Elements of Art
Processes and Techniques
Western Art
Non-Western Art
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Most basic element of art.
What is a line?
100
The most common water-based paint.
What is water color?
100
This Ancient Civilization created The Pyramids at Giza, the Sphinx and emphasized a style called the hierarchial scale.
What is Ancient Egyptian Art?
100
The most famous work of Chinese Art.
What is the Great Wall of China?
100
The earliest civilizations were formed in this place in Western Asia.
Where is Mesopotamia?
200
Defines the two-dimensional area of an object.
What is a shape?
200
This is a type of shading and with this technique, the artist creates different values by making a pattern of dots.
What is stippling?
200
This art form is also known as the Neolithic Period which includes rings or rows of rough-hewn stones.
What is the New Stone Age?
Stonehenge
200
The introduction of this religion from India had a profound effect on Chinese arts and culture.
What is Buddhism?
200
Linear perspective and a move towards naturalism are major innovations of this time period in European history.
What is the Renaissance?
Linear Perspective
300
Objects that are three-dimensional, having length, width, and depth.
What is form?
300
This is process in which lines are crisscrossed to create shading.
What is crosshatching?
300
Column Structures and types of columns like the corinthian, dorian and ionic were created in this ancient art.
What is Ancient Greek Art?
300
Which countries (one country) artistic traditions remained even when the country became open to the Western world.
What is Japan?
300
This type of art is usually large in scale, is constructed on-site, and is usually not permanent. This art occupies space that may be outside in the natural world or inside a gallery or museum.
What is environmental art or land art?
400
Brightness or purity of a color.
What is intensity?
400
This is a kind of mixed media in which artists combine various materials such as photographs, unusual papers, theater tickets, and virtually any other materials that can be adhered to a surface.
What is a collage?
400
Old Stone age is also known as this Period.
What is the Upper Paleolithic Period?
400
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (687–692) is one of the oldest examples of ______ architecture.
What is Islamic?
400
_______ is a medium based upon the use of natural materials. Clay, dug from the ground, is the essential material.
What is pottery?
500
The area around the objects, shapes,
or forms in an artwork.
What is negative space?
500
An important architectural development was the use of this construction technique in which a long stone or wooden beam is placed horizontally across upright posts. Ex: Greek Parthenon
What is post-and-lintel?
500
Leonardo Da Vinci, an artist of the High Renaissance created this famous painting (Used the Sfumato tecnhique).
What is the Mona Lisa.
500
The Nok Civilizations was part of which ancient Civilization? Examples:
What is the ancient African Civilization?
500
The Romans developed ______ as a building material, which they used in building aqueducts, great baths, and other public works projects.
What is concrete?
