Art Elements
Design Principles
Colors
Art Categories and vocabulary
Art Careers and techniques
100
Symmetrical, Asymmetrical and radial are all examples of this design principle.
What is balance?
100
The use of one color in a piece of artwork, along with black and white.
What is Monochromatic?
100
This category(genre) of art work is also called an outdoor scene.
What is a landscape?
100
This Artist repeats images with a stamping technique.
What is a Printmaker?
200
This is another word for the artist's material(s)
What is medium or media(pl)
200
When this is done correctly the whole piece of artwork appears to work well together as one piece.
What is Unity?
200
Opposite colors. These 3 color sets are located diagonally across from each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
200
This is the word for random things used to create a sculpture.
What are found objects?
200
This Artist is the designer of homes and other buildings.
What is an Architect?
300
When a drawing is made from just line. These are called contour lines. Name this kind of drawing.
What is contour drawing?
300
This design principle is usually associated with music but can be found in art work when the art elements are repeated in a consistent way.
What is rhythm?
300
These colors are located next to each other on the color wheel and blend harmoniously with each other.
What are analogous colors?
300
This is a short phrase that means perspective.
What is point of view?
400
A quick warm up exercise using scribbled lines to create the figure instead of an outline.
What is gesture drawing?
400
The focal point is the first place your eye goes when you look at a painting. It is made STAND OUT more than any other part of the picture. This is an example of which design principle.
What is emphasis?
400
Black added to a color.
What is a shade?
400
The illusion of depth is created on a flat surface by an image partially covering other images.
What is overlapping?
400
These 2 sculpture techniques involve adding or taking away the art medium.
What are additive and subtractive methods?
500
The composition is the word for the whole piece of artwork. What are the 2 kinds of space that are found in the whole composition?
What is What are positive and negative space?
500
Size and placement relationships that artist tries to make accurate when doing observational drawing. This design principle can is similar to ratios in math.
What is proportion?
500
The 3 sets of complementary colors.
What are Red and Green; Blue and Orange and Yellow and Violet?
500
A picture of a person.
What is a portrait?
500
This sculpture techniques involve building art work from smaller parts.
What is assemblage?
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