Movement: A principle of art and design concerned with creating a distinctive structure that shows a feeling of action or a series of actions and guides a viewer’s eye through a work of art.
Museum: A building or place where works of art or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.
Palette: The range of colours chosen by an artist for use in a particular painting.
Pastels: A pigment stick (e.g. chalk, oil pastel) used in colour drawing. Can refer as well to a tint of very light value (that is, containing no black and more white than hue).
Perspective: A system for creating the illusion of 3-D depth in 2-D images. Three types of perspective are linear perspective (based on parallel lines converging as their distance from the observer increases); diminishing perspective (based on the apparent reduction in the size of objects as their distance from the observer increases); and atmospheric perspective (based on the apparent reduction of the detail and colour intensity of objects as their distance from the observer increases).
Portrait: A likeness of a person, as a painting, drawing, sculpture, or photograph.
Poster: Signs used to advertise simple messages. Classic posters, such as those of Toulouse-Lautrec, are considered art masterpieces.
Pottery: Ware made of clay and fired in a ceramic kiln.
Primary colours: Those colours from which all other colours may be mixed. In painting, red, yellow, and blue are the primary colours.
Proportion: The size relationship between the parts of an image and the whole.
Realism: A style or tradition in which artists strive to achieve a life-like representation in their work.
Representational: As opposed to abstract, a portrayal of an object in recognizable form.
Sculpture: A three-dimensional form; an art form created by altering the appearance of a mass by adding or subtracting material.

Self-portrait: A portrait of and by one-self, as a painting.
Shape: An element of art and design that pertains to an area set off by one or more of the other elements of art and design.
Sketch: A rough drawing representing the main features of a composition; often used as a preliminary study.
Space: An element of art and design that pertains to the real or illusory 3-D expanse in which an image or components of an image exist or appear to exist.
Still Life: A painting or drawing of an arrangement of inanimate objects.
Storyboard: A visual planning device for sketching out a sequence of frames for a comic strip, film, video, and so on.
Style: That which gives a distinctive or unique quality to art.
Surrealism: A style of art, prominent in the first half of the 20th century, developed in response to the ideas of psychologists such as Carl Jung. Some surrealists such as Salvador Dali and Ren? Magritte represent dreamlike or fantasy images in a representational way. Others like Joan Miró and Max Ernst use more abstract forms to represent the subconscious.
Symbol: A sign or object that stands for or suggests something else because of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance.
Technique: Method or procedure used to produce a work of art.
Texture: An element of art and design that pertains to the way something feels by representation of the tactile character of surfaces.
Tone: An element of art and design that pertains to the effect of lightness and darkness in relation to one or more parts of a work of art.
Vanishing Point: In perspective, the point at which parallel lines seem to meet and disappear.
Watercolour: Pigments mixed with water instead of oil or other medium; also, a picture painted with watercolour, often on paper.