Elements of Art
1. This is an element that is two-dimensional (when lines connect).
2. This is an element that is three-dimensional.
1. What is shape?
2. What is form?
This is an extreme difference between visual elements.
What is contrast?
This artist created Cubism, and had a famous Blue Period and Rose Period.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
1. This is the term for adding white to a color.
2. This is the term for adding black to a color.
3. This is the term for adding gray to a color.
1. tint
2. shade
3. tone
1. The arrangement of elements within a piece of art.
2. This is the term for art that tells a story.
1. What is a composition?
2. What is narrative art?
1. This is the organizational system for arranging values, typically from light or dark.
2. This is a technique of showing value using pen and ink.
1. What is a value scale?
2. What is hatching and crosshatching?
The repetition of elements in an artwork, such as lines, shapes, and colors.
What is pattern?
1. This is a famous street artist who famously shredded his own artwork during a live auction.
2. This is a famous Colombian street artist who painted mural portraits using colorful shapes.
1. Who is Banksy?
2. Who is Stinkfish?
1. This is how you mix tertiary colors.
2. Name 3 tertiary colors.
1. What is mixing a primary color with a secondary next to it?
2. blue-violet, blue-green, red-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green
1. This is balance that is equal on both sides.
2. This is balance that is unequal on both sides.
3. This is balance formed around a circle.
1. What is symmetrical?
2. What is asymmetrical?
3. What is radial?
1. This term refers to the thinness or thickness of a line.
2. This term is for the KIND OF LINE that has variation in thinness and thickness.
1. What is line weight?
2. What is contour line?
The distribution of visual weight in an artwork.
What is balance?
1. This artist created Pop Art.
2. This artist started the Fauvist Movement, working with bright, expressive colors.
1. Who is Andy Warhol?
2. Who is Henri Matisse?
This is the term for an artwork using only one color with all of its' tints and shades.
What is a monochromatic?
1. The term for putting dark values next to light values to show the edges of objects (we did this using colored pencils).
2. The term for the intensity of color.
1. What is a counter change?
2. What is saturation?
1. These are colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel.
2. These are colors that are NEXT to each other on the color wheel.
1. What are complementary colors?
2. What are analogous colors?
A similarity of visual elements.
What is unity?
This artist painted non-objective paintings that were inspired by songs.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
1. This is a color scheme using blues, violets, and greens.
2. This is a color scheme using reds, oranges, and yellows.
1. What is a cool color scheme?
2. What is a warm color scheme?
1. The term for applying pressure and layering colored pencil until you cannot see the paper through the color?
2. The term for gluing cut pieces of paper to a surface.
1. What is burnishing?
2. What is collage?
What is the OPEN OR EMPTY area around, above, between, within, or below objects?
Negative space.
When one section of an artwork attracts more visual attention it is called this.
What is emphasis?
This artist famously worked in large gridded portraits, despite having face blindness.
Who is Chuck Close?
These are the three pairs of opposite colors on the color wheel.
What are Red+Green, Blue+Orange, and Violet+Yellow?
What is the term for when one sense is perceived by another sense? (i.e. you can "see" sound)
What are synesthesia?