Challenging Vocabulary for Elementary Students
- The Human Touch
Explanation: observation, analysis, technical, physical artmaking process, tool, materials, process
Coe: elaborate, notate, details, composition, forgivable. graduation of values, value change, kneaded eraser, stretcher bar, raw canvas, gessoing, polymer, ground, pigment, still life, references, composing, medium, vine charcoal, indentations, palette, magenta, acrylic, sable, badger hair, artworld, advantage, in-progress, decisions, revise, apply, complement, texture, respond, visions and revision
Brolly: burl, cancerous growth, lumber yard, saw cut, long grain, ban saw, lathe artist, mount on machine, spindle, stationary, reassemble, mounted between two centers, files, hard edge, design element, species of wood, characteristics, maple, walnut, variation, curly maple, figure, negative space, wedge, notches, joined, Ponce de Leon, reference, helmet, veneer, lathe turning, spindle turning, incorporates, turning techniques, spinal column, mahogany. face-plate turning, spindle-turnings, off-center turning, sandblast, bent lamination,
- All Things Visible (excluding the Coe section on “visual texture”)
Explanation: commercial, bombard, stimuli, line, shape, color, value (light and dark) visual vocabulary, elements of design
Coe: lines, shapes, values, colors, science-fiction, canines, back-lit, cacti, discontinuous outlines, edges, zig zag, curved, straight, geometric shape, organic shapes, simplified, irregular edges, negative shape, eerie, dramatic dramatically, fringy, contrast, accentuated, complements, alien lights, low-intensity (dull) colors, vegetation, canine inhabitants, mixed out colors, strikingly, higher intensity (brighter), career, calm, horizontal, diagonal, jarring, generation of knowledge and life forms, technology,
Brolly: lines, shapes, values, colors, three-dimensional, two-dimensional, linear qualities, forms, circles, semi-circles, negative space, grain of the wood, minimal, appear as only one tone, many gradual variations from lighter to darker, distinctly different, shade,
- More to See and Touch (possibly excluding Brolly after the analysis of the cradle)
Explanation: artifacts, three dimensions, height, width, and depth, computer animation, four-dimensional, planes, form in space
Coe: textures, forms in space, stretcher, predominately, two-dimensional, foreground, recede, middle ground, peering, background, illusion, similarly, substantial looking, weighty, mass, minimal actual physical texture, illusion of texture, granite, shimmering, juxtapose, juxtaposition, compose
Brolly: textures, forms in space, actual surfaces, interior, spikes, rockers, pod-like, dramatically modified, encapsulate, cylindrical, polished, (vocabulary from skipped video after cradle analysis = considerable variety, occupies, defines, and interacts with space, bulbous, undulate, spheres, fat disks, double saucer-like form, body parts)
- People, Places, and Things
Explanation: subject matter, depicts, represents, imitates, appearance, content or meaning
Coe: subject matter, projectiles, household furnishings, background, details, captain’s chair, glare, warthog, emerges, tusk, seated monkey, feline, ocelot, caught its attention, flurry, swirl, forepaws, lolling, casting a shadow, encircling, details
Brolly: case, obvious subject matter, two-legged, graduation mortar board, interchangeable, conventional, facial features, revealed, resembling, back bone, thigh bones, poses, encircling, forked branch, projects, junction, oval, upraised
- The Days of Our Lives
Explanation: personal and social lives, personalities and values, experiences
Coe: flight attendant, bartender, ancestors, MFA, exclusively, solo show, pivotal, leukemia, acquired, timber wolf
Brolly: beret, hoodlums, carpenter, psychologically wounded, Kutztown (State College), rural America
- The World Around Us
Explanation: physical, structures, environments, constructed, ultimately, linen, manufactured, naturally-occurring, petroleum
Coe: physical environment, proximity, document and record, basketry, personal altars, studio, integrated, constantly, aware, property, land trust, Superstition Wilderness, greater community, citizenship, involvement in the world, preservation, aesthetic
Brolly: formative years, Philadelphia, rowhome, congested, fender, logistically, images, proximity, design elements, hood ornament, science-fiction, influences, self-interpretive, Jersey Shore, hostile, sewer system, Fairmont Park, greenery, organic elements
- What Does it Do?
Explanation: function, multiple functions
Coe: function, illustration, co-equal, in sequence, set up a message, empowerment, transcendence, leukemia, depicting, totemic, protector and destroyer, maelstrom, harshest realities of life
Brolly: (skip beginning jewelry box section and begin with analysis of office to avoid the suggestive content of the first artwork) function, sets a mood, reflection and contemplation, visual puns, interpret, sensuous objects
- Cultures Here and Now / There and Then
Explanation: culture, shared, extinction, gourmet
Coe: culture, ancestors, Presbyterian medical missionaries, tuberculosis, sanatorium, self discipline, confront, hardship, remote, landscape, interaction, subscription, narrative, script, series of narratives, illustrate, influence, images, Bill Gates, milieu, science-fiction, mutant gila monsters, mutate
Brolly: sources, influences, national pastime, urban neighborhood, organized sports, aspects, science-fiction double features, personal exploration, immigrants, Depression, overlying philosophy, humorous, carpenter, seamstress, encourage, instill, the Mainline, upstairs maid, chauffeur, pension, unstable, stability
- What the Artist Wants to Do
Explanation: clearly developed intentions, monumental scale sculpture, computer controlled subtractive cutting process, factors, group show, requirements of patron, reveal, invaluable, construct our own interpretation, accomplish
Coe: still life, hibernation, juxtaposition, Arctic winter, northern lights, metaphysical, trickster, harbinger, ill omen, joyous, not conscious decision, Tibetan prayer flags, sacred fluids, streams of consciousness, appreciator, conclusions
Brolly: misunderstandings, counter balance, triangulated, center of gravity, pollinate, mahogany, ecosystem, consumption, symbol, beneficial, ancient, challenge, revolves, similarities, alcoholic, circular thinking, symbolize, wreaked havoc upon, Irish American stock, protective, nurturing, seed pods, fluids
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