1. The Visual Vocabulary of Art (Chapter 2)
Media and Processes

2. Art Media- materials used to create art
Art Process- action involved in making art
Aesthetics-branch of philosophy used to identify criteria used to understand, judge and defend judgements
Art Critics- examine works of art
Art Historians- seek objective facts about artists

3. Elements of Art Basic components or building blocks
Artists use these to express ideas

4. intensity (brightness)
Color
Hue (name)
intensity (brightness)
value (light and dark)

5. Value
a range from highlight (the brightest highlight being white) to shadow (the darkest being black) and all of the tones in between.

6. Line
Continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point

7. Texture
The way things feel or look as if they might feel

8. Shape
Shapes are everywhere. More common ones are given names such as circle or square. There are an infinite amount of shape possibilities and combinations.

9. Form
Forms are often called the "three-dimensional shapes". Unlike flat, two-dimensional areas, Forms are represented as "three-dimensional".
3D objects
2 types of form:
Mass- outside size and bulk of form
Volume-space within the form

10. Space
Distance or area between, around, above, below or within a work of art
Can be either 2D or 3D