Anna Esteban, Llicència d'estudis a St Helens, 2005-06

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


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".