Elements of Art
This element has primary, secondary, and tertiary groups.
What is color?
A type of paint that is available in formats of pencil, palette, crayon, or even a tube.
What is watercolor?
Art that does not represent reality, but instead achieves unique effects using shapes, lines, and colors.
What is abstract art?
This Spanish artist had a long mustache, was known for his eccentric personality, and is known for his Surreal paintings.
Who is Salvador Dali?
This element can be geometric or organic.
What is shape?
This allows an artist to smooth textures or values on paper.
What is a blending stick?
This principle of art refers to doing something over and over and over again in a work of art.
What is repetition?
This art style depicts real people, objects, and scenes in cubes, and distorted shapes.
What is Cubism?
This French artist is known as the founder of Impressionism.
Who is Claude Monet?
This element has horizontal or vertical directions.
What is line?
An art style used in ceramics to connect pieces of clay.
What is slip & score?
This principle can be positive, negative, or even refer to the illusion of a 3D shape.
What is space?
This art style refers to popular culture and has bright colors.
What is Pop art?
This female artist from Mexico painted many creative self-portraits and expressed her difficult life story.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
The element that refers to lightness and darkness of color.
What is value?
An art material that has a sharp tip and the darkest yet softest of it's kind.
What is an ebony pencil?
When you have many different elements of art within an artwork.
What is variety?
This art style depicts real objects in unrealistic or dreamlike ways.
What is Surrealism?
This graffiti artist was born in Pennsylvania and painted hearts, lines, and animations in the Pop art style.
Who is Keith Haring?
The element that refers to how an object feels.
What is texture?
An object that can change shape to reach small spots and blend pencil values.
What is a kneaded eraser?
When your eye flows freely throughout the entirety of an artwork and doesn't get stuck in one spot you have this principle of art.
This style of painting focuses on making the impression of real life by using dots, dashes, and loose brushstrokes.
What is Impressionism?
This American artist was inspired by medical journal illustrations and painted expressionist paintings on various surfaces such as cardboard, paper, and canvas.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?