Elements
The type of perspective used in Leonardo DaVinci's The Last Supper.
What is one point linear perspective.
The process of organizing the formal elements of art into a unified composition
What is design?
It holds the pigments together.
What is the binder?
Encaustic's binder.
What is wax?
The appearance and meaning of a work of art.
What is form and content.
A color's brightness or dullness
What is intensity or saturation?
The area of a composition that our eye is drawn to.
What is the area of emphasis?
The drawing process that uses a stylus of gold or silver.
What is metalpoint?
A painting medium that must use a plaster support.
What is Fresco?
A temporary, three dimensional work of art that was intended for a specific space.
What is an installation?
Yellow's compliment
What is violet?
The principle that deals with visual weight in a composition
What is balance?
Ink diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas.
What is a wash?
Opaque watercolor.
What is gouache?
A work of art that shows no reference to the natural world of images.
What is non representational.
The element most closely related to surface quality
What is texture?
A composition that is exactly the same on the right and left.
What is symmetrical balance?
A drawing medium that consists of a pigment with a waxy binder.
What is a crayon?
Thin layers of oil paint.
What is a glaze?
The medium where an artist might dodge and burn.
What is photography?
Art that moves.
What is kinetic?
The size relationship between the parts of a whole in a composition.
What is proportion?
The plant that the word "paper" was derived from.
What is papyrus?
A painting with three panels.
What is a tryptych?
A three dimensional work of art that is intended to be viewed only from the front.
What is relief?