Elements of Art
This element is 3 dimensional with length, height, and width.
What is form?
The distribution of visual weight ( 3 types )
What is asymmetrical, symmetrical, and radial balance?
Break down the object into these to make it easier to draw.
What are basic shapes?
This guide shows the relationships between colors and how to mix them
What is the color wheel?
We have over 6,000 journal pages from this artist.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This element is the path created by a point moving in space. (A dot that went for a walk)
What is line?
The amount of difference between the elements of a work of art.
What is contrast?
A blending stump of rolled paper is called this.
What is a tortillon?
This famous street artist's real identify is unknown even when he shredded his own work live at an auction.
Who is Banksy?
This element is the light reflected off an object. Sometimes we use the word HUE to describe it.
What is color?
This principle of design grabs your attention and makes you look at a specific area of the artwork
What is emphasis?
"Line quality" refers to this attribute of a line.
What is thickness or thinness?
Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
The artist believed to have the condition of 'Synesthesia' where he could see sound and hear color.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
This element has to do with the surface quality of an object. It can be implied or actual.
What is texture?
This principle of design makes your eye follow a path through the artwork.
What is movement?
Graphite pencils that are meant to make lighter marks have this letter before it which describes a specific quality of the graphite.
What is 'H' for hard?
3 colors equally spaced from each other on the color wheel.
What is triadic?
Founder of the 'Fauves' ("wild beasts") art movement; he is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century along with Pablo Picasso.
Who is Henri Matisse?
The area surrounding (negative) or inside (positive) an object and can show the illusion of depth.
What is space?
This principle of design creates "oneness". It makes the artwork feel complete.
What is unity?
Creating different values with lines that curve in the direction of the object; describing it's form.
What is cross contour hatching?
Using the two colors on either side of the complement to the key color.
What is split complementary?
This artist started as the graffiti artist "SAMO" and later achieved a successful art career working the likes of Andy Warhol and David Bowie before his untimely death at the age of 27.
Who is Jean Michel Basquiat?