Art in FocusChapter 2:
Developing a Visual VocabularyWeb Links
| Artlex Online Art Dictionary | | Are you baffled when the teacher asks you what the Ashcan School is? This Web site provides definitions of art and art history concepts accompanied by full-color images. Find five terms that are new to you, learn their meaning, and see if you can stump a classmate. Have that person pick five other terms to test you.
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http://www.artlex.com/
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| ArtEdventures | | Visit this clever, highly interactive site to learn about color theory, the moods of different colors, and how artists have used color to express emotion. Examine the effects and use of color and click on all the links on this page to gain an understanding of primary, secondary, tertiary, cool, warm, and neutral colors. Challenge yourself by reading about color symbolism in art and then adding more color symbols that you know about that are not included here.
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http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/color2/a1.html
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| A Lifetime of Color - Study Elements and Principles | | Visit the “Elements and Principles” section of this Web site to get great definitions accompanied by illustrations that help you understand the visual language of art. Use the time line to find an era and/or culture that you have recently been studying in history class. What kind of art was being made at that time and place? How did artists use the elements (line, shape, color, composition) to express themselves?
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http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=3
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