Art can be both a hobby and a profession for some, and for those who are serious about their art, there is a specific language used to describe their artwork and the process of creating their pieces. Knowing the art vocabulary words is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of the art world. This blog post will highlight a few of the most commonly used words when talking about art and their definitions so that you can understand the language of the art world more fully.
A To Z Art Related Words List
| Airbrush | Assemblage | Academy |
| Animation | Abstract art | Arabesque |
| Artwork | Arthur | Art gallery |
| Array | Acrylic paint | Architecture |
| Antique | Acrylic painting | Acrylic resin |
| Artists | Assemble | Artistic |
| Artist’s bridge | Art supply | Actor |
| Attempt | Audiovisual | Artist |
| Art show | Author | Automatism |
| Avant-garde | Award | Abstractionist |
| Aquatint | Aboriginal art | Applied art |
| Art nouveau | Acrylic | Artisan |
| Blending | Become artist | Bauhaus |
| Batik | Biscuit | Brightness |
| Brush | Bookplate | Bas-relief |
| Bust | Byzantine | Brushwork |
| Booklet | Best | Bridge |
| Biographical | Balance | Baroque |
| Biography | Buy paint | Body paint |
| Card | Copied | Catalogues |
| Clay | Colored pencils | Casting |
| Collection | Curve | Convex |
| Carpet page | Contrast | Canon |
| Curator | Critique | Camera obscura |
| Compilation | Cartooning | Combat |
| Color wheel | Chalk | Color |
| Cloisonné | Characters | Charcoal |
| Contemporary art | Cosplays | Conceptual art |
| Content | Compass | Chisel |
| Craft | Crafting | Composition |
| Commission | Crayon | Create |
| Creative work | Credited | Creativity |
| Crosshatching | Collage | |
| Canvas | Carve | Coat wall |
| Cartoon | Commanding | Ceramics |
| Calligraphy | Composers | Drawing |
| Diptych | Direction | Drawings |
| Design | Draftsman | Displayed |
| Diversity | Displays | Discourse |
| Decor | Diorama | Decorate |
| Depict | Decorate room | Draw |
| Displaying | Drip painting | Decoupage |
| Distemper |
| Entertainment | Enamel | Erase |
| Expressionism | Egg tempera | Exhibit |
| Expressive | Exhibitions | Endurance |
| Exhibition | Eraser | Enfant terrible |
| Engraving | Enlightenment | Emboss |
| Etchings | Easel | Etching |
| Encaustic |
| Finger paint | Fine art | Filmmakers |
| Futurism | Figurine | Flavor |
| Figure drawing | Film | Featuring |
| Fluid | Folk art | Figure |
| Feature | Foreshortening | Form |
| Frame | Fresco | Framed |
| Fuzz | Falter | Fiction |
| Gilding | Gameplay | Game |
| Gallery open | Get some paint | Gouache |
| Graffiti | Glyptography | Gallery |
| Graphic design | Graphite | Graphic |
| Glassblowing | Genre painting | Gold leaf |
| Geometric | Glaze | Gesso |
| Graphics | Glass |
| High-relief | Hue | Hirschfeld |
| Hieroglyphs | Hatching | History painting |
| Humanities | High art | History |
| Hammer |
| Illustrated | Icon | Illustration |
| Infusion | Impasto | Installation art |
| Ink | Indiana | Icons |
| India ink | Illustrative | Illumination |
| Illusionism | Installation | Illustrate |
| Inspiration | Imagery | Image |
| Innovation | Iconography |
| Judgment | Johns | Jasper johns |
| Kitsch | Kiln | Key |
| Latex | Lithography | Lithograph |
| Literature | Luster | Literary |
| Linocut | Logo | Latex paint |
| Letter sign | Life drawing | Lost wax method |
| Lighting | Line | Line engraving |
| Lino cut | Liner brush | Linseed oil |
| Low-relief |
| Muse | Minimalist art | Momentum |
| Museum | Magnum opus | Modern art |
| Mask tape | Masterpiece | Minstrelsy |
| Marker | Merch | Meager |
| Memes | Media | Model |
| Masterworks | Marble | Mosaic |
| Museums | Motif | Movie |
| Masa | Mural | Marbling |
| Modernist | Miniaturist | Modeling |
| Musical | Mechanical pencil | Mixed media |
| Manuscript | Medium |
| Notation | Novelist | Novel |
| Neutral |
| Objet trouvé | Old master | Oeuvre |
| Other | Originals | Overlap |
| Oil paint | Original art | Oil color |
| Offset lithograph | Op art |
| Porcelain | Paintbrush | |
| Poster | Printed | Photo |
| Pen | Portray | Publication |
| Pastiche | Pastel | Perspective |
| Paint roller | Physical body | Picturer |
| Porn | Paint | Photogravure |
| Pochoir | Papier pastoral | Panorama |
| Pigment | Plein air painting | Placement |
| Portrait | Pictures | Photographer |
| Pounce | Puppetry | Printing |
| Pre-raphaelite | Presents | Pencil |
| Painter | Photorealism | Primary color |
| Painters | Painting | Performed |
| Paintless | Paintmaking | Palette |
| Panel painting | Palette knife | Photography |
| Paper | Performers | Pose |
| Proportion | Pop art | Portraiture |
| Project | Pioneering | Portfolio |
| Pottery | Photograph | Playwright |
| Quattrocento | Quill | Quality |
| Quilting | Quilt |
| Rococo | Restraint | Reproduced |
| Realism | Renowned | Romanticism |
| Renaissance | Repetition | Romanticist |
| Ruler | Remastered | Recording |
| Stippling | Shallowness | Seascape |
| Surrealism | Sculpture | Sculptor |
| Shade | Sketchbook | Skill |
| Stone | Site-specific art | Sculpting |
| Scroll | Soundtrack | Stencil |
| Style | Solvent | Silkscreen |
| Secondary color | Sketch | Self-portrait |
| Scale | Scheme | Science |
| Screenwriter | Screen printing | Singer |
| Sculpt | Surrealist | Stipple |
| Subtle | Spray paint | Stonecutting |
| Shapes | Stained glass |
| Textile arts | Tables | Tiffany |
| Trompe l’oeil | Tools | Trompe l’oeil |
| Triptych | Tapestries | Tint |
| Technicolor | Tempera | Turpentine |
| Template | Tube | Tone |
| T-square | Tanka |
| Ukiyo-e | Unusual | Unpaint |
| Use brush | Undertone | Ultimate |
| Varnish | Variety | Vocalist |
| Visual arts | Vellum | Ventriloquism |
| Video | Video art | Videos |
| Vision | Visual artist | Visual |
| Vitrine |
| Whirl | Watercolorist | Watercolor |
| War artists | Wheel | Woodcut print |
| Work of art | Woodblock | Writer |
| Works | Wood carving | Woodcut |
| Waterscape | Wood engraving | Wax |
| Written | Wood |
| Zoomorphic | Zest | Ziggurat |
Art Vocabulary Words | Images
