The Elements of Art
A dot in motion
What is a line?
The repetition of line and shape on a surface.
What is pattern?
This artist is well known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo?
On a cafeteria wall, da Vinci painted this iconic painting of a specific event in Christ's life.
What is The Last Supper?
Art depicting mostly inanimate things, usually with hidden meanings
What is a still life?
An element of art that refers to the lightness and darkness of an object
What is value?
The implied action in a work of art.
What is movement?
This Renaissance man was an inventor as well as a painter who wrote backwards in his journals.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This Leonardo Da Vinci painting is perhaps the most famous female portrait in art history
What is the Mona Lisa?
The depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests.
What is landscape painting?
Pigmented hues which can be dull or bright or saturated.
What is color?
A large difference between two objects such as the difference between light and dark.
What is contrast?
This Northern European artist painted group portraits like The Anatomy Lesson or The Night Watch.
Who is Rembrandt?
In 1665, Vermeer painted this mysterious and exotic fictional portrait of a woman in yellow and blue.
What is Girl with a Pearl Earring?
An artistic depiction of a person as the main subject matter and focus.
What is a portrait?
The area around or behind an object, whether negative or positive.
What is space?
Stability and structure to a design based on the placement of your elements, whether it's symmetrical or asymmetrical.
What is Balance?
This Dutch Master painter is known for painting the exotic Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Who is Vermeer?
This Rococo painting showing a woman in a fanciful pink dress, moving through the air, represents infidelity.
What is the Swing?
A three-dimensional representative form carved from stone or wood, or cast with metal or plaster.
What is a sculpture?
This element refers to tactile qualities. It can be actual or implied.
What is texture?
The spaces between repeating visual elements such as alternating, flowing, random, regular, and progressive.
What is Rhythm?
This Neoclassical artist and French Revolutionist painted the famous Oath of the Horatii which set Neoclassicism in motion.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?
Artemisia Gentileschi painted this gruesome Biblical scene depicting a woman about to drive a tent peg through a man's head.
What is Jael and Sisera?
A painting done rapidly on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling
What is fresco?