Work of art - the visual expression of an idea or experience formed with skill through the use of a medium
Medium - a particular material, along with its accompanying technique (the plural is media)
Mixed Media - art made with a combination of different materials
Perception - to be aware through the senses, particularly through sight or hearing
Awareness - to be conscious, to know something, and to understand through that awareness
Aesthetics - an awareness of beauty or of that quality in a work of art or other manmade or natural form which evokes a sense of elevated awareness in the viewer.
Creativity - a mental and social process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts
Untrained Artists - those with little or no formal art education who make objects commonly recognized as art (also called naïve or outsider artists)
Folk Artists - artists untrained in traditional Western art skills who are nonetheless part of established traditions of style, theme, and craftsmanship
Representational Art - works of art that depict the appearance of things, representing objects the viewer can recognize from the everyday world (also called objective or figurative art)
Subject - an object depicted in representational art
Abstract Art - works of art that depict natural objects in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways
Nonrepresentational Art - works of art that present visual forms with no specific references to anything outside themselves (also called nonobjective or nonfigurative art)
Form - the total effect of the combined visual qualities within a work, including components such as materials, color, shape, line, and design (what we see)
Content - the message or meaning of the work of art--what the artist expresses or communicates to the viewer (the meaning we get from what we see)
Iconography - the symbolic meaning of signs, subjects, and images
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