Subject Language Key words, Art and Design, all levels

Four full pages (A4, word, easy to edit/add to) of subject language. As well as the same resource in Publisher ready presented so you can simply print it off.

This can be used from KS1 through to A Level as words can be removed to simplify the resource for lower years. I use this with A Level students.

An example of the file is as follows;

ABSTRACT:
Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual realistic but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effects

ASYMMETRICAL:
Something which is unbalanced or has unequally proportioned elements. The opposite to symmetrical.

ATMOSPHERE:
The pervading tone or mood of a place, situation, or creative work

BALANCE:
This deals with the visual harmony within a piece of work

COLOUR:

Primary Colours red, blue, yellow
Secondary Colours green, orange, purple
Complementary Colours blue/orange, red/green, yellow/purple
Harmonic colours Colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel

Warm Colours those which have a lot of red, orange
and yellow in them
Cold Colours those which have a lot of blue, grey,
white in them

Tint is when WHITE is added to a colour i.e.
white added to red to create pink
Shade is when a dark colour such as
BLACK/DARK BLUE etc, has been
added to a colour to darken it

Monochrome An image using only white and one colour (usually black)
Saturation How bright a colour appears (the low the saturation the duller the colour, the lowest saturation is black and white), a related term could be neon
Muted Grayed, dulled or desaturated

Some related subject language could be; bold, bright, vibrant, dull, subtle, contrasting, earthy, natural.