Mixing Colors
Color Vocabulary
Piet Mondrian
Jackson Pollock
Art Styles & Tools
100

Red + blue

What is purple?

100

A color mixed with white

What is a tint?

100

The country where Piet Mondrian was born

What is the Netherlands?

100

This artist was known for splattering and dripping paint

Who is Jackson Pollock?

100

A flat tool used to spread paint

What is a brush or palette knife?

200

Blue + yellow

What is green?

200

A color mixed with black

What is a shade?

200

The colors Mondrian used most in his art

What are red, yellow, and blue?

200

Pollock was part of this art movement

What is Abstract Expressionism?

200

A modern art style that doesn't show real objects

What is abstract art?

300

Red + yellow

What is orange?

300

Red, yellow, and orange are these types of colors

What are warm colors?

300

Mondrian often used these types of lines

What are straight lines (or horizontal and vertical lines)?

300

Pollock used these tools instead of brushes

What are sticks or household objects?

300

The type of shape Mondrian used most

What are geometric shapes (rectangles)?

400

These three colors cannot be made by mixing

What are primary colors?

400

Blue, green, and purple are these types of colors

What are cool colors?

400

Mondrian’s art style that used simple shapes and colors

What is Neoplasticism?

400

The method Pollock used to make art

What is drip painting or action painting?

400

This is what you call the surface you paint on

What is a canvas?

500

All three primary colors mixed together make this color

What is brown?

500

The name for colors across from each other on the color wheel

What are complementary colors?

500

Mondrian’s paintings look like a combination of these two things

What are grids and rectangles?

500

The reason Pollock moved around his canvas while painting

What is to express motion or energy (or freedom of movement)?

500

A famous painting method that lets paint drip or splatter

What is action painting?

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