Critical Vocabulary List

Feeling	Texture	Line	Composition
Alive Atmosphere Delicate Depressing Dignified Disturbing Exciting Expressive Fresh Humorous Imposing Nostalgic Sad	Coarse Cross-hatching Fine Flat Glaze Hatching Impasto Jagged Matt Rough Shiny Smooth Soft Splatter Stipple Thick Thin Wash	Angular Broken Confident Faint Flowing Fluent Free Hesitant Scribble Sweeping Tight Woolly	Background Blurred Complex Confined Design Distant Eye-line Focus Foreground Form Middle-ground Near Perspective Plane Proportion Scale Shape Sharp
Light	Kind of Art	Colour	What is it?
Artificial Dark Ethereal Evening Full of Light Fierce Gentle Harsh Haze Highlight Intense Light Midday Natural Night Shadow Soft Source Tone	Abstract Derivative Distorted Emotional Exaggerated Exterior Fake Fantasy Figurative Impressionistic Impressive Interior Landscape Mundane Noble Non-representational Pastiche Pattern Portrait Religious Representational Seascape Sentimental Still life Surreal Symbolic	Blend Bright Clash Cold Deep Dull Glowing Harmonious Intense Luminous Mixed Opaque Pale Pastel Primary Pure Saturated Secondary Soft Tint Translucent Transparent Vibrant Warm	Aquatint Assemblage Base relief Caricature Cartoon Carving Ceramic Collage Design Diptych Drawing Easel painting Etching Fresco Gouache Lithograph Logo Miniature Model Mural Painting Photograph Print Relief Screen print Sculpture Sketch Stencil Tempera Tripych