Any area enclosed by a line.
Shape
Repeated use of an element or of several elements.
Repetition
What was the primary influence in Canadian Art in the early part of the 20th c?
Canadian Art strongly influenced by a European sensibility and style.
These are the basic building blocks of any artwork. The "tools" artists use to create.
The Elements of Art
What rule includes dividing the composition into thirds, vertically and horizontally, place the key elements along these lines or at the junctions of them.
The Rule of Thirds
Any mark made on a surface by a mounding point to another point.
Line
Using an assortment of elements.
Variety
Where did serious art students go to study in the early part of the 20th c?
Paris or London
What type of art is described by the following: Can be highly realistic or stylized. Uses imagery that can be recognized from the real world.
Representational Art
What is it called when, design elements in the picture to lead the eye from one of the focal points to others. Use the corners to bring the viewer into the picture or keep the eyes from moving off the page.
Moving the Eye
Has width, depth, and height
Form
The focus of the artwork. The main idea should standout and draw the viewers attention.
Emphasis
How many members were in the group in total over their 13 years together?
10
True of False: Non Representational Art does not depict objects from the real world.
True
What rule consists of having an odd number in the composition, three, five, or seven, rather than an even number, two, four, or six.
Rule of odds
Hue, Intensity, Value, and Temperature are the four properties of what element of art?
Colour
Organizing similar elements of art in a pleasing way that evokes a sense of completeness and consistency.
Unity
When did they begin calling themselves the Group of Seven?
By March 1920, they had begun referring to themselves as the Group of Seven.
True or False: The painting, The Jack Pine was created by Lawren Harris in 1917.
False, Tom Thomson created The Jack Pine in 1917.
True or False: Don’t have objects avoid each other.
True
The use of light and dark tones to convey to the viewer an objects mass or volume.
Value
Refers to showing unlikeness. Arranging different, opposite, or similar elements in an artwork.
Contrast
List three of the nine geographical areas the group painted in.
Algoma, Georgian Bay, the Laurentians, Nova Scotia, Lake Superior, Canadian Rockies, Arctic, Lower St. Lawrence, Georgian Bay.
Fill in the blank: The (blank) are how we organize the elements of art to create the artwork. They are the underlying structure to organize the elements.
The Principles of Design
True or False: Do cut objects in half on the edge of the page.
False