Art & SOL: Grade 2
Vocabulary
Familiarizing the student with the following art-related vocabulary will help in preparing them for the tour. Definitions are provided for the benefit of the teacher.
GENERAL TERMS
| museum | a place where special objects are cared for and displayed |
| gallery | a room inside a museum in which art is displayed |
KINDS OF ART
| portrait | a painting, sculpture, or drawing of a person or group of people who are identifiable. |
| self-portrait | a painting or drawing that an artist does of him/herself. |
| landscape | a painting or drawing of natural subjects such as mountains, trees and sky |
| seascape | a painting or drawing in which there is a lake or ocean |
| cityscape | a painting or drawing with a view of a city or town |
| genre | a type of image that depicts scenes or events from everyday life, also sometimes called a narrative image |
| abstraction | the imagery in the work of art may not look like it represents anything from the real world |
| still life | a picture consisting predominately of a grouping of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers |
| naïve art | works usually done by a self-taught artist |
ELEMENTS OF ART
COLOR has three properties: hue, intensity, and value. Colors can appear to have character because we associate certain ideas with certain colors. Colors are also affected by light, and are affected by their relationship with or placement in relationship to other colors.
• PRIMARY COLORS= red, yellow, blue
• SECONDARY COLORS = green, orange, violet
orange = red + yellow
green = blue + yellow
violet = blue + red
LINE refers to the continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.
• It can be two-dimensional, implied (the boundary between two colors, textures, etc.), or appear to be three-dimensional.
• Lines can suggest ideas such as calm, jarring, gentle or energetic.
• Lines may be curved, straight, wide, thin, zigzag, diagonal, vertical, or horizontal.
SHAPE is an enclosed space defined and determined by other elements such as line, color, and texture.
• Shapes can be geometric (square, circle, triangle, rectangle) or irregular (often called organic, as found in nature).
• Shapes can be representational or non-representational.
• Shapes can be created in the negative space around and between positive spaces.
TEXTURE is the surface quality or “feel” of an object, and can be smooth, rough, hard, soft, bumpy or sticky.
• Texture may be tactile (touchable) or visual (implied).
