Art Appreciation Chapter 5 Part 1 Vocab

Tint

A color altered by adding a different color in order to make it look lighter. Example: adding white to red to make pink

Hue

A color found on the color wheel

Shade

A colored altered by adding a different color to make it look darker. Example: adding black to red to make maroon

Intensity

A function of a color's relative brightness or dullness.

Medium

A liquid added to paint that makes it easier to manipulate

Pointillism

A style of painting that consists of small points of colors in belief that they'll mix together in the viewer's eyes. Example: a dot of blue next to a dot of yellow might be viewed as green

Atmospheric Perspective

A technique used in landscape painting to create a three dimensional look onto a two dimensional surface. It includes making objects smaller and less distinct to make it look farther away

Aerial Perspective

A technique used in landscape painting to make objects look more distant by making it more blue or cool in color.

Palette

A thin board with a thumb hole at one end that is used to mix and extend the amount of colors that an artist has

Colorwheel

An arrangement of hues in a circle based on different color theories

Secondary Colors

Colors created by two primary colors. Example: orange, green, and violet

Tenebrism

Meaning murky. It doesn't connect to chiaroscuro in art

Analogous Colors

Pairs of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Example: yellow and orange

Complementary Colors

Pairs of colors that are opposite to each other on the color wheel. Example: red and green

Spectrum

The colors of visible light when sunlight passes through a prism

Primary Colors

The colors that that can't be created from different colors. Examples: yellow, blue, and red

Core of Shadow

The darkest area of an object in chiaroscuro

Saturation

The intensity of a color in an artwork

Intermediate Colors

The range of colors between a primary color and the neighboring secondary color. Example: yellow-green

Cast Shadow

The shadow castes an object which is darker than the shadowed surface in chiaroscuro

Highlights

The spot or spots of highest color value in a picture

Additive Process

The theory that when all the different hues of colored light are mixed, it'll be white. And every time you add a color, it'll get closer to the sense of white

Subtractive Process

The theory that when all the different hues of different colored pigment are mixed, it'll create black. And every time you add a color, it'll get closer to the sense of black

Shadow

The unlighted surface of an object in artwork

Hatching

The use of closely spaced lines that create the effect of shadowing. The closer the lines, the darker the area looks

Temperature

The warmth or coolness of a hue. Example: warm colors are yellow, orange, and red while cool colors are green, blue, and violet

Cross Hatching

Two or more sets of closely spaced lines that overlap and are angled to one another. Used to create a sense of three dimensional space

Modeling

Used in drawing, painting, and printmaking to create a three dimensional look by adding light and shade by using hatching

Simultaneous Contrast

When complementary colors are placed side by side which give them the sense that they are brighter and more intense than when they're isolated