Part 1: Elements of Art & Principles of Design
1. Which of the following are the three Primary Colors?
Red, Yellow, Blue
Who painted the famous portrait known as the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci?
This is an artwork an artist creates by looking in a mirror and drawing themselves.
What is a Self-Portrait?
This is the special "oven" used to bake clay at very high temperatures to make it permanent.
What is a Kiln?
This principle of design is achieved when both sides of an artwork are exactly the same (like a butterfly).
What is Symmetrical Balance?
2. What color do you get when you mix Blue and Yellow?
Green
This artist is known for his "Blue Period" and for co-founding the geometric style called Cubism.
Pablo Picasso?
This is a 3D work of art that can be made from clay, stone, metal, or even recycled trash.
What is a Sculpture?
This is the "liquid glass" applied to ceramic pieces to give them color and a shiny, waterproof finish.
What is Glaze?
This is the general term for the materials an artist uses, such as "watercolor," "oil pastel," or "graphite."
What is Medium (or Media)?
Define "Value" in a work of art.
The lightness or darkness of a color
He was a leader of the Pop Art movement and is famous for his colorful prints of Campbell’s Soup cans.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This is the technique of gluing various materials like paper, cloth, or photos onto a flat surface.
What is a Collage?
This "slippery" term refers to the mixture of clay and water used like glue to join two pieces of clay together.
What is Slip?
This drawing technique uses a "vanishing point" to make objects on a flat paper look like they are going back into the distance.
What is Linear Perspective?
4. What is the difference between a Geometric shape and an Organic shape?
Geometric: Man-made/Math; Organic: Natural/Freeform
This Mexican artist is best known for her many self-portraits that expressed her feelings and culture.
Frida Kahlo?
In a landscape, this is the specific line where the sky appears to meet the Earth.
What is the Horizon Line?
This is the name of the technique where you roll clay into long, snake-like ropes to build a pot.
What is a Coil?
This principle of design creates a "focal point" that catches the viewer’s attention first.
What is Emphasis?
5. In a landscape painting, what do we call the line where the sky meets the ground?
Horizon Line
This art movement, led by Claude Monet, focused on capturing the "feeling" of light and used small, thin brushstrokes.
What is Impressionism
This is the name for an arrangement of non-living objects (like a bowl of fruit or flowers) used as a subject for a painting.
What is a Still Life?
This is the term for clay that has been fired once but has not yet been glazed.
What is Bisqueware?
This refers to the quality of neatness and the skill an artist uses when handling their tools and finishing a project.
What is Craftsmanship?