The Elements of Art
The Principles of Art
Artists
Famous Artwork
Media
100

These colors (red, orange, yellow) convey the feeling of high temperature

What are warm colors

100

The repetition of line and shape

What is pattern

100

This artist is well known for painting the ceiling of the sistine Chapel

Who is Michelangelo

100

Outside his window from the asylum Saint-Remy-de-Provence, Van Gogh painted this iconic painting

What is Starry Night

100

A media made of burnt wood

What is charcoal

200

An element of art that refers to the lightness and darkness of an object

What is value

200

The implied motion in a work of art

What is movement

200

This iconic female surrealist painter is famous for her unibrow.

Who is Frida Kahlo

200

In 2015 a French scientist said he found a hidden portrait beneath this Leonard Da Vinci portrait

What is the Mona Lisa

200

A media used to create ceramics

What is clay?

300

A line that defines both the exterior and interior edge of a form (outline of an object).

What is contour line
300

A large difference between two objects such as the difference between light and dark

What is contrast?

300

This artist is attributed with starting the Impressionist movement with his debut of Impression Sunrise

Who is Claude Monet

300

This 1930 painting by Grant Wood portrays a farmer and his wife

What is American Gothic

300

A media of slow drying pigment powder mixed with linseed oil

What is oil paint

400
The space behind an object

What is negative space

400

This principle provides stability and structure to a design based on the placement of your elements.

What is Balance?

400

A category in the World Beard & Moustache Championships honors this 20th century artist's moustache.

Who is Salvador Dali

400

This famous ready-made sculpture of a urinal by Marcel Duchamp was part of a Dadaist exhibit. 

What is the Fountain

400

A type of sculptural material made of gypsum, sand, and water that hardens as it dries. 

What is Plaster

500

This element refers to tactile qualities.  It can be actual or implied. 

What is texture

500

The spaces between repeating visual elements such as alternating, flowing, random, regular, and progressive.

What is Rhythm?

500

This famous artist known for dripping paint all over his canvas was often nicknamed "Jack the Dripper"

Who is Jackson Pollock

500

A restaurant on New York's Greenwich Ave inspired this 1942 Edward Hopper Painting

The Nighthawks

500

A type of opaque watercolor similar to tempera paint

What is Gouache

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