Elements of Design
Principles of Design
Artists
Art Vocabulary
Art History
100

This art element is an identifiable path created by a point moving in space.

What is Line?

100

This art principle defines an area of an artwork that the artist wants to be the focal point.

What is Emphasis?

100

The artist known for painting the Starry Night.

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

100

A tint is made by adding this to a color.

What is white?

100

This Egyptian God of funerary practices and care of the dead is represented by a jackal.

Who was Anubis?

200

Two types of this art element are geometric and organic.

What is shape?

200

3 Types of this art principle are Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, and Radial.

What is Balance?

200

The artist best known for painting the Mona Lisa.

Who is Leonardo DaVinci?

200

These colors are opposites on the color wheel.

What are complementary colors?

200

The writing used by the Ancient Egyptians.

What are hieroglyphs?

300

The 3 primary ones are red, blue and yellow.

What is color?

300

It is created by repeating or echoing the visual elements (such as line, shape, color, form, texture) in a recurring arrangement.

What is Pattern?

300

The name for the anonymous street artist whose spray painted art works have appeared on walls all over the world.

Who is Banksy?

300

The technique used by artists to create the illusion of depth using value.

What is Shading?

300

This PreColumbian civilization was known for making a stone calendar.

Who are the Aztecs?

400

The surface quality of an object that we sense through touch.  

What is Texture?

400

This principle is used when showing opposite colors, opposite shapes, or other opposite elements of design.

What is Contrast?

400

This artist liked to make artwork of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup cans. 

Who is Andy Warhol?

400

Refers both to the paper used by ancient Egyptians and the plant from which they made this material.

What is Papyrus?

400

The Incas used llamas for carrying goods, for providing meat and for this other purpose. 

What is weaving wool for clothing?

500

This art element can be shown with overlapping, size, shading and linear perspective.

What is Space?

500

Refers to the path the eye moves over a design.

What is Movement?

500

This New York City street artist began his career creating chalk drawings in the subway.

Who is Keith Haring.

500

The name for the technique used to transfer a design to another surface. 

What is graphite transfer?

500

The largest PreColumbian civilization. 

Who were the Inca?

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