Lines
What type of lines express nervous or awkward movement or action in a composition?
jagged line
What are the primary colors?
Red, blue, and yellow
If the forms in a painting seem heavy and solid, allowing nothing to penetrate them, they are described as ______ forms.
Closed
________ in art refers to the height from which the viewer sees objects.
Eye Level
If the visual "weight" on both sides of a picture is about equal, the picture is said to have...
Balance
Lines that are suggested without actually having been drawn or incorporated are...
implied lines
The name of a color is its...
Hue
Positive
Which type of texture uses patterns within a design or figure to enhance a concept or an object and typically appears in abstract art?
Invented Texture
________ is a type of movement that incorporates pattern and repeating motifs to imply feelings of motion and mobility.
Visual Rhythm
What kind of lines do artists often use to create the effect of shadows in a drawing?
Crosshatching / Hatching
The lightness or darkness of greys and colors in a design is called
Value
A shape that appears on top of a background shapes is a ______.
Figure
In three-dimensional art what term refers to the area that has been filled with objects that have real physical presence?
Positive Space
When the parts of a composition are organized so that each side of a vertical axis contains similar, but not identical, shapes or forms, the composition is said to be...
approximately symmetrical
What type of implied line create a line for the viewers eyes to follow as they view an artwork?
Line of Sight
Because it consists of tints and shades of a single hue, which color combination is most at risk of creating an uninteresting composition?
Monochromatic Combination
The tendency to see shapes as unchanging, regardless of the angle at which you see it is called...
Shape constancy
Textures that are created by artists in order to give the illusion of certain surface qualities and that attempt to reproduce similar visual characteristics that objects possess in the real world are called...
Simulated Textures
_______ is a design principle that helps make a design feel complete and helps move the viewer's eyes through the composition using color, texture, repetition, or other methods.
Unity
Descriptive lines that define an object's outer edge or silhouette are called...
Outlines
A banana look yellow because....
it only reflects yellow light.
Squares, triangle, rectangles are examples of ______________.
Geometric Shapes
How can the visible texture of an object vary?
By the amount of light it recieves
___________ is achieved by introducing differences in the elements of a composition and increasing visual interest.
Variety