Mixing Colors
Color Vocabulary
Piet Mondrian
Jackson Pollock
Art Styles and Tools
200

Red + white

What is pink?

200

This word describes how bright or dull a color is

What is intensity?

200

Mondrian painted this way to show balance and harmony

What is using symmetry and simple colors?

200

Pollock painted with the canvas in this position

What is laying flat on the floor?

200

This art tool holds and mixes your paint

What is a palette?

400

Blue + orange

What is brown?

400

A color that is not bright and looks soft

What is muted?

400

The movement Mondrian was part of

What is De Stijl?

400

Pollock believed this was more important than making things look real

What is expressing emotions?

400

The name for artwork made only with lines and shapes

What is geometric art or line art?

600

Yellow + purple

What is a dull brown or gray?

600

Colors like red, orange, and yellow that feel energetic

What are warm colors?

600

Mondrian's art avoided these types of lines

What are diagonal or curved lines?

600

One reason Pollock’s work was criticized at first

What is it looked messy or unplanned?

600

An artist's personal way of expressing ideas in art

What is style?

800

The color you get from mixing a secondary and a primary color?

What is a tertiary color?

800

This group of colors is made by mixing one primary with one secondary

What are tertiary colors?

800

This is the meaning of “Neoplasticism” in Mondrian's style

What is “new art” with simple forms and pure color?

800

Pollock’s painting style inspired this later form of art

What is performance or action-based art?

800

Artists use this tool to dry their paint faster

What is a fan or heat gun?

1000

Mixing black and white creates this color

What is gray

1000

The opposite of a tint

What is a shade?

1000

The name of one of Mondrian’s most famous paintings

What is Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow?

1000

This famous museum holds many of Pollock’s works

What is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?

1000

The surface Pollock used that most painters didn’t

What is the floor or ground?

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