Color
Elements/ Principles
Subject Matter
Medium
History
100

The Primary colors

What is Blue, Red, and Yellow?

100

The lightness or darkness of a hue

What is Value?

100

An artwork consisting of the natural world, the natural scenery of earth.

What is a landscape?

100

A carbon based material that is used for drawing. it is most commonly found in pencils and it is used to create various lines, tones, values, and textures on paper.

What is graphite?

100

Artist that painted the Mona Lisa

Who is Leonardo DaVinci?

200

The secondary colors.

What is Orange, Green, and Purple?

200

The surface quality of an artwork, invokes the viewers sense of feel or touch.

What is texture?

200

An artwork that is a visual representation of a person or group of people.

What is a portrait?

200

A dry, carbon based material that is made from burnt organic materials, such as wood.

What is Charcoal?

200

The oldest known recorded form of artwork.

What are cave paintings?

300

A pair of colors that sit directly across from each other on the color wheel.

What is complementary colors?

300

The overall size of an object/ subject within the artwork.

Scale

300

An artwork depicting an arrangement of inanimate, non-living, ordinary objects.

What is a still life?

300

A colorful, waxy drawing material that is used to deposit color onto paper. It can be blended and layered together to create a vibrant, detailed image.

What is colored pencils?

300

A Dutch, Post-Impressionist painter known for his bold colors, expressive brushwork, and contoured forms.

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

400

The primary colors in printmaking.

What is Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow?

400

The juxtaposition of different elements in an artwork, such as light vs. dark.

What is Contrast?

400

An artwork that does not tempt to represent reality, it focuses on the elements and principles of art.

What is abstraction?

400

A paint made with a water-soluble binder that is thinned out with water to create a transparent color. It is used on a thick, porous paper.

What is Watercolor paint?

400

Period of European artwork created from the 14th century to the 17th century. Work features the development of linear perspective, anatomical accuracy, and a wide range of subjects.

What is the Renaissance?

500

The science and art of using color, encompassing the principles and guidelines of how colors interact their effects on human perception and emotion, and their practical applications in design and art.

What is Color Theory?

500

The wholeness or completeness in an artwork, where all components work together.

What is Unity?

500

An artwork that portrays a living person who poses for an artist to serve as a live reference for art making.

What is a model subject?

500

A slow drying paint that is made of pigment particles in a drying oil binder. Once dried, the paint is tough, waterproof, and long lasting.

What is oil paint?

500

Period of European artwork created from the 5th to the 15th century that consisted of strong religious and spiritual influences. The artwork emphasized spiritual narratives and symbolism over realism.

What is Medieval art?

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