Elements of Art
Principles of Art
Artists, Etc.
Color
Vocabulary
100

This is an element that is three-dimensional.

What is form?

100

This is a difference between visual elements.

What is contrast?

100

This is a type of free form pattern making that is used as a meditative art form. 

What is a zentangle?

100

This is the term for an artwork using only one color with all of its' tints and shades.

What is monochromatic?

100

The arrangement of elements within a piece of art.

What is a composition?

200

This is the element referring to the lightness or darkness of grays or colors.

What is value?

200

The repetition of elements in an artwork, such as lines, shapes, and colors.

What is pattern?
200

These are Picasso's two famous painting periods.

What are the Blue Period and the Rose Period?

200

This is how you mix tertiary colors.

What is mixing a primary color with a secondary next to it?

200

This is the technique of gluing cut paper to a surface.

What is collage?

300

This term refers to the thinness or thickness of a line.

What is line weight?

300

The distribution of visual weight in an artwork.

What is balance?

300

This is a Colombian street muralist who worked with vibrant colors and shapes.

Who is Stinkfish?

300

This is the term for colors that are next to each other or near each other on the color wheel.

What is analogous?

300

This is the watercolor technique we used for the background of our skeleton artworks. 

What is monoprinting?

400

These are colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel.

What are complementary colors?

400

A similarity of visual elements.

What is unity?

400

This artist started the Fauvist Movement, working with bright, expressive colors.

Who is Henri Matisse?

400

This is a color scheme using blues, violets, and greens.

What is a cool color scheme?

400

This is the term for adding a medium tone to your subject BEFORE adding additional value. (HINT: We added this to our skeletons.)

What is a ground? 

500

This is the open area between and around objects in a piece of art.

Negative space.

500

When one section of an artwork attracts more visual attention it is called this.

What is emphasis?

500

This is the type of art form created in different cultures and used to promote spiritual balance and peace. 

AND 

This is the kind of specific BALANCE this type of art displays. (You must answer both correctly.)

What is a mandala?

What is radial balance?

500

These are the three pairs of complementary colors on the color wheel.

What are Red+Green, Blue+Orange, and Violet+Yellow?

500

These are all 6 tertiary colors!

What are red-violet, red-orange, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange?

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