1. Introduction
2. Working in St Helens, England
3. Lesson Plans
4. Conclusions
5. Bibliography
6. Resources
6.1
Flashcards
6.2
Presentations
6.3 Web pages
6.4 Glossary
6.5 Annexes
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Glossary
People use a lot of
specialist words to talk about art. This glossary explains some of the
words you will find in this project.
- 2-D or
two-dimensional - things which look flat. For example, a square
is a 2-D shape.
- 3-D or
three-dimensional - art which look or are solid. For example, a
cube is a 3-D shape.
- Abstract art
- art which does not mirror real people or things, but is an
arrangement of shapes and colours. Art does not necessarily show
things as we see in real life.
- Acrylic
paints - paints make of chemicals.
- Action
painting - a way of painting by splashing and dripping with
energetic movements. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock.
- Advertising - words and
pictures that try to persuade you to buy something.
- Art -
things made to be looked at, especially paintings and sculptures. It
can also be used to describe anything creative, including music and
poetry.
- Art movement
- a group of artist who work together and share ideas, and often
hold joint exhibitions.
- Art Nouveau
- an art and design movement of the 1890s, known for flowery,
decorative patterns, as in the work of Gustav Klimt.
- Balance -
the feeling when parts of a work fit well together.
- Blend -
to mix together.
- Canvas -
rough cloth used for paintings on, usually stretched over a wooden
frame.
- Caricature
- a picture of a person that exaggerate their features to make
people laugh.
- Cartoon -
a drawing made to make people laugh.
- Carving -
something cut into hard materials such as stone or wood.
- Cold colours
- colours which give a sense of cold, such as blue and white. They
can make you feel calm or sad.
- Collages
- pictures made by gluing down bits of paper, cloth or other
materials.
- Colour wheel
- an arrangement of colours which shows how to mix primary
colours to create new colours.
- Complementary
colours - colours which lie opposite each other on the colour
wheel. Seen side by side, they contrast very strongly and make each
other brighter.
- Composition
- the arrangement of all parts of a painting.
- Cubism -
a style which draws attention to the problems involved in making a
flat, 2-D image of a real, 3-D scene. It was develop in Paris around
1907, by Pablo Picasso and his friend Georges Braque.
- Expressionism
- an early 20th-century style develop in Germany. Expressionist
artists use exaggerated shapes and colours to try to convey
feelings, as in the work of Edward Munch.
- Frescos -
wall paintings made by painting onto wet plaster.
- Gouache -
thick, water-based paints.
- Impasto -
very thick paint.
- Impressionism
- an art movement founded in France in the 1870s, by Claude
Monet and his friends. They painted outdoors and develop a sketchy,
"impressionism" style, to try to capture the changing effects of
natural light.
- Kinetic art
- Sculpture that moves.
- Landscape
- a painting of scenery.
- Line - a
continuous mark.
- Logo - a
design, in the form of a word or shape, that represents a product or
company.
- Mood - a
state of mind of feeling, such as joy, peace, pain, anger or
sadness.
- Mosaic -
a picture make up of tiny pieces of stone, clay, glass or marble
fixed in cement.
- Murals -
wall paintings.
- Oil paintings
- paintings using oil paints.
- Oil paints or
oils - slow-drying, oil-based paints.
- Palette -
a board on which an artist mixes paint colours.
- Pastel
drawings - drawings made using pastels.
- Pastels -
soft, coloured crayons.
- Pattern -
repeating shapes or shapes which fit together to make another shape.
- Perspective
- a mathematical way to showing 3-D.
- Pigment -
the colour in paint.
- Pointillism
- a painting technique develop around 1855 by Georges Seurat, using
tiny dots of pure, unmixed colours. Seen from distance the dots seem
to merge, creating the effect of blended colours.
- Pop art -
a mid-20th-century British and American art movement which used
images from pop culture, such as comic strips and adverts. Andy
Warhol was a famous Pop artist.
- Portrait
- an image of a real person.
- Primary
colours - red, yellow and blue. All other colours can be made by
mixing these colours together in different amounts.
- Prints -
pictures made using a carved block or a stencil (a template with
holes cut in it). With a block, the carved area is coated with ink
and pressed against paper. With a stencil, the stencil laid over
paper and spread with ink, so the ink prints through the holes. Both
methods allow artist to make lots of copies of a picture.
- Renaissance
- a period in the 15th and 16th centuries when there were lots
of new discoveries in art and science.
- Romantics
- a group of late 18th and early 19th-century artist, including
Caspar David Fredrich, who were inspired by a love of nature.
- Sculpture
- a statue or 3-D work of art.
- Secondary
colours - orange, green and purple, the colours you get when you
mix two primary colours together.
- Shade - a
colour can be dark, light or anything in between. Black is the
darkest shade and white is the lightest.
- Shape - a
pattern which has a line drawn round the outside.
- Sketch -
a quick drawing.
- Stencil -
a cut out shape.
- Still live
- a picture of flowers or food, or other unmoving objects. The
plural is "still lifes" (not "lives).
- Surrealism
- a 20th-century art movement which used bizarre, dream-like
images. René Magritte and Salvador Dalí were famous Surrealists.
- Symbol -
a shape that stands for something else.
- Tapestry
- a woven picture made to hand on the walls.
- Tempera -
fast-drying, egg-based paints.
- Texture -
the way we respond to a work of art through touch, the surface of a
work of art.
- Tone -
shades of colours from light to dark, or all shades of grey in
between black and white.
- Viewfinder
- is a framing technique to use as a way of encouraging children
to be more selective about what they want to include in their work.
- Warm colours
- colours which give a sense of warmth, such as red or orange. They
can make you feel happy and excited.
- Watercolours
- transparent, water-based paints. They come in tubes or in solid
blocks known as "pans".
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