that is primarily focused on aesthetics

• Art which exists to serve a primary purpose other than beauty

• Art that is created for personal expression

• Art that is only found in museums

Relief Sculpture

• A type of sculpture where figures are fully detached from the background

• Sculpture in which carved figures protrude from a flat background plane

• A painting technique that uses three-dimensional effects

• A form of sculpture that is entirely flat and two-dimensional

Image Resolution

• The term for the clarity of an image

• The number of pixels in an image

• The size of an image file

• The color depth of an image

Sans Serif Font

• Font with decorative strokes at the ends of letters

• Font without crosslines at the upper and lower ends of letters

• Font that is only used for headings

• Font that is always italicized

Headroom

• Space in a photograph above a subject

• The amount of light in a photograph

• The distance between the subject and the camera

• The angle of the camera shot

Aesthetics

• Principles concerned with beauty

• A study of colors and shapes

• A branch of philosophy dealing with ethics

• The science of sound and music

Digital Media

• Publications produced and distributed using computers

• Traditional print media such as newspapers and magazines

• Audio and video content created for television

• Handwritten documents and letters

Proofing

• Process of creating a trial image or print to check for mistakes

• A method of editing text for grammar and spelling

• A technique for enhancing image resolution

• A strategy for organizing digital files

Lead Space

• Space included in the direction a subject is looking or moving

• Space that is not visible to the subject

• Space that is behind the subject

• Space that is irrelevant to the subject's movement