A Bird in the Hand - Art Gallery of Alberta

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramGlossaryAnalogous colour: Colours that are beside each other on the colour wheel, e.g. red and orange.Complementary colour: Those colours that are opposite to one another on the colour wheel andproviding the greatest chromatic contrast to it. For example, blue is the complement of orange.Cool colours: Colours including blues, greens, violets that can suggest sky, ice, snow that might beused to represent a quiet or calm mood.Critique: A discussion and critical analysis of works of art.Etching: see 1/Intaglio techniques under Art Media- Print makingGeometric shape: Any shape or form having more mathematic than organic design. Examples ofgeometric forms include: spheres, cones, cylinders, pyramids, cubes.Linocut: see 2/ Relief processes under Art Media- PrintmakingLithography: see 3/Planographic techniques under Art Media- PrintmakingMedium: The material or technique used by an artist to produce a work of art.Mythology: the body of stories associated with a culture or person.Organic shape: An irregular shape; refers to shapes or forms having irregular edges or objectsresembling things existing in nature.Relief print: A print from the ink on raised portions of a wood block or some other form of relief block(e.g., linoleum). The portions not to be inked and printed are cut away so what remains is relief.Serigraphy: see 3/Planographic techniques under Art Media- PrintmakingStylization: see Art Styles- AbstractionSymbolism: The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolicmeanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.Tesselation: A tessellation or tiling is a collection of figures that fills the plane with no overlaps or gapsto form repeated patterns. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher and are seenthroughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art.Warm colours: Colours such as red, oranges, yellows that suggest warmth and seem to advance orcome forward off the picture plane.Woodcuts: see 2/ Relief processes under Art Media- PrintmakingAFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479youraga.ca