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AAAL - see American Academy of Arts and Letters
ABC art - See Minimalism
abrade - See abrasive
Abstract Expressionism or abstract expressionism
ACMI - See Art & Craft Materials Institute (ACMI)
addition and additive (as in color mixing and constructed sculpture)
adoration is coming soon
AEP - See Arts Education Partnership
aerugo - See patina
aesthetic experience or æsthetic experience
aesthetic value or æsthetic value
aes ustum - See patina
AIA or American Institute of Architects
Akkadian art - See Mesopotamian art
à la colle - See distemper
album is coming soon
all-over design or allover design
all-over painting or allover painting
altered is coming soon
amateur is coming soon
American Academy of Arts and Letters (AAAL)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
American Luminism and American Luminists - See Luminism or luminism and luminists
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) - See ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials)
American Ten, The - See Ten American Painters or The Ten
American Watercolor Society (AWS)
amethyst is coming soon
Amorite art - See Mesopotamian art
A.N.A. - See National Academy of Design
analogue - See analog
animatronics - See puppet, puppeteer, puppetry
animus - See anima
Annunciation is coming soon
apocryphal is coming soon
appreciate, appreciation, appreciable
aquamedia - See watercolor, acrylic, casein, gouache, and egg tempera
A.R.A. - Associate of the Royal Academy or Royal Academy of Arts (RA), a group of British artists. Also see academy
Aramaean art - See Mesopotamian art
architectural space is coming soon
archival is coming soon
archive is coming soon
Argentine art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Armenian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Arretine ware - See terra sigillata
Art (words beginning with "art")
art - quotes about art, inc. others' definitions
art advocacy - See advocacy
Art & Craft Materials Institute (ACMI)
art appraisal - See appraisal
art auction, art auction house is coming soon
art collective - See collaboration
art curator - See curator
art dealer is coming soon - See gallerist
Art Dealers Association of America
art education, art teaching is coming soon
art elements - See elements of art
art historian is coming soon
articulate, articulated, articulation is coming soon
artistic development - See Stages of Artistic Development
artist-run organizations - See artists' organizations
artists with disabilities - See VSA arts
art language, art linguistics, art word, artword
artlex, artlexicon, artlexical, artlexicographer, artlexicography
Arts Education Partnership (AEP) local, and remote: Arts Education Partnership
art supplies is coming soon
art writer is coming soon
ASCII art is coming soon ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A seven or eight bit code used to represent alphabetical and numeric characters. It is the standard code used for communications between data processing systems and associated equipment.
Associate of the Royal Academy of Art (ARA), a group of British artists is coming soon
Assyrian art - See Mesopotamian art
ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials)
astrology is coming soon - See ideomancy
asymmetry, asymmetrical balance
atmosphere is coming soon
atmospheric perspective - See aerial perspective
aubergine is coming soon
auction - See art auction is coming soon
audiovisual is coming soon
autochrome is coming soon
autograph is coming soon
automatic writing is coming soon
autoriques is coming soon
aware, awareness is coming soon
A.W.S. See American Watercolor Society (AWS)
ax maybe eventually
Babylonian art - See Mesopotamian art
badge (emblematic pin) is coming soon
bakelite is coming soon
balsa wood is coming soon
bandsaw is coming soon
banner is coming soon
Barbadian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
battlement - See crenelation
battle scenes is coming soon
Bay Area / West Coast figuration is coming soon
bead, beaded is coming soon
beaver board is coming soon
bee's-eye view is coming soon
Belgian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
benchmarks See standards
beni-e or beni-ye or benizuri-e or beni-zuri-ye
Berlin Secession - See secession
beryl is coming soon
beton brut is coming soon
bind - See bookbinding
bistre is coming soon
bit-mapped image or bitmap image
black is coming soon
black-on-black is coming soon
black light, also see ultraviolet is coming soon
blackware is coming soon
Blaue Reiter, Der - See Der Blaue Reiter
blazen - See heraldry.
blazon, blazoning
bleach is coming soon
blemish is coming soon
blind - See blind arcade, blindness, etc. is coming soon
blind continuous-line contour drawing - See contour drawing
blindness is coming soon
blind nitch is coming soon
blind window is coming soon
block (printing)
Bloomsbury Group is coming soon
Blue Four - See Blaue Vier
blue is coming soon
Blue Rider - See Der Blaue Reiter
blur is coming soon
body image is coming soon
body language is coming soon
Bohemian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Bolivian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
bolt is coming soon
bone is coming soon
boneless style - See mo-ku is coming soon
Brazilian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
breakfast painting - See ontbijt
bright [type of brush]
bright, brightness - See candela, color, glossy, light, mat, and value
brilliance, brilliant - brightness
bristle - See brush
bristol board or Bristol board
brittleness, brittle is coming soon
broadsheet - See broadside
brown is coming soon
Brücke, Die - See Die Brücke
bruise is coming soon
brush washer - or need? brush cleaner
Buddhist art and Buddhism
buff [the color, not the body-build; and: just short of polish]
bulletin board is coming soon
bulto - See santo
burlap is coming soon
burnish is coming soon
burlesque is coming soon
Bulgarian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
business is coming soon
cadavre exquis - See exquisite corpse
calcium and calcium carbonate
Camden Town Group [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Canadian Group of Painters - See Seven, Group of
candle - See candela
canopy is coming soon
cantharos - See kantharos.
capture device - See scanner
care, concern is coming soon
carpentry is coming soon
cartonnage (mummies) is coming soon
cast iron is coming soon
castle is coming soon
cave painting - See Stone Age
ceiling is coming soon
censor, censorious, censorship
ceremony, ceremonial is coming soon
Chaldean art - See Mesopotamian art
chance - See aleatory and aleatoric
charrette - See charette
chatra - See parasol
Chilian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Chinese ink - See India ink or Indian ink
Chinese white - See zinc white
chirality - See helix
Christian iconography is coming soon
chryselephantine is coming soon
cinema, cinematography, film, movie, motion picture
circular (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)
clarity is coming soon
classicism is coming soon
classification
clock - See horology
cluster pier - See compound pier
cm or cm. - Abbreviation for centimeter
CMYK (cyan magenta yellow black)
coffee-table book is coming soon
cohesion, cohesive is coming soon
coil, and coil method or coil construction
coins - See numismatics and currency
collect, collection, collector
Colombian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
colonialism is coming soon
colorant primaries - see subtractive primaries is coming soon
colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness
color depth - See dynamic range
comic strip, comic book, comix is coming soon
companion piece is coming soon
compare, comparable, comparison
compensation - See rule of compensation
composite order or composite capital
compulsive is coming soon
Conceptualism, conceptual art, Conceptual art
cone, conical (the form)
confettiism is coming soon
congruity - See incongruity
conservation and conserve - See art conservation
conservator - See art conservator
Constructivism or constructivism
contemplate, contemplation is coming soon
continuous-line - See contour drawing
contract is coming soon
Corinthian or Corinthian order
Corinthian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
corrosion, corrosive is coming soon
corrugate, corrugated cardboard
cosmetic, cosmeticize, and cosmetize
Costa Rican art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
cotton is coming soon
crack is coming soon
craftsman, craftsperson is coming soon
cramp - See clamp
crater - See krater
creative process - See creativity
crescent is coming soon
critic - See art critic, art criticism
criticism - See art critic, art criticism
criticize is coming soon
Croatian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
crochet is coming soon
cross is coming soon
cross-hatching - See hatching
Cuban art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
culinary arts is coming soon
cup, cupping is coming soon
curiosity, curious is coming soon
currency - See numismatics and currency
cut, cutter, cutting is coming soon
cutaway view is coming soon
cutlery, tableware is coming soon
Czech art [see artcyclopedia]
daguerreotype or Daguerreotype
damage is coming soon
damascene is coming soon
day-glo colors or DayGlo colors
D.B.A.E. - See discipline-based art education (DBAE)
deacidification is coming soon
dead white males - See DWM
decadence, decadent is coming soon
decay [see ruin] is coming soon
deconstruction, Deconstructivism
decoration, decorative, decorate
deep, deepness, depth of color
defect is coming soon
Delft, Delft blue is coming soon
denote, denotative, denotation is coming soon
deposition is coming soon
descender is coming soon
destroy and destruction - also see loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft
determinism is coming soon
deuteranomaly - See colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness
deuteranopia - See colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness
development - See Stages of Artistic Development
dexterity is coming soon
diaphragm arch - See arch
dicromasy, see colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness
Die Neue Sachlichtkeit [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
diffused is coming soon
digital fingerprint - See watermark
dinos is coming soon
disabilities, artists with - See VSA arts
discipline-based art education (DBAE)
discoloration - See stain
disguise is coming soon
disordered (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)
dispersion, disperse is coming soon
diversity - See different and difference
doodle is coming soon
drafting is coming soon
dragon is coming soon
dragma is coming soon
drama, dramatic - See theater
drip is coming soon
drugs is coming soon
dry-on-dry is coming soon
dry-on-wet is coming soon
durability, durable is coming soon
duration (time something lasts, e.g. video tape, temporary work) is coming soon
dust mask is coming soon
earth art and earthworks
earthworks - See earth art and earthworks
ébauche is coming soon
ebony, ebonize is coming soon
economics in art, and art is coming soon
ecstasy is coming soon
edit is coming soon
Elamite art - See Mesopotamian art
elasticity, elastic is coming soon
elastomer is coming soon
electronic is coming soon
elements of art or elements of design
embellish, embellishment is coming soon
embrittlement is coming soon
encouragement is coming soon - See praise
engineer, engineering is coming soon, see rube g
enlarger is coming soon
ensemble is coming soon ex: Pilon sculp, Louvre, Brancusi endless col
ensign is coming soon
epistyle - See architrave
equestrian statue or equestrian art
esthetics - See aesthetics or æsthetics
ethnography, ethnology is coming soon
Etruria - See Etruscan art
eutaxia, eutaxic - See taxis.
evoke, evocative is coming soon
excellence is coming soon [presumptuously of course]
exotic, exoticism is coming soon
experience is coming soon
experiment, experimental is coming soon
exploded view is coming soon
explore, exploration is coming soon
exponent is coming soon
exposure is coming soon
exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis
eye - See see or seeing or sight
fabric is coming soon
facile is coming soon
factotum is coming soon (see capital letter)
fact is coming soon
facture is coming soon
fade is coming soon
failure is coming soon (we can handle it)
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
fat over lean or fat over thin
felt-tip, felt-tipped marker, felt-tipped pen [see marker] is coming soon
feretory - See reliquary
ferro concrete - See reinforced concrete
Fibonacci Sequence or Fibonacci Numbers
field and field of view
figurine is coming soon
Filipino art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
fillet is coming soon
film - See animation, cellophane, cinema (motion picture), movement, paint, photographic, time, and video
film speed is coming soon
finger paint or fingerpainting
Finnish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
fire - See firing
fireplace - See mantel or mantelpiece
flag, flags of Africa, flags of Asia, flag of Australia, flags of Europe, flags of North America, flags of South America, flags of Oceania, historical flags, US state flags
flake, flaking is coming soon
flare is coming soon
Flemish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
fleur de lis is coming soon
flexible, flexibility is coming soon
floor is coming soon
fluoresce, fluorescence and fluorescent lamps
flying buttress - See buttress
folkways is coming soon
follower is coming soon
folly is coming soon
font
forerunner is coming soon
found
image
found
material
found
object
fourth dimension - time. See four-dimensional.
fourth wall - See theater.
fovea is coming soon
frame-within-a-frame is coming soon
framework is coming soon
freedom of expression - See First Amendment rights
freelance and freelancer
freestanding sculpture or free-standing sculpture
freezing point, see temperature
frisket is coming soon
FSA - See Farm Security Administration (FSA)
ft.
fugitive colors, fugitive pigments
fumigant and fumigation
Fumiste [Fumisme?] is coming soon
fur - See leather and fur.
gabion is coming soon
galley is coming soon
games, gaming, game design is coming soon
gardening
gauffered is coming soon
German Expressionism - See Expressionism
Gesamtkünstwerk or Gesamtkunstwerk
ghost is coming soon
glabela is coming soon
Goldberg - See Rube Goldberg
grace, graceful is coming soon
Grand Tour is coming soon
grapheme is coming soon
grattage is coming soon
gray is coming soon
grease pencil is coming soon
green is coming soon
grey - See gray is coming soon
grotto is coming soon
Guatemalan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
guerrilla art (crop circle making, culture jamming, flash mobs, graffiti, postering, and other subversive art) - See http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Visual_Arts/Thematic/Guerrilla_Art/ is coming soon
guild is coming soon
gum triganth (medium in student tempera) is coming soon
gunmetals is coming soon
gustatory is coming soon
hammers - See ballpein hammer, bush hammer, claw hammer, mallet
hand, by hand, handicraft, handy is coming soon
handbill - See broadside and pamphlet
hardness - See Mohs Scale of Hardness
hardware is coming soon
harmonic sequence or harmonic series
harmony, harmonize, harmonious
hegemeny, non-hegemonic is coming soon
Hermaphrodite See androgyny and androgynous
hermeneutics is coming soon
hermetic is coming soon
hidden compartment is coming soon
high gloss is coming soon
historicism is coming soon
holiday art, holyday art is coming soon
African-American
Kwanzaa
American
Columbus Day
Independence Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Day
Thanksgiving
Christian
Christmas
Easter
Halloween
Presidents' Day
St. Patrick's Day
St. Valentine's Day
Islam
Ramadan [?]
Jewish
Chanukah (Hanukah)
Roshoshana [sp?]
home is coming soon
horticulture (?) - See landscape architecture is coming soon
hot glue, hot glue gun, hot-melt glue gun
house paint is coming soon, ab expr
hyperlink - See hypermedia
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Icelandic art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
iconoduly, iconodulic, iconodule, iconodulist
iconography, iconograph, iconographer
iconophobia, iconophobiac, iconophobic
iconophor, iconophoric, meta-iconophor
idea is coming soon
idol, idolatry, idolize is coming soon
idyllic is coming soon
I.E.P. - Acronym for Individualized Education Program (IEP)
illuminated manuscript - See illumination and manuscript, as in miniatures in medieval illuminated manuscripts
image scanner - See scanner
Imagist school (Ed Paschke, etc.) is coming soon
imago - See imagines
imitation is coming soon
imperforate [philately] is coming soon
impermanence is coming soon
impregnate, as in to put materials into others is coming soon [be careful]
Impressionism . . Americans, Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Morisot
improvise, improvisation is coming soon
inconsistency - See consistency
Indian art (Art of India / East India) [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Indian art (art of Native Americans) See American Indian art
Indian red is coming soon
indigenous peoples is coming soon
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
industrial design is coming soon
influence is coming soon
infrared is coming soon
infrared reflectography (IR) and reflectogram
initial letter - See historiated
innovate, innovative, innovation is coming soon
inquiry is coming soon
inscrutability is coming soon
insensitivity - The opposite of sensitivity
insignia is coming soon
instrument, as in scientific instrument is coming soon
integrity is coming soon [it had better!]
intention is coming soon
interactive, interactivity is coming soon
interference (of light) is coming soon
intermedia - See mixed media or mixed-media
intermodel - See indirect casting
International Council of Museums (ICOM)
International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA)
International style is coming soon
interpret and interpretation - See meaning
intersect is coming soon
intuition, intuitive is coming soon
invent, invention is coming soon
inventory
Iranian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Iraqian art [see artcyclopedia, Islamic art, & Mesopotamian art] is coming soon
Irish art [see artcyclopedia & Celtic art] is coming soon
irrational is coming soon [for no reason]
irregular is coming soon
Islam and Islamic art, and Islamism
isometric is coming soon
Israeli art [see artcyclopedia and Jewish art] is coming soon
Italian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Jamaican art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Janus - see addorsed and ancipital
jigsaw - See hacksaw
journeyman is coming soon
jury, juried is coming soon
justify, justification is coming soon
jute is coming soon
kaolin is coming soon
Kassite art - See Mesopotamian art
keloid - See scarification
kiblah - See qiblah
knot is coming soon
label [see caption] is coming soon
lace is coming soon
lamp black is coming soon
landscapist is coming soon
lathe is coming soon
Latvian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
lavoro di intarsia - See intarsia
layout is coming soon
learn, learning is coming soon
legacy is coming soon
legible, legibility is coming soon
lenticular is coming soon
letter space and letter spacing
life-size - See full-scale
lift [as in lifting color] is coming soon
lightmeter is coming soon
likeness - See appropriation, copy, counterfeit, forgery, homage, mirror, representation, simulacrum, and simulation
lime is coming soon
literature and art, literary is coming soon
Lithuanian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
longtitudinal (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)
loop [as in a video or film loop] is coming soon
loot - See destroy, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon
lost - See destroy, loot, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon
loupe is coming soon
loutrophoros is coming soon
luminance is coming soon
Luminism
or luminism and luminists
luminosity
luminous - See brilliance, candela, color, light, luminosity, and value
Luxembourgeouis art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
m or m. - Abbreviation for meter
macro- is coming soon
macro-lens is coming soon
magic and magick is coming soon
Magic Realism [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
magic wand tool is coming soon
magnesium and magnesium carbonate is coming soon
magnification, magnify is coming soon
mail art is coming soon
main case - mother mold
maintenance is coming soon
makeup - See cosmetic
Maltese art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
marker [see felt-tip] is coming soon
market value or market worth [or see monetary worth or monetary value or price]
marketing art is coming soon
Marxism and Marxist art criticism is coming soon
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
matrix [as in a mold for casting] is coming soon
matt or matte - See mat, matt, or matte
maulstick - See mahlstick
media - The plural form of medium. Also, may refer to mass media. Also see mixed media
medieval - Refers to the Middle Ages
Melinex® by ICI is coming soon
melting point - See temperature
memento more is coming soon
mentally ill artist is coming soon
mercury gilding - See fire gilding
merlon is coming soon
mesolithic - See Stone Age
Mesopotamian art [also see Iraqi art and Islamic art]
meta-cognition or metacognition
Metaphysical Painting (Pittura Metafisica)
Mexican-American art - See Chicano art / Chicana art, and Mesoamerican art
micro- is coming soon
microethnography is coming soon
mineral oil is coming soon
missing - See destroy, loot, lost, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon
mist (vaporous application, as opposed to dot, line, or wash) - is coming soon
ml or ml. - abbreviation for milliliter
mm or mm. - abbreviation for millimeter
mockup is coming soon
Mohs Scale of Hardness or Mohs Scale
mo-ku is coming soon
mold [American spelling] or mould [British spelling]
molding [American spelling] or moulding [British spelling]
mold release - See release agent
Mona Lisa is coming soon
monetary worth [or see market value]
money - See numismatics and currency
morgue, picture morgue is coming soon
morphing - See metamorphosis
motion pictures - See cinema
motivation - See achievement, art criticism, effort, encouragement, enthusiasm, goal, interesting, positive reinforcement, praise, readiness, success, and talent
mould [British spelling] or mold [American spelling]
movement (as in motion), or art movement
Mughal dynasty or Mugal dynasty
mummy is coming soon [from the tomb to your desk]
Munich Secession - See secession
Munsell system is coming soon
museum curator - See curator
museum director - See director
museum docent - See docent
museum preparator - See preparator
museum registrar - See registrar
musical instrument is coming soon
Mylar® by DuPont is coming soon
mystical is coming soon
NAAO or National Association of Artists' Organizations
NAEA - See National Art Education Association (NAEA)
NAIA or National Association of Independent Artists
naif, naïf - See naive art
nail, sizes of common nails, sizes of finishing nails
name and naming is coming soon
naming (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)
naos - See cella
National Art Education Association (NAEA)
National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO)
National Association of Independent Artists (NAIA)
National Education Association (NEA)
local: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and remote: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
local: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and remote: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Native American art or American Indian art
native graphics is coming soon
Nazarenes is coming soon
N.E.A. - See National Education Association (NEA) and local: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and remote: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
needlepoint is coming soon
N.E.H - local: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and remote: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
neoclassicism or Neoclassicism
neo-Dada - See Pop Art
neo-impressionism or Neo-Impressionism
Neolithic - The New Stone Age
neomannerism is coming soon
neon and neon tubing is coming soon
Netherlandish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
New York school - See Abstract Expressionism
New Zealand art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Nicaraguan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
nihilism, nihilistic is coming soon
nonfinito is coming soon
Northern and Southern Dynasties
Norwegian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
nostril is coming soon
notoriety is coming soon
Nuit Américaine - See day for night
nut [and bolt] is coming soon
Oceanian [Oceanic?] art is coming soon
offset printing, offset lithography
oil crayon is coming soon
olla is coming soon
ophthalmology, ophthalmologist
optic nerve is coming soon
optometry, optometrist is coming soon
opulence, opulent is coming soon
orange is coming soon
ovate - See ovoid
overhead projector is coming soon
package, packaging [including packing art]
paint-by-number or paint by number
painter is coming soon
Pakistani art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
Paleolithic - The Old Stone Age
Palestinian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
pan, panning shot is coming soon
panoptic, panopticon [cite red-light camera photos] is coming soon
paper cutter is coming soon
paradox is coming soon
parapet is coming soon
Parthian art - See Mesopotamian art
parting agent or parting compound - See release agent
passion is coming soon [high time it did!]
patrimony (cultural patrimony) is coming soon
pavement is coming soon
pearl is coming soon
peep-show is coming soon [!]
peg [as in joining] is coming soon
Perceptual Abstraction - See Op Art
perforate is coming soon
Persian art - See Mesopotamian art and Islamic art [also artcyclopedia and Iranian art]
Perspex® is coming soon
Peruvian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
petroleum jelly is coming soon
phallic is coming soon
philosophy and art is coming soon
photogene - See afterimage
photogenic is coming soon
photograph and photo - See photography
photojournalism is coming soon
photosensitive is coming soon
photostat is coming soon
picassiette - See pique assiette
pictogram - See pictograph
picture morgue - See morgue
pie chart - See graph.
pie chart - See graph
piercing, body piercing is coming soon
pillage (steal, plunder) is coming soon
pipe cleaner, stem is coming soon
pique assiette (also called picassiette)
piracy, pirated [illegally copying, copied] is coming soon
pitcher or pitching hammer or pitching tool
plaid [tartan] is coming soon
plait, plaiting is coming soon
plastalene is coming soon
platinum print is coming soon
play and playfulness is coming soon
plumbago - See graphite
plunder - See destroy, illicit, loot, lost, missing, patrimony (cultural patrimony), plunder, provenance, restitution, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon
plywood is coming soon
poetry, poetic, poetry and art is coming soon
polariscope is coming soon
polemic is coming soon
political correctness, politically correct (PC)
politics and art, political art is coming soon
polyvalent
popup or pop-up is coming soon
porous is coming soon
porte-cochere is coming soon
Portland cement - See cement
portraitist is coming soon
Portuguese art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
pose is coming soon
position is coming soon
positive reinforcement is coming soon
post-impressionism or Post-Impressionism
Paul
Cézanne, Vincent van
Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
postmodernism or Postmodernism
post-painterly abstraction is coming soon
practitioner research - See action research
Prairie style or Prairie school
prehistoric - See Stone Age
preliminary is coming soon
preservation is coming soon
press is coming soon
price - See market value or market worth or monetary worth or monetary value
prick, pricked is coming soon
primal is coming soon
principles of design or principles of art
print, prints, printmaking, printing [not lettering]
privilege [v], privileging [used in place of favoring] is coming soon
problematize is coming soon
produce, product, production, productivity is coming soon
project is coming soon
prolific is coming soon
Prometheus and Promethean
prop, [short for] property is coming soon
prosopopeia - See personification
protanomaly, see colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness
protanopia, see colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness
proto- [as in proto-modern, ] is coming soon
provenance - also see destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft
prude, prudery, prudish, prudishness is coming soon
Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)
publish, publisher, plublication is coming soon
Puerto Rican art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
punk [as in punk house, punk rock, etc.] is coming soon
pupil of the eye
Purism is coming soon, lipchitz & ozenfant @ tate
puzzle / picture puzzle is coming soon
Qi - See Northern and Southern Dynasties
Qin - See Quin
quadrant vault - See vault
quilt is coming soon
quirky is coming soon
® - See trademark
RA - See Resettlement Administration (RA)
RA - See Royal Academy or Royal Academy of Arts (RA)
radial, radiate and radial balance
radiate - See ray
rag (see cleaning, paper, and watercolor) is coming soon
rainbow is coming soon, Knight @ tate
raisonné - See catalogue raisonné
raster image - See bit-mapped image
ratio - See Golden Mean and proportion
raytracer, raytracing is coming soon
reaction, reactionary is coming soon
readiness (see motivation) is coming soon
reconstruct, reconstruction is coming soon
recover, recovery - See destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon
recycling and art is coming soon
reduce, reduction, reductive is coming soon. example hepworth, tate
reed pen is coming soon
reflection and reflected image
religion and art is coming soon
reline, relined canvas is coming soon
remodel is coming soon
Renaissance (early Renaissance and later Renaissance)
Resettlement Administration (RA)
resolution,
image or
image resolution
restitution is coming soon
restoration, restored - See art restoration
revise, revision is coming soon
revival is coming soon
rework is coming soon
rhetoric is coming soon
ribbed vault - See vault
ritual, ritualistic is coming soon
robot, robotic is coming soon
rock crystal is coming soon
roentgen rays - See x-ray or X-ray or x ray or X ray
Roll-a-Tex is coming soon
roller is coming soon
Romanian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
rondo - See tondo
room is coming soon
rosin is coming soon See resin and paper
rotoscoping is coming soon
rough is coming soon
rondel - See rondel or roundel or rondelle
Royal Academy or Royal Academy of Arts (RA)
rub is coming soon
rubber is coming soon
rubbing - See abrasive and frottage
rubric is coming soon
ruin is coming soon
ruler is coming soon
saber saw is coming soon
sacrid, sacrilege, sacrilegious is coming soon
safety - See Art & Craft Materials Institute (ACMI), flammable, hazardous, Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), and toxic
Salon or Paris Salon or Salon d'Apollon
Samian pottery - See terra sigillata
sand painting is coming soon
sandpaper is coming soon
sapwood - See heartwood
satinato - See semi-matt
saws - See circular saw, coping, crosscut saw, hacksaw, jig, miter, ripsaw, saber saw,
scaffold [img: d rivera] is coming soon
scagliola - See stucco
scaling board is coming soon
scanning - See image capture or scanner
scatalogical is coming soon
scattered rays of light is coming soon
schematic, schematized is coming soon
scholars' rocks - See Japanese suiseki or Chinese scholars' rocks
school of Burgundy - See Burgundy, school of and Gothic
scrapbook, scrapbooking, scrapbooker is coming soon
scratch is coming soon
screenprint - See silkscreen and prints and printmaking
screenshot - See screen
screw, screwdriver is coming soon
scrimshaw is coming soon
script is coming soon
sculptural space is coming soon
secco is coming soon
Second Empire is coming soon
Section of Fine Arts (SFA) - See Section of Painting and Sculpture (SPS)
Section of Painting and Sculpture (SPS)
secularism - See secular humanism
security (guards, alarms, locks, etc.) is coming soon
self-instructed artist, self-instruction is coming soon
self-taught, self-taught artist is coming soon
selvage is coming soon
semicircle, semicircular is coming soon
sensation is coming soon
Sensation Show [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
sentiment, sentimental, sentimentality
Serbian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
series is coming soon
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
shabtis - See ushabtis
shadow show
shawabtis - See ushabtis
sheet materials
shell is coming soon
sherd - See shard. Also see potsherd or potshard
shot is coming soon
shutter, shutter speed
sight or see or seeing or eyes
signature, signed and unsigned
silex is coming soon
silk is coming soon
silkscreen or silk-screen or screenprint
site-specific - See installation
Situationist International is coming soon
Siva - See Shiva or Siva
skepticism is coming soon
sketchbook is coming soon
skill is coming soon
skin is coming soon
skull is coming soon see http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=8512
slump mold - See drape mold
social realism or Social Realism
socialist realism or Socialist Realism
social studies and art is coming soon
soda-straw effect [see field] is coming soon
software is coming soon
sound - See auditory
Southern Dynasties - See Northern and Southern Dynasties period of Chinese art
special effects is coming soon
spectacle is coming soon
spectator is coming soon
speculate, speculation is coming soon
spin is coming soon
spit bit is coming soon
sponge is coming soon
stage (as in stagecraft, drama, theater) is coming soon
Stages of Artistic Development - Victor Lowenfeld described several Stages of Artistic Development in children's art. These are:
1 . scribble stage,
2 . preschematic
stage (4-6)
3 . schematic stage (6-9)
4 . dawning realism
stage (9-11)
5 . pseudorealistic
stage (11-13)
stainless steel - See steel
stanchion is coming soon
statue, statuette, and statuary
steal, stolen - See destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, theft is coming soon
Stendhal syndrome or Stendhal's syndrome
stereogram, stereopticon, stereoscope is coming soon
sterling [on its own, or within silver: sterling]
stigma, stigmatize, stigmas and stigmata is [or are] coming soon
stilt is coming soon
stimulate, stimulus, stimulation
stitch is coming soon
stretcher and stretch [as in to stretch canvas is coming soon ]
striation is coming soon
student is coming soon
stupa - See Buddhist art and Buddhism
subconscious [compare to unconscious] is coming soon
subculture is coming soon
subliminal message or subliminal advertising
subtle, subtlety is coming soon
sugarlift is coming soon
Sumerian art - See Mesopotamian art
Superrealism - Another name for photorealism
superscription (titulus) is coming soon
Suprematism is coming soon, malevich@tate
surmoulage [sculpture term, exmpl in art deco] - French for mould; moulage is a moulding is coming soon
swastika is coming soon
Swedish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
symmetry or symmetrical balance
synecdoche is coming soon
Synthetic Cubism - See Cubism
T. - Abbreviation for tablespoon
t. - Abbreviation for teaspoon
tabernacle is coming soon
taboo is coming soon
taboret is coming soon
tackiness, tacky is coming soon
Taoism and Taoist art is coming soon - See feng shui
tape is coming soon
telephoto, telephoto lens, and telephoto shot
temperament [see artistic temperament and bias] is coming soon
temple is coming soon
temporal art - See body art, music, dance, performance art
temporary is coming soon
Ten American Painters or The Ten
terra cotta or terracotta or terra-cotta
tertiary colors - See intermediate colors
theft - See destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen is coming soon
thickness - See depth, dimension, height, measure, space, and width
thinner, thinning, paint thinner is coming soon
thumbnail sketch or thumbnail image
Tibetan art is coming soon
tomb is coming soon
ton, tonne is coming soon
tongs is coming soon
torch is coming soon
torsi - A plural of torso
tortoiseshell or tortoise-shell or tortoise shell
total work of art - See universal artwork.
touch is coming soon
toy is coming soon
trace, tracing, and tracing paper
translate is coming soon
transporting art is coming soon
transverse is coming soon
trefoil is coming soon
trend, trendy is coming soon
tribal arts is coming soon
trifold - See brochure is coming soon
triforium
trim is coming soon
tripod is coming soon
tripoli is coming soon
trophy is coming soon
tunic is coming soon
tunnel - See vault
Turkish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
turps - See turpentine
turquoise is coming soon
Tyvek is coming soon
Ukranian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
umber is coming soon
underglaze is coming soon
understand, understanding is coming soon! "The one who understands ... becomes himself a participant in the dialogue." Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895-1975), Russian linguistic philosopher, Toward a Methodology of the Human Sciences.
unfinished is coming soon! [michelangelo slaves]
UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects of 1995
United States of America, art of the - See American art
United States Society for Education Through Art (USSEA)
unsigned - See signature, signed and unsigned
upholster, upholsterer, and upholstery
urethane - See polyurethane
ureus is coming soon: egyptian cobra symbol of royalty, louvre
Uruguayan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
utility, utilitarian is coming soon
vandal, Vandals, vandalism, and vandalize
variable edition (VE) is coming soon
velvet is coming soon
Venezuelan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
version is coming soon
Very Special Arts - The former name of VSA arts
video game is coming soon
Vienna Secession - See secession
viewing stones - See suiseki
viewpoint is coming soon
vinyl is coming soon
violet is coming soon
visible, visibility is coming soon
vision - See sight or see or seeing
visual art, visual arts is coming soon
visual stimulus is coming soon
vivid is coming soon
V-tool is coming soon
water miscible oil paints is coming soon
wave is coming soon
weal - See scarification
Web - See World Wide Web (WWW)
weight - See gram, decagram, karat, kilogram, measurement, paper, pound, ounce, stone, and ton
weight shift - See contrapposto.
Weltanschauung - See world-view or worldview (pr. velt"on-shou'eng)
Bay Area / West Coast figuration [see San Fran...] is coming soon
Western Art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
wet collodion - See collodion wet plate
wet-on-dry is coming soon
wet-on-wet is coming soon
wheel window - See rose window
white is coming soon
white spirits - See mineral spirits
wide-angle, wide-angle lens, wide-angle shot
wildlife art [see animalia, artcyclopedia, & nature] is coming soon
wipe is coming soon
wisdom is coming soon [couldn't be too soon!]
women's art - See feminism and feminist art and gender issues
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
wool is coming soon
work-in-progress is coming soon
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
wrench is coming soon
Wunderkabinett and Wunderkammer
X-acto knife is coming soon
x-ray or X-ray or x ray or X ray
YAM - See Youth Art Month (YAM)
yard art - See The Yard
Art Project - http://www.literate-lemur.com/yard_art_project
Features photo galleries of art found in yards, gardens, and similar
outdoor spaces. Invites submissions of yard art photos for possible
online exhibition.
yellow is coming soon
yin and yang is coming soon
Young British Artists (YBAs) is coming soon
Yugoslavian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon
zig-zag is coming soon. example: r long @ tate gal
zinnober green - Another name for chrome green is coming soon
acrylic paint acrylic on canvas
AD
BC
BCE
black-figure painted terra cotta
c.
CE
depth, diameter, height, length, weight, width
depth, diameter, height, length, weight, width
depth, diameter, height, length, weight, width
depth, diameter, height, length, weight, width
linoleum cut from two blocks
lithograph on paper
oil pastel on paper
photograph on paper
signature, signed and unsigned
depth, diameter, height, length, weight, width
mughal
Romanesque
See American Indian.
See Australian art.
See Austrian art.
See Canadian art.
See Danish art.
See Dutch art.
See English art.
See French art.
See German art.
See Greek art.
See Hungarian art.
See Japanese art.
See Jewish art.
See Mesoamerican art.
See Mexican art.
See Polish art.
See Roman art.
See Russian art.
See Scottish art.
See Spanish art.
See Swiss art.
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