Elements & Principles
Vocabulary
Mediums & Processes
Themes & Concepts
Themes & Concepts 2
100
This element is the basis of all drawing; it organizes the visible world.
What is line?
100
This is the art of hand letting or handwriting.
What is calligraphy?
100
Every paint consists of these two things.
What is pigment and binder?
100
This type of diety symbolizes life, death, fertility, and creation.
What is Mother Goddess?
100
This term means "one god".
What is monotheism?
200
Background, middle-ground, and foreground create the illusion of what element?
What is space?
200
Titian's Venus of Urbino is an example of this popular art convention.
What is nude?
200
This drawing by Kathe Kollwitz uses this type of burnt wood to achieve dark values.
What is charcoal?
200
This artist created controversial black and white photographs that explored identity, beauty, and LGBT subcultures.
Who is Robert Mappelthorpe?
200
This prehistoric monument is an example of community art and is also believed to be some sort of large sun dial.
What is Stonehenge?
300
(Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth) The woman in the foreground is the center of activity, otherwise known as what?
What is focal point?
300
This is the understanding of how colors relate to each other and their psychological effects.
What is color theory?
300
This is an example of which early form of photography?
What is cyanotpe?
300
This type of art uses living organisms.
What is bioart?
300
This type of sculpture shows a rider mounted on a horse to show authority and power.
What is an equestrian statue?
400
Symmetry and asymmetry are examples of this principle of art.
What is balance?
400
This is art that promotes an ideology or cause.
What is propaganda?
400
This is the original point from which multiples are derived.
What is a matrix?
400
This is the belief of the destruction of icons, usually religious ones.
What is iconoclasm?
400
This painting by Audrey Flack is an example of a popular painting convention that reminds the viewer of death.
What is vanitas? (What is memento mori)
500
The Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio is an example of this extreme form of value.
What is chiaroscuro?
500
Motoi Yamamoto's salt labyrinth's use salt and community participation as symbols for the circle of life. What is the term that describes the use of symbols and images to convey meaning?
What is symbolism?
500
What is the popular process for ceramics pictured here?
What is throwing?
500
This movement was a result of The Great Migration and created a cultural boom among African Americans in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
This 1960's mural movement used community art to advocate for social justice.
What is the Chicano Mural Movement?
600
This quilt by Deborah Coates is an example of this principle of design.
What is pattern? What is motif?
600
This is a pose in sculpture where the figure creates a slight 'S' shape; the bottom half twists away from the top half.
What is contrapposto?
600
Crafts become separated from fine art during this period of "re-birth".
What is the Renaissance?
600
In the Air by Teresa Margolles uses this strange substance to remind the viewers of death, crime, and corruption.
What is mortuary water?
600
This term refers to the deliberate incorporation of material created by others
What is appropriation?