AP GRAPHICS – 2D STUDIO
ART
MRS. DAWN EGAN
RM. 754
DAWN.EGAN@LASSENHIGH.ORG
4 8 Wo r d s - Vo c a b u l a r y
G o a l s f o r t h e A s s i g n m e n t : Please reflect on the following
vocabulary, write one complete sentence for each. These are good words to use in your
upcoming essay.
Critique
Landscape
Line
Unity
Repetition
Composition
Photo Montage
Shape
Variety
Proportion/Scale
Hierarchy
Symmetry
Body of Work
Aperture
Color
Balance
Figure/Ground
Relationship
Distortion
Still Life
Transparency
Modularity
Perspective
Asymmetry
Gestalt Principles (at
least 5)
Interpret
Evidence
Value
Emphasis
Shutter
speed
Contact
Sheet
Grid
Halftone
Levels
Backlight
Texture
Contrast
Framing
Posterization
Portrait
Front lighting
Space
Rhythm
Gestalt
Principles
Mosaic
Design
Analogous
Vector
Tertiary
1. Critique - a detailed analysis and assessment of something, especially a literary,
philosophical, or political theory
2. Composition - the term given to a complete work of art and, more specifically, to
the way in which all its elements work together to produce an overall effect.
3. Body of Work - the production of a single artist, writer, or composer.
4. Interpret - Interpretation in art refers to the attribution of meaning to a work.
5. Levels - The Four Levels of Meaning: Formal, Subject, Context, and Iconography
6. Portrait - Portrait artworks can be anything from a sculpture to a painting or
photography that specifically contains a face.
7. Landscape - the depiction of natural scenery in art.
8. Photo Montage - a collage constructed from photographs.
9. Aperture - a hole that allows light
10. Evidence - Art has no "evidence": it is an expression carried out through the
materials chosen by the artists
11. Backlight - In lighting design, backlighting is the process of illuminating the
subject from the back.
12. Front Lighting - a type of lighting that places the main light source directly in
front of the subject
13. Line - an identifiable path created by a point moving in space.
14. Shape - An element of art that is two-dimensional, flat, or limited to height and
width.
15. Color - the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is
reflected back to the eye
16. Value - defines how light or dark a given color or hue can be.
17. Texture - the perceived surface quality of a work of art.
18. Space - a feeling of depth or three dimensions
19. Unity - how different elements of an artwork or design work come together and
create a sense of wholeness.
20. Variety - how artists and designers add complexity to their work using visual
elements.
21. Balance - the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and
space.
22. Emphasis - used to attract a viewer's attention to the focal point. point, or main
subject, of an artwork.
23. Contrast - the juxtaposition of difference, used to intensify the properties within
the work.
24. Rhythm - the movement within a piece of art that helps the eye travel through
the to a point of focus.
25. Repetition - repeating a single element many times in a design
26. Proportion/Scale - Proportion describes the relationship between the dimensions
of different elements and an overall composition.
27. Figure/Ground Relationship - the visual relationship between a composition's
foreground and background, between the object and the space it occupies.
28. Shutter Speed - the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes
29. Framing - the presentation of visual elements in an image, especially the
placement of the subject in relation to other objects.
30. Gestalt Principles - a theory about perception, holds that the whole is more than
the sum of its parts
31. Hierarchy - the control of visual information in an arrangement or presentation to
imply importance.
32. Symmetry - a very formal type of balance consisting of a mirroring of portions of an
image.
33. Distortion - any change in the size, shape, or visual character of a form as a means of
conveying an idea, enhancing visual impact, or enhancing expression
34. Contact Sheet - A standard size sheet of photographic paper (typically 8 × 10 inches)
used to make a contact print of all images on a roll of photographic film.
35. Posterization - a process for producing a poster like, high-contrast color reproduction
from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
36. Mosaic - a picture made up of small parts which are traditionally tiny tiles made out of
terracotta, pieces of glass, ceramics or marble and usually inlayed into floors and walls.
37. Still Life - a work of art that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made
world.
38. Transparency - the quality of being able to see through (or partially see through) one or
more layers in an artwork.
39. Modularity - a work of art with constituent parts that can be moved, separated and
recombined.
40. Grid - a network of uniformly spaced horizontal and perpendicular lines
41. Design - a method of human expression that follows a system of highly developed
procedures in order to imbue objects, performances, and experiences with significance.
42. Analogous - they correspond to each other or are similar in some way
43. Perspective - the representation of three-dimensional objects or spaces in two
dimensional artworks.
44. Asymmetry - occurs when you have different visual images on either side of a design,
and yet the image still seems balanced.
45. Gestalt Principles - similarity, continuation, closure, proximity, figure/ground, and
symmetry & order
46. Halftone - a technique of breaking up an image into a series of dots so as to reproduce the
full tone range of a photograph or tone art work.
47. Vector - Vector artwork is art that's made up of vector graphics. These graphics are
points, lines, curves and shapes that are based on mathematical formulas. When you scale
a vector image file, it isn't low resolution and there's no loss of quality, so it can be sized
to however large or small you need it to be.
48. Tertiary - Tertiary colors, also known as intermediate colors, are made by combining
equal parts of primary and secondary colors. Sometimes they're named after the two
colors that created them, such as blue-green or orange-red, and sometimes they're called
by their own name.