Abstract Art – a picture or a sculpture made up of patterns, shapes, and colors that don’t represent a person, place, or thing in the natural world.

Background – the scenery or area that is behind the main object or person.

Base – a surface on which to work.

Complementary Colors – colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.

Collaboratively – Artists working together on a project.

Collage – work made up of layered materials on a surface.

Composition – the arrangements of elements in a work of art.

Content – what you can see in the work: objects, shapes, a person, etc.

Diagonal – a line that lies at an angle.

Elements – parts of which something is made up.

Figurative – Art representing human or animal forms.

Foreground – the area right at the front of the scene/pictures.

Grid – a framework of vertical and horizontal lines.

Horizontal – a line, which lies level with the horizon.

Isolated – keep apart from other objects.

Juxtaposition – place things of unequal importance side by side to illustrate some comparison or insightful meaning.

Kinetic Art – a type of art that moves.

Media – the materials that have been used.

Miscellaneous Materials – mixed or assorted.

Mixed media – a combination of media used to make a piece of work.

Mobile – a sculpture that is suspended and moves.

Mood – the feeling created by the sculpture.

Outline – line around the edge of something that shows its shape.

Political and Social Art – work that addresses issues or concerns in society.

Primary colors – red, yellow, and blue.

Process – the way something is made.

Relief – a surface that is raised from the background.

Relief collage – a collection of objects fixed onto a flat background.

Representational – to depict something literal or figurative in a work of art.

Secondary colors – a color made by mixing two primary colors together.

Sequence – the order in which things are connected, related, or dated.

Style – a particular way in which something is made and then looks.

Symmetrical – two halves, where one half is the same as the other, a mirror image.

Technique – a way or style of working.

Vertical – a line rising straight up and down.