Color
This color scheme uses various tints and hues of one color.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
The path of a moving point.
What is line?
What is a figure?
This element of art refers to the relative lightness or darkness.
What is Value?
In this painting the vanishing point can be found just behind the head of the figure of Jesus.
Where is the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper?
These harmonies combine colors that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
The outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms.
What is an outline?
Shapes that suggest forms found in nature.
What are organic shapes?
This type of photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors but captures the values of the colors.
What is a black-and-white photograph?
What is The Madonna of the Meadows?
This technique uses dots of color to create a specific optical effect.
What is pointillism?
The outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms.
A necessary feature of pattern.
What is repetition?
An Italian term that means "light-dark"
What is Chiaroscuro?
This technique is illustrated in Elizabeth Catlett's Sharecropper to suggest value.
What is hatching?
This pigment was historically more expensive than gold and only available to the wealthiest artists and patrons.
What is ultramarine blue?
Work of the Nazca people of southern Peru that forms the shape of a humming bird.
What are the Nazca Lines?
The gray arching area of the background surrounding the figure in Rosalba Carriera's portrait painting of Gustavus Hamilton is a good example of this.
What is negative shape?
This term describes the use of light and shadow to give a three-dimensional appearance to shapes in a two-dimensional work.
What is the term model?
Art that moves.
What is kinetic art?
A color lighter than the hue's normal value.
What is tint?
Jean-Antoine Watteau created this using a sort of dotted line of amorous couples in The Emarkation for Cythera.
What is implied line?
The shape we detach and focus on.
What is a figure?
Boys on the beach by Joaquin Sorolla is a great example of this.
What is represented light?
These two basic visual cues are used to imply depth in the 18th- century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats
What is position and overlap.