Elements/ Principles of Art
Materials/Process
Color
Art Appreciation
Miscellaneous
100

A categorized principle of art described as radial, symmetrical and asymmetrical.

What are the types of balance?

100

The material artists use to create visual elements in any work of art.

What is media or medium?

100

This is the lightness or darkness of a hue often used to show highlights and shadows of an object.

 

What is value?

100

A work of art that is painted as it looks.

What is realism or realistic?

100

The element of art that can be described as geometric or organic.

What is shape?

200

An element of art where the artist repeats a series of colors, lines, shapes or symbols to depict a type of rhythm in a composition.

What is pattern or repetition?

200

The sculptor must understand this clay process in order to build successfully in ceramics. 

What are the clay stages?

200

This is the group of colors on the color wheel that make up all of the other colors within the wheel.

What the primary colors?

200

The process of enlarging an image with accuracy like the artist Chuck Close.

What is gridding?

200

A liquid slurry mixture of clay and water used to stick 2 pieces of clay together. 

What is Slip?

300

Another word for a focal point in a work of art.

What is emphasis?

300

The painting medium that is transparent and used in layers to develop depth.

What is watercolor?

300

These colors are made only by mixing 2 neighboring primary colors.

What are the secondary colors?

300

The simple outline of an object by the use of line.

What is contour line?

300

Clay that has been fired twice and is glass-like.

What is glaze ware?

400

A principle of art demonstrated when everything in a composition feels and looks like it belongs together.

What is Unity or Harmony?

400

The manipulation of clay to remove air bubbles.

What is wedging?

400

A painter will mix a complementary pair of colors to make this hue.

What is brown or neutral?

400

Art created for the purpose of practical use as well as visual design.

What is functional art?

400

proper use of size of objects in relation to each other depending on one's perspective.

What is Proportion?

500

A principle of art depicting a difference or juxtaposition in colors, line, ideas etc. creating visual excitement and interest.

What is contrast or variety?

500

The arrangement of an artwork based on the thoughtful organization of the elements of art.

What is composition?

500

This refers to the saturation of strength of a color.

What is intensity?

500

A style of art that is bold in color and often celebrates well known objects, people and images. 

What is pop art?

500

The artist sues a variety of materials in a work of art, resulting in layers of color, shape, texture, etc.. 

What is Mixed media?

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