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Art Terms for Beginners

The document lists various terms used in art and their definitions. It includes terms like palette, recycled art, art gallery, museum, mural, donkey, sketch pad, primary colors, 2d and 3d shapes, terracotta, origami, art studio, sculptor, collage, texture, portrait, curator, exhibition, color wheel, model, pastel, artefact, sketch, costume, still life drawing, nature drawing, and excavation. It also provides definitions for some of these terms like palette being a flat plastic used for mixing colors, art gallery being where artworks are sold, and museum being where old artworks are kept.

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Art Terms for Beginners

The document lists various terms used in art and their definitions. It includes terms like palette, recycled art, art gallery, museum, mural, donkey, sketch pad, primary colors, 2d and 3d shapes, terracotta, origami, art studio, sculptor, collage, texture, portrait, curator, exhibition, color wheel, model, pastel, artefact, sketch, costume, still life drawing, nature drawing, and excavation. It also provides definitions for some of these terms like palette being a flat plastic used for mixing colors, art gallery being where artworks are sold, and museum being where old artworks are kept.

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  • Art Vocabulary: Defines vocabulary related to art and creative terminology, focusing on tools, techniques, and components.
  • Art Exercises: Provides exercises and multiple-choice questions to apply art terminology and assess understanding.

Name : ________________________________________ ART WORDS CULTURAL & CREATIVE ART

Art words are the special words or vocabularies that are used for communication in the world of art. They are also
called Art terminologies or Art Registers.

1. Pallet : a flat plastic used for mixing colours when painting.

2. Recycled : art made from trash

3. Art Gallery : where artworks are sold

4. Museum : where old artworks are kept.

5. Mural : a design done on the wall

6. Donkey : the bench used for sitting and holding the drawing board when drawing .

7. Sketch pad : Drawing book.

8. Fabric : cloth

9. Silhouette : shadow of an object

10. Primary colours : colours that cannot be gotten by the mixture of colours i.e Yellow, Red and Blue.

11. 2d shapes : flat shapes e.g circle, triangle, square etc.

12. 3d shapes : shapes in the round e.g cube, cuboid, cone etc.

13. Terracotta : fired clay.

14. Origami : Folding of paper to make images.

15. Art studio : Art room.

16. Sculptor : The artist that specializes in the making of statues and images.

17. Collage : design made with pieces of paper.

18. Texture : Smoothness or roughness of an art material.

19. Portrait : the drawing of a person to resemblance.

20. Curator : Art gallery manager.

21. Exhibition : Display of Artwork

22. Recycled Art : Artwork made from trash.

23. Colour wheel : Diagram that shows how colours are mixed.

24. Model: A person who poses to be drawn.

25. Pastel : coloured chalk used for painting.

26. Artefact : Old artwork


27. Sketch : Quick drawing

28. Costume : What actors and actresses put on when acting a drama.

29. Still life drawing : Drawing of lifeless or man made objects

30. Nature drawing : Drawing of objects of nature or living things.

31. Excarvation : Digging up of buried artworks

32. Script :

21. The pattern repeated on a cloth to design it is called (a) Motif (b) Painter (c) Ceramist (d) Textile
designer

22. _______________ is a design done on cloth with thread. (a) Embroidery (b) () ()

23. Old or ancient artworks are called (a) Artefact (b) (c) (d)

24. ___________ is the manager of an Art gallery.(a) (b) Curator (c) (d)

25. The digging up of buried artworks is called (a) (b) Excarvation (c)(d)

26. Mosaic

27. What actors and actresses wear when acting is called (a) (b) (c) (d)Costume

28. ______________ is another word for actors and actresses (a) (b) (c) Cast (d)

29. ___________ is the write up that is acted (a)(b)(c)(d)Script

30. The writer of a play is called _____________ (a) a Play writer (b) an Author (c)Playwright (d) a
Director

31. Fired clay is known as ()(b)Terracotta (c) (d)

32. Another name for Art word is () Art and designs ()Art material ()Art terminology ()Art and craft

33. the flat wood on which paper is fixed for drawing

34.

35. ____________ is a Cool colour

36. Textile designer is the artist who design clothes.


37. Spatula is a wooden tool used by to shape clay work

38. Profile : side view of a person

39. Texture : the smoothness or roughness of a surface

40. Pose : To take position in order to be drawn or painted

41. ___________ is not a warm colour

42. Model : The person who pose for the artist to draw.

43. ______________ are colours derived from the mixture of two primary colours of equal quantity.

44. Recycled Art : Art made from trash.

45.The following are secondary colours except

46. Canvas : is a wooden frame over which a thick cloth is stretched, to make a flat surface for painting

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