Elements of ART
This element of art can be defined with a dot that travels leaving a path
What is a Line?
These types of colours lie opposite on the colour wheel.
Name two artists from the Renaissance time period to create a sculpture of the David.
Hint* One is in bronze and one is in marble.
Who are Donatello and Michelangelo?
What is the name of the artist who gets into trouble and fights at taverns and the streets and always got in trouble with the law that he wandered from city to city?
Who is Caravaggio?
This painting technique involves creating a gradation from one colour to the next.
What is, Smooth blend technique?
This element of art has two dimensions, height and width.
What is a Shape?
These colours create all the other colours on the colour wheel.
What are Primary Colours?
Name three artists who painted during the Early Renaissance
Masaccio
Botticelli
Donatello
Who was the first woman to make a significant contribution to the Baroque period?
Who is Artemesia Gentileschi?
This painting technique involves applying the paint in a thick manner.
What is, impasto?
This element of art refers to the lightness or darkness of a colour.
What is Value?
These colours lie side by side on the colour wheel.
What are Analogous colours?
Name three of the artists who painted in the High Renaissance
Who are Leonardo, Michelangelo & Raphael?
Who painted The Girl With The Pearl Earring?
Who is, Vermeer?
This painting technique involves very little, if any water and creates whispy marks on the surface of a painting.
What is Dry brush?
This element of art refers to the tactile quality of a surface, either simulated or actual.
What is Texture?
What are secondary colours?
Name the four top breakthroughs of the Renaissance.
What are Oil on Canvas, Linear Perspective, Chiaroscuro and Pyramidal configuration?
In the Baroque era, arists used __________ and shadow to achieve maximum emotional impact and drama in their work.
What is, Light?
This painting technique involves using tape to block off areas of the surface so that they are untouched by the paint.
What is Masking?
This element of art can be flat, shallow or deep; two-dimensional or three-dimensional; negative or positive. What am I?
These colours on the colour wheel are created by mixing a primary and secondary colour together.
What are tertiary colours?
Jan Van Eyck was a painter during the Renaissance. His paintings were highly realistic, and included extreme detail. Name one of his paintings.
What is, The Arnolfini Wedding.
This artist painted, "The Nightwatch". Arguably the world's greatest painting.
Hint* In his later career, his wife died (after already loosing three children) and he stopped painting portraits.
Who is Rembrandt?
This technique involves a great deal of water and a little ACRYLIC paint.
*Hint* It is NOT a wash!
What is, a Glaze?