Elements of Design
2D v. 3D
Colors
Art Periods
Still Life
100
A path of a dot through space!
What is a line?
100
Nearer shapes and forms overlap, or partly cover, those meant to appear farther away.
What is overlapping?
100
What the eye sees when light is reflected off an object.
What is color?
100
It presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news.
What is pop art?
100
A work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on).
What is still life?
200
How things feel, or look as though they might feel if touched.
What is texture?
200
The distance objects are made smaller with objects that are up close.
What is size?
200
These are mixed together in different combinations to create all other hues. (Red, Yellow, Blue)
What are primary colors?
200
A genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
What is photorealism?
200
These pencils are softer and darker.
What are B pencils?
300
The degree of lightness or darkness
What is value?
300
When distant objects are placed higher up in the picture, and closer ones are placed lower down.
What is placement?
300
What you get when you mix two primary colors. (Yellow + Blue = Green)
What are secondary colors?
300
An art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.
What is land art?
300
These pencils are harder and lighter.
What are H pencils?
400
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
What is space?
400
Added to closer objects and less to those of distance.
What is detail?
400
A primary color mixed with a secondary.
What are intermediate colors?
400
It is influenced by the theory of "Deconstruction", which is a form of semiotic analysis.
What is deconstructivism?
400
The placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work.
What is composition?
500
Line, color, shape, form, space, and texture.
What are the six elements of color?
500
Empty spaces between the shapes or forms in two and three dimensional artwork. It will affect the viewer's reaction to the work. A small amount of this in a piece makes the work look busy. A lot of it can express calm, peace, or even loneliness.
What is negative space?
500
Colors opposite on the color wheel.
What are complementary schemes?
500
A phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.
What is an art period?
500
Focus on what you see, not what you think your level is. Observe the distance between objects.
How do you draw still life?
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