Hi, my name is Laurie Joly-Bernier. I live in St-Eustache. I have been in College Lionel-Groulx for one year now in Visual Arts. The Glossary that I made will definitely help new students to understand and also be like a reminder for the student who already knew that. Each word in the glossary will be use a lot in everyday class so you absolutely need to know and understand them. After learning all the words and definition you will now be able to talk like a real artist and really understand some arts piece.
chromatic circle
The chromatic circle is a clock diagram for displaying relationships among the 12 equal-tempered pitch classes making up the familiar chromatic scale on a circle.
Example: The chromatic circle, allows to have a visual of a great diversity of colors at one time.
en: Un cercle chromatique.
Complementary colours
The complementary colours are those which combined give grey and white color.
Example: Two complementary colours are diametrically opposed in the chromatic circle.
en: Les couleurs complémentaires.
composition
The action of assembling thing together to form a balanced piece.
Example: The composition of an art piece.
en: La composition.
contraste
The opposition between two or many things.
Example: The contrast of black and white.
en: Un contaste.
criticizing
To think, describe and analyse the work to make a great criticizing.
en: critiquer.
dark light
A soft, subdued light, it's what we call the twilight.
Example: The dark light, in a painting is the contrast between light areas and the dark one.
en: Clair-obscur.
distortion
changing the usual shape of an object to change emotions and ideas.
Example: she uses the distortion to make a face of a girl but in a multiple pieces.
en: La distortion
drawing on the scale
The scale of a drawing indicates the value of the relationship between drawn dimensions and actual dimensions.
Example: Make a drawing at the real scale.
en: Un dessin a l'echelle.
foreground
In art, we got two plans when we look at a piece of art, the foreground who is in the front of us and the background away from us.
Example: We can see the dog at the foreground
en: L'avant plan.
glacis
The technique to obtain a transparent rendering with paint.
Example: You need to use the glacis technique to have a real sensation in this painting.
en: Un glacis
horizon line
A straight line which takes the form of the terrestrial curve and which forms the horizon line therefore the limit between the earth and the sky.
Example: we see a sailboat on the horizon.
en: La ligne d'horizon
hue
The degree of paleness of a color that varies with the added white.
Example: The hue of the grey here is very pale.
en: La teinte.
negative space
The surrounding space an object.
Example: Make a draw only with the negative space.
en: L'espace négatif.
neutral colors
tree colours are into the neutral colours, the white, the grey and the black.
Example: I want to use only the neutral colors in this piece.
en: Des couleurs neutres.
proportion
The proportion is the relationship between the dimensions of the different parts of the study. It can be the body in drawing or painting, or a construction in architecture.
Example: The proportion between the hands and the arm isn't correct.
en: La proportion.
reproduction
A reproduction is to copy or changes a little bit something who already has been done. a reproduction is not authentic.
Example: That a reproduction of the painting of Eugene Delacroix.
en: Une reproduction.
rhythm
principle of composition that consists of repeating elements in order to create an illusion of movement.
Example: There's a lot of rhythm in your paint.
en: Le rythme
shortcut
An effect of perspective creates by magnifying the closest parts of an object to make the illusion that the rest of the object is backed away.
Example: She had made a shortcut of the body of the personage to make perspective, so we could see all of his body.
en: Un raccourci.
trompe-l'oeil
The technique of trompe-l'oeil is to make an illusion that the object is in tree dimension.
en: Le trompe-l'oeil.
vanishing point
The vanishing point, is an imaginary point intended to help the designer to construct his work in perspective.
Example: You need to make a vanishing point to make sure you draw is in perspective.
